Kids Fiction

First Cat, LOZ 4000, and the Moon Queen--encounter Captain Babybeard and his crew of swashbuckling pirates. After Captain Babybeard steals a treasure map from the Queen of the Moon, the notorious pirate sees nothing but piles of gold in his future. But a mutiny, led by his first mate, the Martian Pirate James Plantain, leaves Babybeard marooned on a deserted island. Betrayed by his crew, the little captain seeks an unlikely alliance...Will Captain Babybeard get revenge? Will First Cat, the Moon Queen, and LOZ 4000 recover their treasure map? Or will the moon fall into the hands of a nefarious banana? (2/3)

Still healing from an accident that almost killed her, Tawnypelt is eager to share the message she received from StarClan about a 'great peril' looming over the clans. But her vision is dismissed by her son and leader Tigerstar, leaving Tawnypelt with no choice but to take action on her own. Racked with guilt that he caused his father's death, Starlingpaw is determined to atone for his mistake. His chance comes when Tawnypelt warns him of a 'two-faced cat' intent on destroying the clans. Believing himself uniquely suited to find this cat and stop them, Starlingpaw seizes on the opportunity to prove that he is an asset--and not a liability--to SkyClan. Moonpaw is settling into her role as a Thunderclan apprentice, even as she continues to grapple with the voice in her head. But the more she tries to ignore the voice, the louder--and angrier--it grows. Meanwhile, Twolegs have set their sights on the Moonpool, preventing the Clans from reaching StarClan. Will the cats find a way to reach their ancestors before all is lost?

Casey Shield, a hacker who invented the Dynamax Simulator, and Henry Sword, a boy who repairs gear for Pokémon, both dream of entering the Galar region's Gym battles. For Casey, it's a chance to reunite with her lost Pokémon. For Henry, it's an opportunity to search for the fabled Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield. The time has come for the legendary Zacian and Zamazenta, as well as the Rusted Sword and Rusted Shield, to change into their true forms and prepare for the rematch to end all rematches... The conclusion of Sword & Shield happens now! How will the story end?!

Hip, hip, hooray! It's Hairiette's Birthday! With her glowy hair done and the perfect dress picked out, Hairiette is ready for her special seventh birthday present. But on the big day, there is no bike in sight! All she gets is a stinking barrette and comb. It looks like it isn't going to be a hip hip hooray day after all...until a class unit on imagination changes everything! Using the power of her imagination, Hairiette turns her boring birthday gifts into charmed objects that whisk her off to an enchanted place called Magic Nation where she can have hip hip hooray days every day! All she needs is a little creativity and the magic words, 'Razzle, Dazzle, Diddly, Do!' and soon the adventures begin! (2/3)

Nine-year-old Sparrow eagerly helps with her new neighbor's dog, Toby, a service-dog-in-training, but when her obsession with service dogs affects her focus in school, she must learn to accept help herself. (2/3)

Cosmo and his team are ready to test his new jetpack, but when it explodes, sending Cosmo into space with no hope of communicating with his companions, he's about to embark on the biggest adventure yet! Meeting aliens, destroyers, magicians, sewer mutants, and a friendly, slightly egg-like creature - countless whacky encounters await our brave space hero! (2/4)

Ten-year-old Madelyn discovers a magical world behind her home that desperately needs her help and holds the secrets to her own family legacy. (2/4)

When an asteroid unleashes a horde of alien monsters known as Bio-Titans, Earth must turn to a suit of extraterrestrial battle armor to save the day -- but there's just one catch. Because the only creature on the planet capable of turning it on... is an 11-inch-tall terrier named Holly. With the Bio-Titan threat escalating by the second, Holly and her scientist owner Sam will find their unique bond tested, as he trains his mischievous mutt to become not just man's best friend, but humanity's only hope. (2/4)

Twelve-year-old Jupiter Nettles finally gets into one of the Seven Schools of Magic--working hard but doubting her confidence--when an age-old enemy returns to exact revenge on the Seven Schools, leaving Jupiter to find the courage that has been within her all along. (2/4)

Hattie Mae hails from Seed County, North Carolina. She knows hard milking cows, plucking chickens, minding the garden. Her hands are made for manual labor--her feet for dirt--that is according to Lisa and some of the other girls at Miss Abigail's School for Exceptional Young Ladies in Philadelphia. Hattie could never be a doctor or a scientist or anyone worthy cause she's a hick from the South. Hattie is afraid they might be right. She sticks out like a sore thumb from the way she dresses to the way she eats to the way she carries herself. Hattie has more in common with the hundreds of Black folks pouring into the city looking for better opportunities away from Jim Crow's South. She doesn't belong and doubts that she ever will. (2/10)

For eleven-year-old Gao Sheng, home is the lush, humid jungles and highlands of Laos. Home is where she can roll down the grassy hill with her younger siblings after her chores, walk to school, and pick ripe peaches from her family's trees. But home becomes impossible to hold onto when the communist government takes over after U.S. troops pull out of the Vietnam War. The communists will be searching for any American allies, like Gao Sheng's father, a Hmong captain in the Lao Army who fought alongside the Americans against the Vietnamese. If he's caught, he'll be killed. As the adults frantically make plans - contacting family, preparing a route, and bundling up their silver and gold, Gao Sheng wonders if she will ever return to her beloved Laos and what's to become of her family now. Gao Sheng only knows that a good daughter doesn't ask questions or complain. A good daughter doesn't let her family down. Even though sometimes, she wishes she could be just a kid rolling down a grassy hill again. On foot, by taxi and finally in a canoe, Gao Sheng and her family make haste from the mountains to the capitol Vientiane and across the rushing Mekong River, to finally arrive at an overcrowded refugee camp in Thailand. As a year passes at the camp, Gao Sheng discovers how to rebuild home no matter where she is and finally find her voice. (2/10)

In the hot, gossipy town of Stony Lonesome, shy eleven-year old Willa interacts with others the only way that feels right to her -- the mail. She loves the mail so much that she hopes to become a mail carrier herself one day. But her dreams of delivering birthday cards, thank-you notes, and love letters come crashing down when she's mistaken for the notorious Two Gum Tilly, a bandit rumored to be stealing mail for as long as folks can recall. Now an outlaw herself, Willa realizes the only way to clear her name is to bring the real crook to justice. But when a chance encounter introduces her to the Gumshoe Gang, a group of runaways looking to right the wrongs of the letter-looting thief, she finds that human connection might be her only path to freedom. Can Willa clear her name and revive her dreams of postal glory, or has she stamped her last letter . . . forever? (2/10)

Ana Ramos may not have a dog of her own, but she does get to walk her neighbor's adorable pug, Osito. One day, at the park, Osito befriends another pug, Pancake, whose owner just happens to be a cute new boy named Calvin. When Calvin assumes that Osito belongs to Ana, she doesn't correct him. No big deal, right? Ana doesn't realize the trouble she has unleashed until Calvin shows up at her school. Calvin suggests setting up play dates for the two pugs, and Ana can't bring herself to admit that Osito isn't hers. In fact, her fibs keep multiplying! Will Ana fess up and figure out how she feels about Calvin before her white lies catch up to her? (2/10)