Featured Books By Month & Year

We know you've read the Lightning Thief, but have you read the entire Percy Jackson and the Olympians series? The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian.

Based on Welsh mythology, The Prydain Chronicles follow the adventures of Taran, an assistant pig-keeper who dreams of becoming a hero, but fate seems to have other plans. This series begins with The Book of three and is followed in order by The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer and The High King.

When a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents-on the expedition from which they never returned-leads Jake and Kady to a strange world inhabited by a peculiar mix of long-lost civilizations, a world that may hold the key to their parents' disappearance.

A summer business mowing lawns turns a 12 year old boy into a tycoon when his neighbour pays him in stock market advice instead of cash.

Two girls, strangers to each other, meet when they are both flying unaccompanied to Toronto from Vancouver. For different reasons, they are both going to spend the summer with family friends whom they have never met, and both are unhappy about it. They both think the other girl is going to a better place. Hey, what if they switched identities? Would anyone find out?

Corey Johnson never dreamed Little League could be so humiliating. But that was before he joined the Feather Soft Tigers. It's bad enough that the team uniforms have pictures of toilet paper on them - thanks to their sponsor. But with a catcher who's afraid of the ball, a right fielder who falls asleep during the games, and a coach who knows zero about baseball, it looks like the Tigers are going straight down the toilet!

Nathaniel is eleven years old and a magician’s apprentice, learning the traditional arts of magic. All is well until he has a life-changing encounter with Simon Lovelace, a magician of unrivaled ruthlessness and ambition. When Lovelace brutally humiliates Nathaniel in public, Nathaniel decides to speed up his education, teaching himself spells way beyond his years. With revenge on his mind, he masters one of the toughest spells of all and summons Bartimaeus, a five-thousand-year-old djinni, to assist him. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things entirely, and when Nathaniel sends the djinni out to steal Lovelace’s greatest treasure, the Amulet of Samarkand, he finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion. Set in a modern-day London spiced with magicians and mystery,The Amulet of Samarkandis an extraordinary, edge-of-your-seat thriller with many unexpected twists. Following Bartimaeus and Nathaniel in turn, the story introduces us to two wonderfully memorable characters–destined to go through many adventures together and bound by a spell that is nearly impossible to break.

Cat and Jasper uncover a mystery about a soccer team that disappeared from their town and are led to a book about Celtic mythology, the origins of Halloween, and evil aspects of fairy lore.