Of Sorcery and Snow: The Ever Afters

The Zoo at the Edge of the World

The House That Wasn't There

The Magnificent 12: The Call (Magnificent 12, 1)

The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes

Summer of the Mariposas

The Creature Department

Team Human

Shiloh meets Raymie Nightingale in this funny and heartwarming debut novel about a ten-year-old that finds himself in a whole mess of trouble when his new friend Maisie recruits him to save the dog next door.

Hank Hudson is in a bit of trouble. After an incident involving the boy’s bathroom and a terribly sad book his teacher is forcing them to read, Hank is left with a week’s suspension and a slightly charred hardcover—and, it turns out, the attention of new girl Maisie Huang.

Maisie has been on the lookout for a kid with the meatballs to help her with a very important mission: Saving her neighbor’s dog, Booler. Booler has seizures, and his owner, Mr. Jorgensen, keeps him tied to a tree all day and night because of them. It’s enough to make Hank even sadder than that book does—he has autism, and he knows what it’s like to be treated poorly because of something that makes you different.

But different is not less. And Hank is willing to get into even more trouble to prove it. Soon he and Maisie are lying, brown-nosing, baking, and cow milking all in the name of saving Booler—but not everything is as it seems. Booler might not be the only one who needs saving. And being a hero can look a lot like being a friend.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Of Sorcery and Snow: The Ever Afters

Shelby Bach, 2014

The Zoo at the Edge of the World

Eric Kahn Gale, 2014

The House That Wasn't There

Elana K. Arnold, 2021

The Magnificent 12: The Call (Magnificent 12, 1)

Michael Grant, 2010

The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes

Wade Albert White, 2016

Summer of the Mariposas

Guadalupe Garcia Mccall, 2012

The Creature Department

Robert Paul Weston, 2013

Team Human

Justine Larbalestier, Sarah Rees Brennan, 2012