When a fourteen-year-old autistic boy is found standing next to a murdered woman, autism expert Casey Walker is called to consult on the case. Casey's search leads to another shocking murder.

Summer 1968. When thirteen-year-old Jack overhears the barbershop men grousing, he devises a secret plan to keep his oldest brother, Pete, from the draft. If famous boys don't go to war, he'll make his brother their small town's biggest celebrity. Jack and his cousin convince Jack's brother to lead an expedition to find a fighter jet that crashed many winters ago--the perfect adventure to make Pete a hero.

Iris Jenkins knows that bad things happen. So, when Iris is entrusted to house-sit at a lodge on the South Dakota prairie, she thinks she's prepared for anything. But one surprise is Sawyer Jones, the property's neighbor and caretaker. He's a caring, reassuring presence who's making her feel safe and alive again. Then late one night, Iris hears a chilling cry for help coming from a walkie-talkie buried in a box of toys. As the calls get more desperate,...

"Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka "Slugfest," in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget"--

In his latest book, the award-winning author and illustrator Steve Jenkins introduces readers to apex predators--the animals that are at the top of their food chains and have no natural enemies. Using his signature art style, Jenkins illustrates how these animals dominate their different ecosystems using speed, strength, and even cooperation and cunning. Take a trip through history and discover apex predators both past and present, from the earliest...

"Who are you exactly? What makes you, you? You are a living thing, a friend, a mystery, a miracle. You can be whatever you chose: it's your life to write, because you are a story!"--

Pearl is an anglerfish who wants to read her book in peace, but the other fish won't leave her alone! Nothing she does will keep them away--not hanging signs, not hiding under the seaweed, nor swimming away to a shipwreck. What's a poor fish got to do for some quiet alone time? Eventually Peral goes deeper and deeper to the abyssal zone--but then she has no one to discuss the book with.

The Big Cheese is the best at everything, and brags about it, too. When the annual Cheese-cathlon comes around, the Big Cheese is prepared to win, as always. But what happens when the quiet new kid, Wedge Wedgeman, comes out on top? Is a slice of humility all the Big Cheese needs to discover that some things are better than being the best?

In one moment of public violence, everything changes for Dave Wakeland. When masked men and women storm an office building in Chinatown, leaving a trail of carnage, the Vancouver PI and his partner, Jeff Chen, find themselves caught up in a mystery that won't let them go.The police have a vested interest in finding the shooters, and so does the leader of the Exiles motorcycle gang. Both want Wakeland's help. When the shooters themselves start turning...

Jack Biddlecomb has much to live up to as the eldest son of the esteemed Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, wealthy merchant captain, leading light of the War for American Independence, and newly minted congressman. Jack finds himself off to a promising start when he's given command of the merchant vessel Abigail bound from Philadelphia for Barbados. But even before the dock lines are cast off, the voyage begins to look like a stormy passage indeed. Jack is...