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The radio culture of World War II America comes alive with this mischievous tale of two best friends who - inspired by the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet, and the Shadow - set out to right the wrongs of the world. Jeff Woodman’s delightfully funny narration is reason enough to listen to this book!

While young adults listen to this thrilling historical adventure, they’ll also gain fascinating insights into the historical and political complications of Prohibition. Set in the 1930s, it is the story of an Irish-American boy who concocts a dangerous plan to bust the liquor smugglers who are terrorizing his island home.

Punch is a young orphan boy, hungry and alone. When he is offered a job with a traveling medicine show, he takes it, although he has no idea what his work will be. But after he joins the troupe and sees the owner’s beautiful daughter, Judy, he no longer cares what he has to do, as long as he is near her. Soon the shady medicine show is on the run, just one step ahead of a sheriff who is determined to put them all in jail for peddling their bottles of elixirs. To save the day, Punch will have to take on the trickiest job of all: making people laugh.

In 1896, Mary Emmons is surprised when her grandmother takes her along to visit an old friend, in Toronto, named Bethlehem. Mary has led a sheltered life in New York City, far from hardship and danger. But when Mary meets the ancient woman, the personal history she shares removes the blinders from Mary’s eyes, forcing the girl to recognize prejudice and injustice for the first time. As a young girl, Suzanna, Mary’s grandmother, is sent to live with her uncle in the South. Seeing slaves for the first time, and the horrible way they are treated, Suzanna decides to run away, back to her home in Vermont.

Cam and her friend Eric are selling chocolate fudge and rice cakes door-to-door for charity. Eric can’t remember what to tell the customers. But Cam has no trouble. She simply looks at the speech and says "click". Then she stores a picture of it in her mind. When Cam sees a woman coming from a yellow house, she knows something is wrong. The woman is wearing a rain coat, but it isn’t raining. She’s wearing dark glasses, but the sun isn’t shining. And the yellow house looks deserted. Will Cam be able to solve the mystery with her amazing photographic memory?

Award-winning children’s author Joan Holub has penned over 70 books for young audiences in her decades-spanning career. In Zero the Hero, Holub offers a humorous and lighthearted look at one of math’s most overlooked, yet essential, figures - the number zero. All the other numbers scoff at Zero’s value, but as soon as one of them gets into trouble, guess who lands on the scene to save the day?

Cam Jansen and her best friend, Eric Shelton, are at a charity function with their mothers to raise money for local firefighters. When the host's pearl necklace goes missing, the luncheon turns into a whodunit, and all the guests are suspects. Can Cam use her photographic memory to identify the culprit?

School Library Journal hailed Michael J. Daley’s Space Station Rat as a “thoughtful and satisfying adventure.” Here Daley delights young listeners with his first early reader chapter book. Pinch really wants soup for lunch, but he’s too lazy to make it himself. So he decides to pay a visit to his friend Dash. Together, Pinch and Dash attempt to make a cheesy spinach and potato soup. But will their effort be for nothing when they begin to disagree on the amount of pepper and hot sauce the soup needs?

James’ dad has to get creative to convince him to eat healthy foods. Given broccoli, James wants to know what else he can have. So his father offers tasty alternatives such as gum prechewed by children with very clean teeth and dirt walked on by cooks wearing the finest French boots. His father even has helpful suggestions for alternatives to eggs, lasagna, milk, and oatmeal - and soon, James realizes that healthy foods aren’t so bad, after all.

Emily Jenkins pens tales that spark the imagination of young listeners. In this sequel to the wildly popular Toys Go Out, Lumphy, Stingray, and Plastic return for a whole new set of adventures. Their little girl is leaving for winter vacation, but she’s forgotten to take them! In these rousing stories, the lovable toys spend their time alone surviving the perils of a blizzard, rescuing the toy mice from the vacuum, and, of course, having a rockin’ dance party with the washing machine.

There is nothing Seth enjoys more than riding his horse, Quest, through the frozen wilderness of northern Minnesota. But Seth’s father, a game warden, warns that danger may be nearby. Someone is breaking the law by hunting black bear and moose for profit. While following animal tracks deep into the woods, Seth and Quest discover a moose cow and her calf. Suddenly, gunshots ring out! The calf is wounded and its mother killed. Seth and the poachers he was warned about have just come face-to-face.

Hai Li Bu lives in a small Chinese village. Even though he is a good hunter, there is a drought, and he can no longer find enough food to feed the village. One day, while hunting deep in the forest, Hai Li Bu rescues the Dragon King of the Sea’s daughter. As a reward, Hai Li Bu is given the ability to understand the speech of animals. There is one condition - if Hai Li Bu tells anyone about his gift he will turn to stone. Soon Hai Li Bu is able to feed everyone again. Then the animals tell him a huge storm is coming that will destroy the village....

Eleven-year-old Mandie Shaw is nervous about her trip to visit her Cherokee relatives. The journey through a North Carolina mountain forest is full of dangers like stalking panthers, and she wonders if her dead father’s kinspeople will even like her once she arrives. But the trip to the Indian reservation is only the beginning of Mandie’s many adventures. When Mandie and her friends get lost in a secret cave, they discover a pile of gold left behind by a legendary Cherokee chief. Is it really cursed, as legend insists?

Since creating the Mouse and Mole series, Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award winner Wong Herbert Yee has become a favorite among young fans all over the world. In this delightful novel, Mole frets because Halloween will soon be here, and Halloween can be scary. But he perks up at the idea of a pumpkin-carving contest. This could be fun! As Mole cuts his design in the pumpkin, he begins to worry that Mouse might copy his idea. Fortunately, it’s not long before Mole stops his worrying—for nothing can keep good friends apart.

Wong Herbert Yee’s Mole and Mouse, Fine Feathered Friends received a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor. When Mouse upsets Mole by accidentally dirtying his floor, the two reach a compromise so both of their floors can be clean; and then the pair has time to plant a garden! Through a series of shared experiences and misunderstandings, Mouse and Mole discover how they can get along quite well despite their differences.

Siblings Benjamin and Lucy are nature enthusiasts who embark on a family trip to New York City. They soon discover that the city wildlife is just as fun and diverse as the animals back home in the Florida Everglades.

The beloved American Girl History Mysteries features intrepid girls faced with intriguing situations. The author of this installment, Kathryn Reiss, has received the ALA Best Book for Young Adults Award. In Riddle of the Prairie Bride, it's 1878 and Ida Deming and her papa are looking forward to meeting his mail-order bride. But is this woman really who she claims to be?

Having fled the turmoil of Scotland, Elspeth Monro is learning to love her life in 1775 North Carolina. She likes her new friend and her weaving apprenticeship. But as Loyalists and Patriots strive to recruit her neighbors, a shadowy figure threatens her family.

When Petey Corbin is born in 1920, no one knows about cerebral palsy. After struggling to care for her frail infant who is often racked by seizures, Petey's mother reluctantly places him in an asylum. There, he is labeled an idiot and ignored. Few people look beyond his twisted body to see the intelligence in his eyes. Then another young resident, Calvin Anders, arrives in Petey's ward. As he learns to understand Petey's garbled sounds, Calvin becomes his spokesman and best friend.

Fourteen-year-olds Elliot and Vincent live worlds apart, but both dream of a better life. Learning to run the Montana ranch that he will some day inherit, Elliot dreams of being an astronaut. In Africa, Vincent must deny his thirst for knowledge of the world beyond his village in order to become a Masai warrior. Forced to quit school, his only link to the outside world is a short wave radio.