RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. Cory's dance crew is counting on him for one last big competition before everyone heads off to different high schools, but everything starts falling apart when strict parents, failing grades, and a surprising new friendship pull him in every direction.

"Words are powerful,' Grandma told Justice. 'They can be used in powerful ways to do good or to do...

RIF Summer Camp: Reading Explorers Badge. One moment Daniel Redmayne is fast asleep, and the next, a failed dam is sending a wall of water straight toward his campsite. With their counselors gone and five kids completely alone in the Montana wilderness, survival becomes the only thing that matters.

The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the...

In 1854, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jennings, an African American schoolteacher, fought back when she was...

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. What would you do if the perfect science fair project suddenly came to life? In this illustrated novel, a lonely fifth grader named Maya discovers a forgotten homemade robot just when she needs a friend the most. With her best friends in a different class for the first time, Maya is on her own, and this unexpected robot companion might change everything. Could a robot be exactly the friend she never knew she needed?

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. Have you ever felt like you just don't fit in somewhere new? In this story, twelve-year-old Emmy moves to a new city and school, where she feels totally lost, until a coding class leads her to something unexpected.

Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes dreams of becoming a world-famous rapper that everyone calls Notorious D.O.G. But for now, he's just a Chicago fifth grader who's small for his age and afraid to use his voice.

RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. Amelia Bedelia is convinced that dance class is going to be the most boring thing ever, especially when she hears the words "ballet" and "leotard."

For a young Japanese-American boy sent to an internment camp during World War II, baseball becomes a...

Kunu is from the Penobscot Tribe located on Indian Island in Maine. They have a deep tradition in...

When their favorite swimming hole is ruined, a group of curious kids work together to find the cause...

Joe and Bob Switzer were very different brothers. Bob was a studious planner who wanted to grow up...

"The eventful life of Louis, a voiceless trumpeter swan, from hatching to contented fatherhood...

Explorers investigate places they have never been before. These explorers might take a while to make...

Right before Wavie's mother died, she gave Wavie a list of instructions to help her find her way in...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1973. Billy decides to participate in a bet, where he has to eat 15 worms supplied by his opponent. Though he can use any condiment he wants, they're still hard to get down.

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2015. "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell.

Ben Hunter has a miserable life -- M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-E! His sister will only talk to him through text...

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. When three mysterious creatures sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin across space and time to rescue her missing father, they discover a darkness on the planet Camazotz that threatens the entire universe. characters.

Stuart Little is a mouse, but he lives with a family of humans in New York City. They also have two...

RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. What if you could run away and live inside a museum? In From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Claudia and her brother Jamie secretly move into the Metropolitan Museum of Art—but their adventure turns into a mystery when they discover a statue no one can explain. To solve it, they must track down the mysterious Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler… and everything might change.

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1997. An adventure series featuring George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth-graders from Piqua, Ohio. They start a comic book series called Treehouse Comix Inc. Accidentally, their superhero, Captain Underpants, becomes real. Many adventures follow and many involve the cranky principal of their school, Mr. Krupp.

RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. Vashti stares at a blank piece of paper and thinks she can't make anything beautiful. What if one tiny dot could change everything? You won't believe where it takes her!