Sneaking Out by Nicole Andelfinger

Everyone at Sweet Valley Middle School is going to the biggest concert ever…everyone except twins, Jessica and Elizabeth! Their favorite band is back in town but no matter how much they beg their parents they can’t get permission to go. Elizabeth is ready to sulk and stay home, but Jessica refuses to give up hope. She’ll see this band even if it means lying or leaving her sister behind.

Caught between her parents and her twin will Elizabeth sneak out with Jessica? Or will she blow the whole plan out of the water?

book 5 in the Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels series

Sea Legs by Jules Bakes

Janey’s family is about to set sail for the adventure of a lifetime! The only problem? Janey must leave her school, her life, her best friend, the entire country behind for new adventures―coral reefs, colorful markets, and new cultures. Life at sea is exhilarating, but there’s a major downside: when you’re raising anchor every few days with sights on a new harbor, it’s almost impossible to make new friends.

Finally, Janey meets the cool and aloof Astrid―a fellow boat kid who’s equally starved for friendship. But Astrid can be a challenging friend to navigate, and beyond that, hurricane season has only just begun . . . .

I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 by Georgia Ball

It’s been four years since Carmen and Papa moved from Italy to Boston. Life here is exciting, but not always easy. And then there’s the massive metal tank that rises up over their crowded North End neighborhood. The ugly tank, filled with sticky brown molasses, has always leaked. But nobody imagined that it could one day explode apart, sending a tsunami of molasses into the streets.

Caught in the flood, Carmen must fight for her life—the life that she and Papa built together in America. But where will she find the strength?

book 11 in the I Survived Graphic Novels series

I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 by Georgia Ball

It’s hard enough that Ben is visiting his dad’s hometown in Japan only four months after his death. But one morning, Ben’s grief turns to fear when a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village where he’s staying. His family narrowly escapes a collapsing house, only to find that the ocean is rising up. Ben and his family are swept away—and pulled apart—by a devastating tsunami.

Now Ben is alone, stranded in an unfamiliar country thousands of miles from home. Can Ben find enough courage and strength to survive one of the most epic disasters of all time?

book 12 in the I Survived Graphic Novels series

The Wasted Wilderness by Roan Black

In this installment of the action-packed Guardians of Horsa graphic novel series, the Guardians venture into the wild realm, home to the legendary yearling.

In Asroh, the alternate realm of Horsa, untamed animals roam free and danger lurks in every shadow. The Guardians must summon all their bravery to journey into the Wasted Wilderness, where they might find the yearling at last.

book 6 in the Guardians of Horsa series

Party Animal by Nick Bruel

It’s Puppy’s birthday and Kitty would rather be anywhere else.

While Puppy gets a BIG present and a very special birthday breakfast, all Kitty can do is pop the balloons, topple the cake, and cause mayhem…unless, she can learn how to let Puppy have the spotlight.

Help Puppy (and Kitty) celebrate this special day in this graphic novel about sibling rivalry, and learning how to share, in the latest full-color addition to the bestselling Bad Kitty series.

book 5 in the Bad Kitty Graphic Novels series

Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter by Ellen T. Crenshaw

The Mancusis don’t have any kids… but they sure do have a lot of pets! So when they’re desperate for a sitter, who do they call? The Baby-Sitters Club! Kristy feels pretty sure that the BSC does not pet-sit. But Jessi has always liked animals, and she talks Kristy into being okay with her taking the job.

With snakes on the loose and sick hamsters, Jessi’s got plenty of pet-sitting troubles, and things don’t get any easier when she and her friends get into a big fight. Will Jessi be able to handle her pet-sitting job when things are going wrong with the baby-sitters, too?

book 18 in The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels series

Space Case: The Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs

For twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson, living on the moon is a dream come true. Except for the low-gravity lunar toilets. And the food. And the part where his best friend lives about 250,000 miles away. And how there are almost no other kids up here, except for his kid sister and a couple of billionaire bullies. Oh, right, and the fact that a fellow lunarnaut just died—and only Dashiell knows that his death wasn’t an accident.

Plenty of people on the moon base are hiding something, but which of them are capable of murder? It’s up to Dashiell to figure it out—before the killer strikes again.

book 1 in the Moon Base Alpha Graphic Novels series

Spy Ski School: The Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs

Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen—he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive. His enemies have kidnapped him, shot at him, locked him in a room with a ticking time bomb, and even tried to blow him up with missiles. And he’s survived every time. After all that unexpected success, the CIA has decided to activate Ben for real.

The Mission: Become friends with Jessica Shang, the daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss, and find out all her father’s secrets.

book 4 in the Spy School Graphic Novels series

Wild Ghost Chase by John Patrick Green

New S.U.I.T.* recruit Zeb the sheep joins the flock to help crack the greatest mystery of all! But, just what is the greatest mystery of all?

Pondering that conundrum is what has kept the dearly departed General Inspectre tethered to Earth long after he should have moved on to the great super-spy base in the sky. Zeb must solve the series’ biggest mystery EVER to finish the Inspectre’s unfinished business!

