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The baking book that every kid needs, from America’s Test Kitchen, who brought you the #1 New York Times bestselling brand! For the first time ever, America’s Test Kitchen is bringing their baking expertise and testing to the children’s market–with THE must-have baking cookbook for every kid chef! Using kid-tested and approved recipes, America’s Test Kitchen has created THE baking cookbook every kid chef needs on their shelf. With sweet and savory recipes, The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs is perfect for kids who want to bake for themselves, their friends, or their family. In addition to the best and most delicious recipes, chapters include how-to information, detailed technique guidance, step-by-step photos, and information on the science behind what makes your baked goods taste so amazing. Tested for quality, taste, ease, availability of ingredients, and more, each recipe will be suited perfectly for the emerging young baker. Photos and testimonials from kid test cooks will encourage young chefs that they truly are learning from the best!

Celebrate life stories and nurture deeper bonds with your family while finding greater joy and gratitude With this engaging time capsule journal, kids can record awesome adventures, achievements, and activities while improving their penmanship… Prompts will inspire kids to write and doodle stories, both serious and silly, while building self-esteem. Pages also include places for adding photographs and memorabilia. Master story-catcher Katie Clemons will help children assemble the perfect treasure chest of their youth—their own unique story! Serious and silly prompts include: How to convince my parents I need an awesome… I don’t like to clean the… I always remember… I could spend the whole summer doing nothing but… The best time to help with chores is…

Neil Gaiman meets How to Train Your Dragon in this beautifully illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy, his dog, and his best friend as they race to save the stars before their light is extinguished for good. Now in paperback! When the world first formed, the night was black and filled with dark creatures. The Elders knew their people couldn’t survive such a threat. To keep the evil at bay, they gave their hearts to the sky in the form of stars. Now, eleven-year-old Kyro is a Star Shepherd like his father. He’s spent his life tucked away in the small town of Drenn. There, the family watches the night sky for falling stars—and rushes to rescue them when they do. One night, too many stars fall all at once, disappearing before they can be saved, and Kyro’s father journeys to report the calamity. When he doesn’t return, Kyro, with the help of his best friend, Andra, and his trusty dog, Cypher, must find a way to save the stars before the dark creatures make their terrifying return.

A one-of-a-kind journal for the father and son who crave a rule-free, creative way to connect with each other This engaging prompt journal is the perfect tool to strengthen father-son relationships. Kids can record memories, swap stories, compare perspectives, and explore common and unique interests with their dad! Letters back and forth and interactive lists invite both to reflect, write, and doodle about topics timely to their lives as kids build self-confidence and improve their penmanship. Master storycatcher Katie Clemons helps sons discover the beauty of their stories and, best of all, strengthen their bonds with their dads!

Senior citizens, a road trip, and a karaoke contest—Samantha’s summer is going to be a wild ride! Samantha’s mom springs a big surprise at the start of summer vacation—the two of them are visiting Gram at her new condo in Florida. Samantha can’t think of anything more boring than hanging around with a bunch of senior citizens at Sunny Sandy Shores condominium. When Mom gets called back home, Samantha’s summer plans take an unexpected turn. Gram and her pal Mimi decide to audition for the Seniors’ Got Talent Karaoke Contest. This means taking a road trip across Florida in Gram’s new Mustang. What’s even worse is that Mimi’s grandson, Brandon, is coming with! Nothing about their road trip goes to plan, and Samantha’s summer becomes one she will never forget.

The Golden Compass for the digital age, about a coding star and her robotic cat companion that isn’t what it seems Lacey Chu has always dreamed of working as an engineer for MONCHA, the biggest tech firm in the world and the company behind the “baku”—a customizable “pet” with all the capabilities of a smartphone. But when Lacey is rejected by the elite academy that promises that future, she’s crushed. One night, Lacey comes across the broken form of a highly advanced baku. After Lacey repairs it, the cat-shaped baku she calls Jinx opens its eyes and somehow gets her into her dream school. But Jinx is different than any other baku she’s ever seen… He seems real. As Lacey settles into life at school, competing with the best students in baku battles that tests her abilities, she learns that Jinx is part of a dangerous secret. Can Lacey hold on to Jinx and her dreams for the future?

