"In this punny, laugh-out-loud picture book, Captain Dad, who has brought along his treasure chest of jokes, and his crew spend the day at the beach!"--

After a record snowfall, four Minnesota boys are enjoying a rare day off school by digging a system of snow tunnels to each others houses, a local tradition. As they navigate their way through the massive mounds, they get more of an adventure than they bargained for when they enter a portal uncovered beneath the snow by Robbie, the youngest of the group. When their adventure lands them in the midst of one of Blackbeard's evil schemes, twelve-year-old...

Little Shark Lulu is trying very hard to go to sleeeep... But, all around her, lots of sea life are wide awake and busily hunting, eating or playing. How can Lulu nod off with all that underwater fun and games? Join her as she meets a colourful array of bedtime sea creature friends!

Ruby is a thief-in-training and a keeper of secrets-ones she doesn't even know herself. A Riddle in Ruby is the first book in a witty and fast-paced fantasy-adventure trilogy for fans for Jonathan Stroud, Septimus Heap, and The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates. Ruby Teach, daughter of a smuggler and pirate, has been learning how to swindle and steal and pick the most complex locks for as long as she can remember. But a collision with aristocratic...

Venture into the compelling narrative of 'Treasure Trove' where Diane, Bronwyn, and Zack embark on an adventure to find a treasure ship from the 1622 Spanish Plate Fleet. Their journey of exploration and revelation of implementing high-tech to find long-lost shipwrecks leads them to a human trafficking ring in the Bahamas and Florida. Attempting to free one of the enslaved girls challenges their abilities and nerves as they are chased through the...

Forget what you know about prophecies-this epic middle-grade fantasy about a clumsy boy born into a family of thieves is fresh, fun, and anything but predictable! The first in an unforgettable trilogy, this Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year takes everything you thought you knew about fantasy and spins it into pure magic. Jaxter Grimjinx is a born thief. At least, he's supposed to be. For generations, the Grimjinx clan has produced the...

Adventure Beckons as the team work hard to get themselves and their ship ready to set sail while the good weather holds. They have a mission in mind, but no real idea what it will entail, and only half a team with any experience at sea, so they need to be clever about how they prepare. They use all their skill and ingenuity but, as usual, there are other surprises in store for them, both before they set sail and after!

Once more, our reluctant hero Ricky Bradshaw faces a life-threatening event. His mom is sick. Like, really sick. Desperate to try anything to get a miracle, and having watched the movie Jesus Revolution with his Mom, Ricky agrees to be baptized in a creek by the Pirate Preacher. But things go from bad to worse to apocalyptic when Ricky doesn't come up for air. In the next moment, he's on a ship with Jonah the prophet, in the middle of a raging storm. Sensing...

Riff Raff's cave has become crowded, and with the mice pirates in close quarters, things are getting a bit rowdy! Can the brave buccaneers evade Gorgon Zola's gang and make it to a new cave, safe and sound? Riff Raff stars in another hilarious I Can Read, perfect for beginning buccaneers-and readers!

"Will leave you dying to know more."-Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series The New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatchers and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the riveting first tale of the Lock and Key trilogy about the origins of the rivalry between literature's most famous enemies-Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty, told from the perspective of James's observant little sister, Moria. Before...