*Special Undercover Investigation Teams

book 2 in the InvestiGATORS: Agents of S.U.I.T. series

Minecraft: Out of Order, Volume 1 by Josh Hicks

Riley is an unassuming farmer living a comfortable life in a small hillside hamlet, with little desire for adventure. This all changes when the militant Province of Perfect Sameness storms into town and flattens their home, led by the identical twins, Paula and Prentice. The twin’s campaign to impose their vision of “perfect sameness” on the Overworld forces Riley and friends into action, sending them all on the adventure of a lifetime!

Riley employs the aid of friend Charlie, a brilliant builder with a tendency to ignore health and safety rules and overuse TNT which has earned him the reputation as town troublemaker—and Emily, a loner and former warrior for the Province of Perfect Sameness who is torn by guilt over her service with the Province. Together, they must venture to the Province’s fortress, cross swords with the twin’s legion of soldiers, and pull off their biggest (and only) heist ever to steal back all the materials taken from their Hamlet!

book 1 in the Minecraft: Out of Order series

Pokémon. Scarlet & Violet, Volume 1 by Hidenori Kusaka

Violet Lang and Scarlet Koito attend an academy in the Paldea region and embark on their first big assignments: finding treasures that will help them become amazing Trainers with even more powerful Pokémon! Violet Lang calls himself the Prince of Speed and races across the Paldea region in search of the Herba Mystica that will give his Pokémon ultimate speed. Meanwhile, Scarlet Kioto is a Treasure Hunter in search of the Treasures of Ruin. As the two travel the Paldea region, a new adventure begins!

book 1 of the Pokémon: Scarlet & Violet series

Very Bad at Math by Hope Larson

Verity “Very” Nelson can do it all.

She’s student body president, debate club whiz, and first chair clarinetist. You could say she’s pretty much the best at everything… Well, almost everything. Everything except math.

And it’s not like she doesn’t try. Math just doesn’t make sense in her brain. But it better start soon, or else she can kiss her presidency—and her campaign promises—goodbye. Soon Verity finds herself enrolled in a remedial math class where, despite her best efforts, failure persists. All seems lost until a teacher helps her discover the Verity has dyscalculia, a learning disability that causes her to mix up numbers.

Armed with a new perspective, can Verity pass math, keep her presidency, and make good on her word to the student body she loves so much? Or will her presidency—and perfect reputation—all come crashing down?

Entirely Emmie by Terri Libenson

Crushes. Camping.

MIDDLE SCHOOL

These days, Emmie doesn’t feel so invisible. At least not around her best friends and her crush, Tyler.

Class-clown Joe’s jokes aren’t landing the way they used to. Who doesn’t love a good prank? Apparently not his so-called friends, who don’t even seem to care if he’s around.

When their class goes on an end-of-year camping trip, Emmie and Joe find themselves stuck together—and expect the worst. But what happens instead turns out to be entirely unexpected.

book 9 in the Emmie & Friends series

Stephen McCranie’s Space Boy, Volume 21 by Stephen McCranie

A terrible truth about the Wanderer is revealed!

Zeph finally has a potential lead to Amy’s kidnapping: Jemmah—the last person Amy called on homecoming night. Meanwhile, Qiana and Amy venture into the Lords of Lore to find Sophi. When she offers to help them escape the FCP, Amy finds herself torn between seeing her family again and helping Qiana with her quest. A fragment of the ancient Babyloyptian scroll may provide answers, but it may also lead to more questions …

book 21 in the Space Boy series

Stuck by Kayla Miller

A storm is brewing—in the skies and in Olive’s friend group.

Olive is excited to reunite with Max and Bree at Camp Acorn Lake, but the buses have barely pulled away when her two closest camp friends start fighting…and it’s not just a little squabble. They refuse to speak to each other and, even worse, try to make Olive choose sides. Any attempt to smooth things over seems to aggravate them more, leaving Olive stuck in the middle. With Willow enjoying her busy activity and social schedule, Olive has no choice but to spend most of her time with unhappy first-time camper Nat. It’s far from the fun-filled, sun-filled summer she had planned.

Luckily, Olive is able to distract herself with a new challenge: pitching a winning plan for improving the camp! Willow, Nat, and even the feuding Max and Bree want to help Olive make the camp a better place, but with all the drama, they’re lacking the teamwork to make the dream work. Can Olive find a way to free herself and her friends from everything that’s holding them back, or are they doomed to stay stuck in their disagreements?

book 7 in the Click series

Mallory and the Trouble with Twins by Arley Nopra

Mallory knows she’s a good baby-sitter. She’s been looking after her seven younger brothers and sisters for years. So when Kristy offers her a steady job baby-sitting for the Arnold twins, Mal thinks it’ll be easy money.

The twins sure are cute in their matching outfits. But once Mrs. Arnold leaves, Marilyn and Carolyn turn into twin terrors! They trick Mallory so that she can’t tell them apart and they act like spoiled brats.

