Fiction

The AstroNuts! Lucky for us, back in the 1980s, NNASA (NotNASA) created four secret super-powered Animal Astronauts—AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug. They were built to be automatically launched into space to check out possible Goldilocks planets if things on Earth ever got too bad.

A humorous chapter book about a fourth-grade boy, full of the fun of growing up in Hawaii. Calvin Coconut lives near the beach in Kailua, Hawaii, with his mom and his little sister. All his friends live there, too.

Marvin Redpost has never felt like he fits in with his family. So when he hears a news report about a missing prince who looks just like him, he knows exactly what happened.

In Andy Riley's charming and funny King Flashypants illustrated young readers series, Edwin is a boy with his own crown and castle in his very own kingdom of Edwinland. But being a king isn't as easy as he imagined when he encounters enemies on a series of adventures.

Astra's family are all snoring in their sleeping pods, but Astra is WIDE AWAKE. With her friend, Pilbeam, she goes off exploring and soon finds out the ship is in deep trouble. It's been knocked off course and invaded by a gang of Poglites, an alien salvage crew searching for spoons. But even the Poglites need Astra's help when they discover something far more sinister lurking in the canteen... Sure, they're cakes; but no one would describe them as sweet! Another splendiferous adventure from dynamic duo, Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre.

Agatha and her friends live on the same street as their school. They are awakened at midnight by the sustained ringing of their school. The children enlist their parents and teachers to try and uncover the mystery. Agatha and her group wonder whether the culprit is a ghost.

When Delta Dawn, the photographer she hired for her daughter's eleventh birthday, starts slowly integrating herself into their lives, Amelia Staub soon discovers that she will do anything to permanently become part of the picture.

Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, Mary soon finds herself the object of suspicion and rumor.

Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget.

Nine strangers, including FBI Agent Jessica Winslow, receive a cryptic list with their names on it. There seems to be no connection between the people, until they begin to die in unusual circumstances.