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After the battle of Seattle, Trenton and Kallista--along with their friends, Plucky, Simoni, Angus, and Clyde--fly their mechanical dragons south toward San Francisco, looking for any sign of Kallista's father, Leo Babbage.

Following clues left by Kallista's missing father, Leo Babbage, Trenton and Kallista head west aboard their homemade mechanical dragon to search for answers. Instead, they find a blackened forest, ruined buildings, a small underground city, and themselves in the middle of a civil war.

Using the tips, truths, and stats, two dads pack super sports savvy and important math and financial concepts into a fun and heartwarming first novel for kids.

In the third book of this series, pitcher Carter Jones and his Forest Park All-Stars move on to sectionals competition, but Carter and his cousin, catcher Liam McGrath, must deal with grudges that threaten to break apart their team. 

Two weeks of competition remain to decide the final teams for the Little League World Series. The anticipation is high, as it's possible last year's finalists will return--Carter and Liam's teams. Can these best friends play against each other?

Eleven-year-old cousins Liam McCarthy, a catcher, and Carter Jones, a pitcher, grew up playing baseball together and have become closer than brothers. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match, however, they must first beat their number-one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face on their road to the championships.

Little League players Liam and Carter are still adjusting to all the recent changes after Liam's family moved across the country to California. Liam is faced with having to prove himself all over again to his new teammates. Carter, on the other hand, is having his best season ever. His pitches are unstoppable and it looks like his team might just sweep the competition. That is, until a new pitcher hits the scene. Rachel joins the all-boy team and proves she's a force to be reckoned with.

When fourteen-year-old Matt Collier, a die-hard New York Yankee fan, gets a chance to time travel to any baseball game in history, he becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series.

From the author of Sticks & Stones, a realistic middle-grade story with a dash of magic about a girl who sees other people's thoughts in bubbles above their heads. Twelve-year-old Sophie Mulvaney's world has been turned upside down after her mom loses her job and breaks up with Pratik, who Sophie adored. But then: Sophie starts seeing bubbles above people's heads that tell her what they are thinking. Seeing other people's thoughts should be cool, but it's actually just stressful-what does it mean that Pratik wishes she and mom were eating with him?

What if a machine could bring back the ones we love? From New York Times bestseller Lauren DeStefano comes a captivating middle grade tale of loss, love and hope. In this beautiful and poignant novel, acclaimed author Lauren DeStefano tells a story love and loss, and what it means to say goodbye. When Emmaline Beaumont's father started building the ghost machine, she didn't expect it to bring her mother back from the dead.