Taking care of Marilyn and Carolyn is a baby-sitting nightmare. But Mallory is a responsible member of the Baby-Sitters Club and she’s not giving up!

book 17 in The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels series

Big Nate: Attack of the Cheez Funk Breath! by Lincoln Peirce

Snack-loving sixth-grader Nate Wright always has his hands full—of Cheez Doodles! But those delicious orange curls make his breath stink, and when he tries to quit them cold turkey, poor Nate’s a hot mess. And that’s not the end of his problems.

Out of nowhere, Nate gets dumped by his best buddy Francis. He strikes out at the school dance. And a close encounter at the beach with a spiky-haired look-alike has everyone seeing double. Can our favorite troublemaker turn the funk back into fun?

book 32 in the Big Nate: Comics series

Big Nate: No Harm Done! by Lincoln Peirce

It’s back-to-school time for sixth-grader Nate Wright, and this just might be the best year ever! Rumors are flying that the villainous Mrs. Godfrey is now teaching EIGHTH grade.

Chad is on the verge of destroying Gina in the race for class president. And could Nate finally realize his dream of changing the school mascot to . . . a sea cucumber? Hey, why not? He’s a can-do kind of guy. So when the Weekly Bugle needs a story, Nate’s happy to make headlines—by (allegedly) starting an epic food fight in the cafetorium!

In this latest collection of gut-busting Big Nate comics, Nate’s always stirring things up, but at the end of every day, P.S. 38 is still standing. In other words: NO HARM DONE!

book 33 in the Big Nate: Comics series

Restless Ruins by Jordan Quinn

Ruskin and his friends explore a magical tower in search of the Fallen Wizard’s staff needed to reseal the barrier between realms.

Darkness has arrived and the dragons are racing right toward it. Hidden somewhere deep in the forest of Trellis, there is a fallen wizard’s tower full of secrets. Ruskin knows that to enter the magical tower, he needs even more powerful magic. But what he doesn’t know is that something sinister is lurking in the tower’s shadows, waiting for his arrival…

book 12 in the Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly series

Lilo & Stitch: The Graphic Novel by R.H. Disney

Lilo is a young, lonely girl who has never quite fit in with kids her own age. Stitch is an extraterrestrial creature genetically engineered to cause chaos and mischief. When Stitch ends up at the pound in Lilo’s Hawaiian town, she adopts him. Together they learn that it’s not always bad to be different and that your ‘ohana, or family, is a bond worth fighting for-even if that fight is against alien invaders!

Speechless by Aron Nels Steinke

Middle school was supposed to be a fresh start for Mira, who struggles to speak in class even though she can speak at home without a problem. She didn’t used to have anxiety speaking—and she used to have friends. Now, her former best friend Chloe is her worst enemy, and Mira’s only solace is making videos for her secret stop-motion animation channel.

But when Chloe’s mom has to travel for a family emergency, Mira is horrified to learn that her family has volunteered to let Chloe stay with them. When it feels like everything is going wrong, will Mira ever find her voice?

Escaping Peril by Tui T. Sutherland

Peril has been loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her fatal firescales to kill countless dragons in the SkyWing arena. Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes.

There’s just one problem: a strangely persistent SeaWing, Turtle, insists on coming along, too. Turtle is worried about his friends, who left to search for Scarlet and haven’t returned. Peril is worried that she might accidentally burn Turtle—or burn him on purpose, for being so annoying—and frustrated that she keeps saying and doing the wrong things.

She can’t escape her firescales, and she can’t escape her reputation as the deadliest dragon in Pyrrhia. So when she’s offered a chance to trade everything for a new life, Peril has to decide who she’s really loyal to … and whether her own scales might actually be worth saving.

book 8 in the Wings of Fire Graphic Novel series

The Great Space Iguana by Judd Winick

AHHHHH! A GIANT SPACE IGUANA has landed in D.J.’s backyard. Where did she come from? And why is the whole universe out to get her?! D.J., Hilo, and Gina will have to RACE through space to get her home! If they don’t, the whole universe will be in DANGER!

But there’’s a galaxy of TROUBLE (not to mention one super annoyed alien dad, some very cranky monsters, and a warrior match combat challenge (um, what?!?!) in their way. Can they make it?! (And how is D.J. at driving a spaceship, anyway?)

book 11 in the Hilo series

Quest for the True Dragon by Jaimal Yogis

Daijiang’s continued pursuit of Grace has made it clear that she and Nate are crucial to his plan. But as her Hunxue powers grow stronger, Grace can’t help but feel it’s unfair she might be missing out on a normal school life. Other kids get to relax, watch movies with friends, and go on dates, while Grace is risking her life to save world. Something has felt off about her connection with Nate lately, and she keeps dreaming of her father and his ominous insistence that she must wake the dragon kings.

When a trip to rendezvous with an old ally goes awry, Grace and her friends find themselves stranded in Tokyo with only one day to wake the Southern Dragon King. But with the race against the clock exacerbating tensions on the team, can Grace get back in sync with Nate and her friends before it’s too late?

book 3 in the City of Dragons series