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On a trip to the space station, the space camp members carefully follow a howling creature. As if that wasn’t scary enough, the creature leads them right to a group of aliens! Thankfully they are friendly aliens.

Tim is working on his science fair project—a robot! When he spends a weekend afternoon with his great-uncle, he learns that his love of engineering and technology runs in the family. After Great-Uncle Bate lends him a little creativity to help figure out what’s wrong with the robot, Tim learns an awesome secret about him!

All of the Snot-Bots’ plans to bring contaminated chaos to Electropolis have been thwarted by those disgusting heroes of hygiene, the Clean Team. But their leader, Sludge, has something different in mind this time. Instead of going big, he’s going small—microscopic, even. He’s launching millions of nasty nano-bytes called Fart-Bots into the atmosphere to spew a giant cloud of gas over the city.

When one of the Snot-Bots creates a mess on Farts and Crafts day, Sludge gets an idea to bring massive, messy mayhem to Electropolis. Using his radiation ray gun, Sludge creates an army of Butt-Bombs and then sets them loose in the sewers. When the little poo-bots crawl up through the pipes, they cause disgusting chaos across the city.

Sludge is sick of the Clean Team foiling his attempts to turn Electropolis into his own putrid playground. So he hatches his most cunning plan yet. He sends one of the Snot-Bots in disguise as a rookie bot named Bit-Con to join his enemies, the Clean Team.

Deep under Electropolis, Sludge is watching from the Fartress of Foulitude as his arch enemies, the Clean Team, are awarded the Key to the City. Disgusted by the sanitary ceremony, the master of muck sets out to put his squeaky-clean rivals in their place for good! Will the Snot-Bot leader’s fiendish scheme succeed? Or will the Clean Team foil his plot before his filthy crew can ruin the city?

Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero! Infinity Drake – Finn for short – is STILL only 9mm tall. But before his crazy scientist uncle can figure out a way to return him to his normal size, a new threat emerges...

The beloved author of Posted and Ms. Bixby's Last Day returns with the first book in a coming-of-age sci-fi duology about Leo, a kid trying to navigate the galaxy in order to save his family—and, possibly, the planet Earth. When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the...

John Cusick returns with the second hilarious installment of his middle grade duology about a 31st-century boy and a 21st-century girl who team up to save the universe. Phineas T. Fogg and Lola Ray may have just saved the universe without really trying, but it’s going to take a lot of work to...

After months of captivity, Finn and Carla reach their final destination: evil mastermind Kaparis' secret lair in the Carpathian Mountains. Once there Finn learns the villain's true purpose - to conquer his paralysis and rise again. To do so Kaparis must shrink a team of medics down to microscopic size to repair his damaged spine, and now he's cracked the Boldklub code it seems nothing can stop him. Apart, that is, from a microscopic hero....

A 31st-century boy and a 21st-century girl team up to save the universe, evade an evil race of bog mutants, and make a quick pit stop to visit the moon in Dimension Why. John Cusick’s middle grade debut will transport you to a vast fantasy world full of absurd humor that will keep you gasping...

Johnny Dixon is worried about Professor Childermass. The professor has always been an odd duck, but lately his behavior has been positively bizarre. He’s been talking to himself and stalking down the street with his collar turned up and his hat over his eyes, and now he won’t return Johnny’s calls. Johnny’s afraid that the professor’s old age is starting to get to him, but he will soon find it’s something far more amazing—and far more dangerous.

In the next Clone Codes installment, Houston, a Cyborg, tells his story. Set in the year 2130, the World Federation of Nations determines through laws and regulations that all enhanced persons with three or more synthetic body or organ replacements are classified as three-fifths of a human being. As such, Houston is considered less than human, and must fight to overcome the rules of his strange universe.

There is a wicked system of operation inside the Topas Corporation, where clones are produced. Only authorized Topas officials are allowed inside. Only they, along with the clones themselves, know what happens within the walls of the world's largest and most powerful cloning company. This final book of The Clone Codes plunges listeners into this strange reality. At the same time, The World Federation of Nations has issued an urgent decree to the masses - find Houston Ye, a cyborg, and Leanna Deberry, a clone, both fugitives!

A thrilling sequel to Ted Bell's New York Times best seller Nick of Time, in which the young time traveler Nick McIver must prove his courage once more, on two fronts: in World War Two-era England, where Nazis have invaded his homeland, and in America during the Revolution, where Nick stands shoulder to shoulder with General George Washington.

An artist takes us through his day, from his own particular perspective. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka...

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her extraordinary family. She loves her Gran, but tries to avoid her brother, Tom, who is always trying to get her into trouble.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl, living in an extremely peculiar family. She is the sort of girl that no-one notices but somehow strange things begin to happen to her.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl–the sort of girl no-one really notices. She lives with her peculiar family and her horrid brother, Tom. Strange things happen to her when Mrs.Osborne, her teacher, gives her homework. She has to find out all she can about the Aztecs.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her peculiar family. Her life is quite boring–until strange things begin happening to her.