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Entity 303 has given his ultimatum that the time for war draws near. Can Jimmy and his squad do anything to stop it? Will Jimmy learn more about his powers? Will we discovery who the other long-lost engineered Minecraft villager child is? Will the Rainbow Creeper intervene? Find out the answers to these questions and more when you read the latest unofficial Minecraft book from Dr. Block.

In If I Built a Car, imaginative Jack dreamed up a whimsical fantasy ride that could do just about anything. Now he's back and ready to build the house of his dreams, complete with a racetrack, flying room, and gigantic slide. Jack's limitless creativity and infectious enthusiasm will inspire budding young inventors to imagine their own fantastical designs.

The first surf contest is only a week away, and Jimmy, Laird, Emma, and the Ender King need to get ready. Notch has disappeared. Clayton seems to be doing fine, having converted his slaving technology to the prosperous DOTS. Can Jimmy and his teammates be ready to win the contest, or will a llama and an elderly ender woman stand in their way? Listen to book six of Diary of a Surfer Villager to find out!

Treachery. Intrigue. Fear. As Book Four begins, Winston and Wolf are searching for the traitor they believe is in their midst. But can they locate the traitor before it is to late? Listen to Book Four in the Ballad of Winston the Wandering Trader to find out!

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes an all-new story about life's greatest adventure: catching your dream! This time, there are no traps to build or maps to follow, but only milestones to achieve! Everything you need to catch your biggest dream is already in you! A celebration of resilience, bravery, persistence, and true belief in yourself, How to Catch a Dream is perfect for fans of Oh, the Places You'll Go and Happy Dreamer, and a reminder that catching your dream is always within reach!

It’s summertime, so Deven gets a new video game, Grandad gets a new used RV, and Jayden finally gets a new dog! You know how it is with dogs–you want to take them everywhere: On a police chase, Up the elevator, On the roof, To the theater…

Deception. Confession. Devastation. In the aftermath of the destruction of the Rebellion's Nether base, Wex and the High Council must regroup. Will the journey to Willow's secret hideout give them the answers they need to stay one step ahead of Wickham, or is it all part of his evil plan to destroy the Rebellion and take over the world? Listen to Book Seven in The Ballad of Winston to find out!

Two years after a global pandemic, 20 survivors (most of them children) have relocated from their Coastal Maine island full of sad memories to a mansion on a small, neighboring island where they have school and farm chores. When Gabe and his dog, Mud, find Relle Douglas alone in the woods on the mainland, they take the strange new girl across the channel to live with them.

Pesha and Fen have shouldered the grief, pain, and fear for the people they love for as long as they can remember. Fen as his sister’s protector and handler, and Pesha as his brother’s trusted right hand. Neither has given thought to their own happiness, because a life of crisis only allows for chaos. Contentment is an affliction neither can afford. When Pesha embarks on a desperate, risky journey to a homeland he’s never been to, in a final attempt to save his dying sister, Fen doesn’t hesitate to come along to help the man he’s been slowly falling in love with.

Otis the pigman jockey tells his tale! Otis is a baby zombie pigman who has lots of pig friends. But, the pigs don't know what it is like to be a baby zombie pigman and cannot help Otis learn how to be a baby zombie pigman. Still, Otis has fun with his pig friends until tragedy strikes. Then, he must set out on a quest for shelter in the Overworld. And that is when things really start to get interesting.

Jimmy Slade, a young villager, has a dream: He wants to become a surfer. But there is only one BIG problem: There are no waves in the oceans of the Overworld! (And everyone he tells of his dream thinks he is crazy except his best friend, Emma.) Jimmy's parents don't think he stands a chance to become a surfer, but he won't give up. Will Biff the Bully get in his way? Who will help Jimmy solve the problem of creating waves in the flat, flat, FLAT ocean?

Jimmy Slade and Emma have created an awesome surf park and are earning huge piles of emeralds. What could go wrong? Biff the bully is jealous and acting like a meanie, but when his cousins Claire, the fashionista, and Clayton, the athletic nerd, arrive, will he be on his best behavior?

Colin has spent all summer solving mysteries with his friend Nevaeh. But they’ve only ever dealt with other people’s mysteries—ones that are safe for Colin to think about. He’s still stuck on the mystery surrounding his own father, who his mother refuses to talk about and he can’t remember meeting. Then one morning Colin finds a shoebox on his porch with a note on top: “Your father wanted you to have this.” Inside the box is a key. This new clue makes Colin even more determined to find out the truth about his dad and why his parents split up when he was a baby.

Flint, Wren, and Ace, along with Charles, are now members of the Eureka, a state-of-the-art vessel heading for a world in the far reaches of a new galaxy. Sixty years ago a colony ship was sent there, along with someone close to their benefactor. But when they arrive, they find getting to the surface isn’t as easy as they thought. With a crash-landing, and news that shocks the entire crew, they must collectively find a way to get the Pilgrim off-planet and into the fight against the Watchers.

Sixth grade takes a turn for the weird when Hector Griggs discovers he has the ability to turn invisible. Sure, ever since Hector’s former best friend Blake started bullying him, he’s been feeling like he just wants to disappear…but he never thought he actually would. And then, Hector meets another invisible boy, Orson Wellington, who has an ominous warning: “I’m stuck here. Stuck like this. It’s been years. The gelim’s hunting me and it’ll get you, too.”

It’s summer in Sherwood Heights, and that means a ninja stealth picnic, supervillain jail, and a zombie apocalypse! The Dudes are five friends who set out to save Nate from the doom of private school. But code names, battle training, and a campout of doom don’t help as much as you’d think they would. Besides that, the girl next door has a teacup-sized pit bull, Tyler’s mom has banned “screen time”, and there’s the rising cost of fake blood. Can the Dudes use inadvisable stunts and madcap plans to save the day? That’s how they roll!

Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He’s been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there’s something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as a trans man if he’d lived today.

When Santo’s father left their tiny town in Italy for America, he made Santo promise to keep their family together until he has enough money to bring the rest of them to the US. It takes a few years, but Mama finally gets word that their family can join Papa. Santo couldn’t be more excited to go to America—and to see his father again. However, Santo gets separated from his mother and siblings at Ellis Island, and he is left to fend for himself on the mean streets of Manhattan. Santo doesn’t speak English, he doesn’t know anyone, and he has nowhere to go. He has no money and no help.

Thirteen-year-old Juan’s summer is off to a terrible start. First, his parents separate. Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito’s house for the entire break! Who wants to live with an oddball recluse who has zigzag eyebrows, drinks 15 cups of smoky tea a day, and lives inside a huge, mysterious library? As Juan adjusts to his new life among teetering, dusty shelves, he notices something odd: the books move on their own! He rushes to tell Uncle Tito, who lets his nephew in on a secret: Juan is a Princeps Reader, which means books respond magically to him.

Celebrate the holiday season with Don Daily’s classic The Twelve Days of Christmas Cats, featuring all original twelve Christmas Cats in feline fashion. The traditional twelve days of Christmas poem is creatively transformed, with each spread featuring one of the twelve cats. Siamese, leopards, persians, calico cats and kittens playfully ring in Christmas cheer as they dance in this heartwarming classic.