Seven teens trapped underground after an earthquake discover that the only person who knows their location is a criminal who would rather them dead.   For sixteen-year-old Mollie Fox, selling earthquake insurance is just a way to keep her beloved Jeep on the road. But when the Big One actually does strike California, Mollie finds herself living her worst nightmare. Trapped in a basement office beneath a collapsed shopping mall, Mollie makes two startling discoveries: The company she works for is a scam, and her crooked boss has left her and her six coworkers for dead. Between the dangerous aftershocks and the possibility of starving to death, Mollie and her friends are fighting for survival. The only thing keeping hope alive is the amount of criminal evidence they find in the wreckage—enough to put their creepy employer behind bars for a very long time. That is, if they don’t die first . . .

When her childhood friend is accused of being a drug courier, the seventeen-year-old amateur sleuth travels to the scene to prove her friend’s innocence.   Mollie Fox has known Meredith Hughes since third grade. So when Meredith is busted for drug possession upon returning to San Francisco from a New York City fashion shoot, Mollie is certain her friend is being framed. Everyone else at Bayside High is convinced that Meredith is guilty simply because she’s wealthy, beautiful, and privileged enough to think she might get away with it. But you’re innocent until proven guilty, right? So when Meredith won’t defend herself, Mollie jets off to New York to investigate.   Mollie goes undercover in the glamorous world of high-fashion modeling, and discovers a dangerous network of drug dealers that uses models as couriers. But just when Mollie thinks she’s got this case figured out, she realizes that whoever set up...

Readers of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate will love Herbert's Wormhole 3: Aerostar and the 3 1/2-Point Plan of Vengeance, the thrilling and irreverent conclusion to the series that began with Herbert's Wormhole, which J. K. Rowling called "absolutely wonderful—fast-paced, inventive, engaging, and hilarious."Herbert, Alex, and Sammi were pretty sure their adventures in the future were over—until they discover that their old nemesis, GOR-DON, has come back to present-day Merwinsville to mess with things. And he's not alone. He is working for an evil genius, perhaps the greatest villain our heroes have yet faced—Sammi's future self, a.k.a. Aerostar, a power-mad, vengeance-fueled tyrant with twisted delusions of superheroism. This 111-year-old was the president of ClemCorp, the company responsible for trashing the Earth, the company the G'Daliens destroyed to save it, and now she wants revenge. And it's going to be up to our heroes to once again don the...

When a teenage amateur sleuth accompanies her best friend on a road trip to find her missing boyfriend, they drive straight into a small-town conspiracy.   With her BFF in a panic over her boyfriend’s disappearance, Mollie Fox decides she and Roberta need to take matters into their own hands if they hope to find Jaime alive. But soon after driving to the small town where Jaime was last seen, the two girls realize they may as well have taken a road trip to the Twilight Zone. For one thing, everyone in the town of Lost Camp, California, from the sketchy sheriff to the local news outfit, seems more concerned about a missing wallaby than the teenage boy who vanished into the canyon without a trace. Then there’s the gang of bikers who appear to have taken over Lost Camp, striking fear into the hearts of anyone who dares question them—or what exactly they are growing in their private “corn field.” Mollie is certainly glad when her...

Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon are off on their next Creature Keepers mission in the second book in this epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole.Gearing up for a triumphant return to South Florida, and their new position as honorary Creature Keepers, Abbie and Jordan are surprised when it turns out they are actually heading north of the border to Canada for their summer vacation. With Creature Keepers the world over abandoning their posts, the two siblings have been tapped for a special assignment: to serve as the new keepers for Syd—otherwise known as Bigfoot!Caring for Syd has never been a particularly difficult job—he's more than content to sit around in his treehouse and watch TV all day. But TV, in fact, is posing the newest threat to the Creature Keepers. Specifically, a reality-show host named Buck Wilde is dead set on tracking down Bigfoot and exposing him. And before long,...