Story Thieves meets Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library in this wacky, funny, hilarious, and fast-paced middle grade series starter with the perfect combination of magic, imagination, and adventure Javi Santiago is trying his best not to fail sixth grade. So, when the annual “invite any three people to dinner” homework assignment rolls around, Javi enlists his best friend, Wiki, and his sister, Brady, to help him knock it out of the park. But the dinner party is a lot more than they bargained for. The family’s mysterious antique table actually brings the historical guests to the meal…and Blackbeard the Pirate is turning out to be the worst guest of all time. Before they can say “avast, ye maties,” Blackbeard escapes, determined to summon his bloodthirsty pirate crew. And as Javi, Wiki, and Brady try to figure out how to get Blackbeard back into his own time, they might have to invite some even zanier figures to set things right again…

This Indies Introduce and Indie Next Pick is a tale of one family’s perilous journey to cross the U.S. border during the Mexican Revolution that is every bit as relevant and heartbreaking today…now in paperback!

Explore etymology and world cultures in the new, exciting, action-packed mystery series from #1 New York Times bestseller Raj Haldar! In The Mystery of the Taj Mahal Treasure, Eddie and MJ are hunting down clues to find an Indian treasure…

From the author of highly-acclaimed Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna comes a compelling new novel about a twelve-year-old girl who builds a new life in America

Zailey knows every face in Gladder Hill. But she’s never seen her own. Zailey’s never seen her own reflection, or a photo of herself, or even a drawing. Here at Gladder Hill, cameras and mirrors are banned, words like “beautiful” and “ugly” aren’t in the dictionaries, and it’s wrong to talk—or even think—about anyone’s appearance, including one’s own. People are happier at Gladder Hill—or so Zailey’s been taught—so her fascination with her classmates’ faces is a guilty secret. She starts to wonder about the world outside the community, the past she can’t quite remember, and most of all, what she looks like. When a fateful event leads Zailey beyond the gates of Gladder Hill, she finally has a chance to have her questions answered. But is she prepared for the truth?

Changing minds about disability and showing the world what’s possible!

“Dear Kate” knows all of Sofia’s secrets… and she’s dating the one person Sofia is hiding them from Fourteen-year-old Sofia Wolfe has her fair share of problems, and she doesn’t have anyone to talk to…until she finds “Dear Kate.” The teen advice columnist provides Sofia with an anonymous outlet where she can express everything she’s been holding inside. But then “Dear Kate” shows up on her doorstep. With her dad. As his girlfriend. With the keeper of all of her secrets now dating her dad, how on earth will Sofia make it through the year?

-It’s puppy love at first sight when Kat and Maya meet adorable Bailey! -Being the new kid—or puppy—isn’t always a walk in the park…

In this enchanting debut, Izzy must save her sister from a fairy land as dangerous as it is magical Izzy’s family has just moved to a town her parents call “quaint” but Izzy calls “boring”…until she overhears the stories about the witch who lives next door. Then Hen, Izzy’s little sister, disappears, and the witch is the only one who can help. Hen has been whisked away to Faerie, a mysterious place ruled by an evil queen and overrun with horrible creatures that do her bidding. Joined there by a band of outlaw Changelings—magical children that can shift from one form to another—Izzy sets out on a search-and-rescue mission across a foreign land that is both alluringly magical and utterly terrifying.

Who eats Cheetos with chopsticks?! Avery and Becca, my “Chinese Sisters,” that’s who. We’re not really sisters—we were just adopted from the same orphanage. And we’re nothing alike. I pretend like I don’t know them. Which is not easy since we’re all going to summer camp to “bond.” So I’m stuck in a cabin with five other girls who aren’t getting along, competing for a camp trophy and losing (badly), wondering how I got here…and where I belong.

Dara Palmer knows for a fact that she was meant to be onstage. But when The Sound of Music is selected for the school musical, Dara isn’t cast as Maria—or at all. She can’t help but wonder: is it because she’s different? Maybe it’s because she was adopted from Cambodia and doesn’t look like a typical fraulein… So irrepressible Dara comes up with a grand scheme to shake the school: write her own play about her own life. Then she’ll have to be the star.

When troublemaking Scarlet vanishes from Rookwood boarding school, Ivy, her quiet twin sister, is invited to “take her place.” But when Ivy arrives, she discovers the school’s true intention. She is not simply taking up Scarlet’s enrollment. She must think like Scarlet, act like Scarlet, become Scarlet. What on earth happened to the real Scarlet, and why is the school trying to keep it a secret?****

Sparks is an 11-year-old cabin boy on the Southern Cross, a pirate ship led by Captain Barracuda. When he and the crew discover a book left by the infamous pirate Phineas Johnson Krane, they must learn to read in order to decipher its contents and go in search of Krane’s hidden treasure. A satisfying tale packed with pirates, outlaws, danger and, in the words of its narrator, “no second chances.”

Discover Abigail’s triumphant story of friendship told through heart-touching letters and list