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Beep! Beep! Squish can't get enough of his awesome new video game Mitosis! (Mitosis is what happens when cells divide. Who says video games can't be educational?) In fact, he may even be obsessed! He plays at home...at school...even in his sleep! Are video games taking over Squish's life?! And can Squish's favorite comic book hero, Super Amoeba, stop the Creeping Black Mold that's taking over Small Pond?

Imagine a time before everyone stared at a screen; before fonts, icons, mice, and laser printers; before Apple and Microsoft.... But behind the scenes, Xerox engineers were dreaming and inventing the modern personal computer. Who were these people who changed the world, and why did corporate management just want to sell copiers and printers? Albert Cory was one of the engineers charged with making that dream a reality and unknowingly starting a revolution. Inventing the Future is based on the true story of the Xerox Star, the computer that changed everything.

In the afterlife, Henry has remained with the same group of teenagers, and he keeps wondering why. Soon, Henry learns that his new friends all possess unique skills that allow them to be noticed by the living. Is Henry's group kept isolated because of their abilities? If so, are they considered gifted, or seen only as a potential bad influence?

It's soccer season! But the Waterfleas (Hey, it could be worse - Okay, maybe it couldn't.) are getting pummelled game after game. Squish knows winning isn't everything, but it's something right? Can Squish turn the losing streak around when he becomes team captain? Will Pod figure out how to harness the power of lightning? And how can amoebas play soccer when they don't have any feet? Find out in the electrifyingly funny Squish, Book 4: Captain Disaster - saving the world, one cell at a time!

When Plum the peacock stumbles across a raccoon asking for help finding food on a gloomy day at the zoo, he is delighted to assist his new friend. But Scratch the raccoon doesn’t stop there. More and more of Scratch’s friends arrive, and soon the zoo is overrun by rowdy and rude raccoons. Though trouble might have found Plum, Plum has a plan to save the Athensville Zoo—and make a few new friends at the same time.

It looks like it’s going to be a great year for Marvin! He’s captain of the garbageball team at school, the Monstrocity Minotaurs, and he’s happy to be back with all of his friends for another season. But when the first few practices are roaring failures, Marvin starts to wonder if he’s really cut out for the job.

Matt is in trouble again with the law, except this time, he is unable to weasel his way out. When Will hears of Matt’s latest arrest, it pushes their strained relationship to the limit. As Matt’s impulsive behavior leads to further trouble, dark secrets begin to unravel. The boys’ cousin, Lilianna Miller, raises questions about her true ethnicity, and discovers that she is a Native American, stolen as a newborn. Raised in a wealthy family, she is sheltered by her overprotective adoptive father. But when her parents are murdered by a gang, Lilianna is bloodthirsty for revenge.

Nathan is an ordinary 15-year-old until he saves a girl from being mugged. Well, that and the fact that the AGENCY has recruited him to work for them in their child-spy division. Now he's being hunted by some seriously scary people. Everywhere he turns, Nathan is fighting for his life. When his grandfather is kidnapped, Nathan must track him down and help him escape. But what happens when Nathan finds out the people he's working for aren't as squeaky clean as he thought they were, and their secrets are just as dangerous as the person they claim to be saving Nathan from?

A high school scholarship student must kill the president as an act of environmental protection. Brilliant 18-year-old Ben Wallace didn’t set out to become a presidential assassin, but after a mind-altering experience, Ben discovers some facts about Earth’s rapid global warming, and none of it is good news. Now, Ben is on a dangerous trajectory, believing he must kill the President of the United States to save the planet. At his exclusive private school, Ben becomes a loner, self-isolated from the other students who appear - on Instagram, anyway - not to have a care in the world.

Henry Long doesn't have a heart. Since the Tragedies, he doesn't have much: just an annoying low-watt buzz from his makeshift transplant, skinny arms, and a dusty library attic from which he charts the slow progress of reconstruction in the Green Zone, the last habitable neighborhood of his troubled coastal city. While his parents work on making the Green Zone independent from a federal government that appears to have abandoned them, Henry himself feels increasingly left on his own.

Midwinter, a time of darkness, a time to release past sorrows... Lord Paethor, young and haunted, accepts a mission from his king: to retrieve the enchanted sword Farslayer - or die in the attempt.

Two linked stories by Vonda N. McIntyre: “Wings” and “The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn.” Alien people abandon their dying planet in a generation ship, but a few are left behind.“Wings” was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards.

Tyler Ford is a 13-year-old boy who's on a family vacation, stuck with his odd and irritating parents and his cool older brother. Tyler meets Eena, a girl who Tyler quickly realizes hides a strange mystery. After a midnight meeting that doesn't go at all the way he expected, Tyler realizes Eena's secrets are not just mysterious, but frightening. They are dangerous and supernatural, and thanks to Eena, he is involved whether he wants to be or not.

After saving their older brother, Evan, and being forced to leave the lives they knew on Earth, Devon, Lyle, and Lawrence train to become the leaders of Rema—a planet they've never even heard of.

Stories of a dragon raiding a local town have brought a young Isaiah the knight to defend the townspeople and bring glory to the kingdom. But a mystery surrounds this strange dragon, for which nothing could prepare our knight.

It’s 1985. For Janet, Dan, Matt, and Cassie, the internet is just some academic thing in universities. They’re engineers working at 3Com, building their lives in the new frontier of Silicon Valley. Everyone’s watching Microsoft and IBM nervously—will networking be just one more business that they own? A modern woman with means, Janet wades into the deep water of buying her first house, on her own, hiring a handsome contractor, Walt, to remodel. Meanwhile, Matt and his social climbing wife Miriam also hire Walt, on Janet’s recommendation.

In the summer of 1961, a Little League player’s joy of making the all-star team evaporates when his father, too busy with a girlfriend, misses his triumphant opening game, and his mother spirals into a bed-ridden depression. Then, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle move next door as they battle to break Babe Ruth's home run record.

Evan and Claire Jones are typical teenagers, forced to go with their parents to yet another boring museum... that is, until something extraordinary happens to make their day a little more than interesting. After following a strange little creature into a closed exhibit, Evan and his older sister, Claire, discover the Serpent's Ring, one of the magical relics formed from the shattered Mysticus Orb. Purely by accident, they have awakened its powers and opened a portal to Sagaas, land of ancient gods.

Look at My Happy Rainbow is my account of the first few years working in a kindergarten classroom, experiencing the day to day trials and tribulations of trying to see the world a little more through the eyes of a five-year-old.

Eleven-year-old Benny Feldman spends his days at Sieberling School obeying his number-one rule for surviving sixth grade: blend into the background. So when he signs up his klezmer band to play in the school talent show, his classmates are shocked. Teased by guitar superstar and former friend Jason Conroy, Benny vows to win the trophy and erase the embarrassing nickname that has haunted him since his disastrous debut performance in a first-grade Sabbath play.