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In this hilarious, hijinks-filled graphic novel super-swine Batpig is ready to face even bigger bullies, harder fights, and scariest of all―meeting his superhero idol.Ordinary pig, Gary Yorkshire, has his entire life turned upside down when a bite on the nose from a radioactive bat turns him into…BATPIG. With the support of his best friends, Brooklyn the bat and Carl the fish, he finally feels like he’s getting a handle on this whole superhero business. That is, until he faces a battle against time itself, when an underappreciated janitor slows down the clock so much that a math class never ever ends (the horror!). Can Batpig save the class from never-ending fractions?

A National Book Award FinalistBoston Globe Best Book of 2021TIME Best Children’s Book of 2021Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2021New York Public Library Best Book for Kids of 2021Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for 2021NPR Best Book of 2021 PW Best Book of 2021Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021Kirkus Best Book of 2021School Library Journal Best Book of 2021"A gentle, glowing wonder, full of love and understanding." –The New York Times Book ReviewIt's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug, who doesn't particularly want to spend more time trying to understand how to be a girl. Besides, there's something more important to worry about:

With nods to The Phantom Tollbooth and Coraline, this darkly funny fantasy is a classic-in-the-making―the story of a boy who wants the world to disappear…and what happens when it does.Mickey is angry all the time: at his divorced parents, at his sister, and at his two new stepmoms, both named Charlie. And so he can’t resist the ad inside his pack of gum: “Do you ever wish everyone would go away? Buy The Anti-Book!” He orders the book, but when it arrives, it’s blank―except for one line of instruction: To erase it, write it. He fills the pages with all the things and people he dislikes…and the next thing he knows, he’s wandering an anti-world, one in which everything and everyone familiar is gone. Or are they?Full of humor and surprise, and slyly meaningful, this is a Wizard of Oz for today’s generation―a fantastical quest for comfort and belonging that will resonate with many, many readers.

"Sloan captures the importance of compassion and bravery when facing life’s challenges” (Kirkus) in this touching novel by the critically acclaimed author of Counting by 7s.It’s been almost a year since Sila’s mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States.The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with an unusual boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places.A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and upl

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer. Learn all about Jane Goodall, the chimp