Skye Hamilton, invited to attend the exclusive Alphas-only boarding school, must gird herself for the intense competition between young members of the country's best and brightest.

"It's been eighty-three days since Annie Lee's daddy died, but she still sees reminders of him everywhere. His record player mysteriously plays his favorite songs, there's shaving cream in the sink every morning, and the TV keeps flipping to the Duke basketball games he loved. She knows Mama notices it too, but Mama's been working around the clock to make ends meet. To make matters worse, Annie Lee's friends ditched her over the summer. She feels...

Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.

"This is the story of Hattie. Hattie lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Her house is red and has its own name. There are jabbering ducks in the duckhouse, and hens that wander and poop in her mother's flowerbeds. Hattie has a dog called Tacka and two stripy outdoor cats, Havana and Stick. Hattie has been waiting forever for school to start. She's looking forward to it so much, she might burst"--Back cover.

"Katie's class is invited to see a new house a classmate's father is building, where they learn the steps to building a house and even who the new homeowner is"--Title verso page.

"Ride along to school with the #1 New York Times best-selling Little Blue Truck and meet Blue's new friend: a bright yellow school bus. Beep-beep! Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are excited to meet a bright yellow school bus on the road. They see all the little animals lined up in the school bus's many windows, and Blue wishes he could be a school bus too. What a fun job--but much too big for a little pickup like Blue. Or is it? When somebody...