For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the sequel to Peter Nelson and Rohitash Rao's Herbert's Wormhole, the breakout novel-in-cartoons that J. K. Rowling called "absolutely wonderful--fast-paced, inventive, engaging, and hilarious."Herbert, Alex, and Sammi are heroes in the year 2109, having successfully saved the planet from an alien invasion (or so everyone thinks). Everything is going just swimmingly until, inevitably, real aliens appear--the evil, destruction-obsessed Klapthorians. The crew is going to come clean, but then they meet a crazy old man--who turns out to be Alex, age 109--with a plan for saving the world all over again. Can they do it and still make it back home by curfew?The sequel to Herbert's Wormhole is chock-full of the same humor, imagination, and irresistible artwork as the first title. There are hijinks aplenty, not to mention skateboard stunts, time travel, and a whole lot of fake moustache...

RetailJust after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship sank in 14 minutes. More than 1,000 men were thrown into shark-infested waters. Those who survived the fiery sinking—some injured, many without life jackets—struggled to stay afloat in shark-infested waters as they waited for rescue. But the United States Navy did not even know they were missing. The Navy needed a scapegoat for this disaster. So it court-martialed the captain for “hazarding” his ship. The survivors of the Indianapolis knew that their captain was not to blame. For 50 years they worked to clear his name, even after his untimely death. But the navy would not budge—until an 11-year-old boy named Hunter Scott entered the picture. His history fair project on the Indianapolis soon became a crusade to restore the captain’s good name and the honor of the men who served under him. From the Trade Paperback edition.Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.

An epically hilarious, fully illustrated adventure seriesAbbie, Jordan, and Eldon band together with their cryptid friends in an attempt to save the world in the final book in this fun series.As summer draws to an end, Jordan and Abbie Grimsley are moving with their parents from the city into their long-lost grandfather's house in the Florida everglades. But before they settle into their new life, they're taking a completely ordinary, creature-free cruise to the Yucatan Peninsula.Despite the mysterious history and strange recent events that have surrounded the Grimsley family, there's no reason to suspect this relaxing vacation to the ancient site of the Chicxulub Crater (thought to be caused by a massive asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs sixty-six million years ago) will lead to the discovery of a never-before-seen super-cryptid and a final showdown between good and evil that will decide the fate of the entire world. Or is...

Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon travel to the snowy Himalayas to find the Yeti and save the world in the third book in the epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, Creature Keepers, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole.Although the Creature Keepers were able to defeat Chupacabra, their nemesis still managed to get his claws on one of Bigfoot's Soil Soles. Now he needs only one more item of mythological power to wreak havoc across the globe. Disturbances in China lead Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon to discover that Chupacabra is after the Yeti, a powerful but reclusive cryptid who hasn't been seen since the days Jordan's grandfather was running the Creature Keepers. Our heroes will need to find the Yeti first—and hopefully avert another catastrophe.

For kids who love the Origami Yoda and Zombie Chasers series comes the first book in an epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, starring some of history's best-known mythical beasts, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole.Twelve-year-old Jordan Grimsley has moved with his family into an old, abandoned house in Florida that belonged to his long-lost grandfather. While clearing stuff out of the attic, Jordan finds a scrapbook filled with old news clippings about local sightings of the mythological South Florida Skunk Ape. Determined to learn more, he persuades Eldon Pecone, the only other kid for miles, to come along on an excursion into the swamp, where many of the sightings occurred.This is when Jordan makes a startling discovery: not only is the Skunk Ape real, but Eldon is an elite member of a secret society of Creature Keepers--humans assigned to protect a variety of mythical beasts. And when they discover that the...

Herbert Slewg and his hapless, video game--addicted neighbor Alex Filby have stumbled upon what Einstein could only theorize about: a wormhole through the space/time continuum. They travel 100 years into the future of their no-longer-boring town and are mistaken for alien slayers . . . in a world run by a benevolent alien race with cheerful Australian accents and uncomfortably fake facial hair. Herbert, Alex, and their mutual crush, Sammi Clementine, century-hop across time in order to outwit a disgruntled “G'Dalien. By foiling his evil plot, they save the planet and become 22nd-century hometown heroes in this smart-alecky (but friendly), inventive, wry, and very visual creation.