Kids Fiction

While on a family hunting trip, Adriana must find a way to get along with her obnoxious cousin Frankie. (7/8)

Forbidden to play board games by their mother, who suddenly disappears, twins Rhett and Nash learn their family has the ability to enter the world of any game they want -- a gift that comes with a high price -- and must break their mom's most important rule to save her from a vengeful game character who has taken her hostage. (7/8)

Perry and his troublemaking family's swindling ways keep them on a never-ending vacation full of cons and schemes, leaving him to wonder if it is too late to change his fate. (7/8)

Tacoma Jones loves working at her family's roadside diner, the Brake Fast, pouring coffee and serving eggs and muffins to truckers all day long. But tonight, she is finally going to break out her collection of cookbooks and prepare the best dinner the state of Washington has ever seen. But her excitement is dampened when she learns that today is one of Dad's bad days, when his depression makes it hard for him to get out of bed. Tacoma knows she can't fix her dad's depression. But what she can do is steal back his prized photograph of his second-best day from her nemesis, the nasty Crocodile Kyle--while also planning a dinner that is sure to brighten up his bad day. She just might need an accomplice or two to pull off the heist. (7/8)

The present is the last place James wants to be. Since his parents have separated, he's been living two different lives and neither of them add up to the great one he used to have. He thinks about his Top Six memories and wonders if he can go back. During National Science Week, James meets the enigmatic Yan, a girl who looks at the world with x-ray eyes, and discovers that time travel might be possible after all. The two budding scientists' quest to restore James's lost past brings them into contact with retro Australian Women's Weekly birthday cakes, old Commodore computers, chaotic rideshare vehicles of the future, and spacemen. But as they get closer to their goal, James is forced to consider that his favorite moments from his personal history may not be as perfect as he remembers them. (7/8)

A precocious student ambassador helps a former US president with an adventurous, educational mission in Zacatecas, Mexico, where rumors of a haunted mine are stopping his plans for urban development.--Publisher. (7/8)