Central Kansas Library System

"Brother and Sister Bear are very excited to be going back to school, but there's one big question on their minds: who will be their new teacher? Why, it's none other than Miz Bearly, known for giving lots of homework, loving pop quizzes, and always looking a bit grouchy. But the cubs soon realize that Miz Bearly can also make learning fun, and if they just give her a chance, they may even find this tough teacher is a big softy at heart"--

Reminded of what life was once like by the opening of a first-grade time capsule, seventeen-year-old Alexis now faces the pressures of senior year in high school, her parents' total focus on work, and the recurrence of her twin brother's leukemia.

"When cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start. Outgoing Riley misses her Muscogee cousins but is sure that she and Maya will be instant BFFs. Meanwhile, introvert Maya misses her parents, on active duty in Japan, and just wants some space to herself. At school, Maya joins Robotics Club and Riley bonds with fellow gymnasts. Just when they start to feel at home, their...

The Hardy brothers investigate injuries to students at the Rising Phoenix Martial Arts Center to see if they are connected and if someone at the school is to blame.

In 1994, Fig looks back on her life and relates her experiences, from age six to nineteen, as she desperately tries to save her mother from schizophrenia while her own mental health and relationships deteriorate.

In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) are educated in everything from calculus to spell casting. Alex, a young weirn who has been primarily homeschooled, is drawn to the Nightschool.

Some sixteen-year-olds babysit for extra cash. Some work at the mall. Becca Williamson breaks up couples. Becca knows from experience the damage that love can do. After all, it was so-called love that turned Huxley from her childhood best friend into a social-world dictator, and love that left Becca's older sister devastated at the altar. Instead of sitting on the sidelines, Becca strikes back--for just one hundred dollars via PayPal, she will trick...

"When her new friend at Broomsfield Academy, popular girl Isabelle, shares a huge secret and makes her promise to keep it, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck finds it difficult to keep her word, especially with a nosy classmate snooping around"--

"When eight-year-old Nora arrives at the Park Ridge School for Girls in 1932, she is sure there’s been some mistake. She can’t imagine why she and her little sister, Patsy, were torn from their mother only to be subjected to the cruel whims of the house matron, Mrs. Morris. When their mother fails to rescue them week after week—and Mrs. Morris drops hints that their mother may be a “fallen woman”—Nora begins to doubt...

"En su primera novela de grado medio, la galardonada autora e ilustradora de libros ilustrados, Angela Domínguez, cuenta una conmovedora historia basada en sus propias experiencias al crecer como mexicoamericana. Stella Diaz adora los animales marinos, especialmente su pez Betta, Pancho. Pero Stella Diaz no es un pez Betta. A los peces Betta les gusta estar solos, mientras que a Stella le encanta pasar tiempo con su madre y su hermano y su mejor...