Joy, to the World

The Messengers: The Greystone Secrets

Smek for President!: The Smek Smeries

Just For You!: The Two Tyrones

I Color Myself Different

Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle

Two Tribes

Where the Lost Ones Go

“If it wasn’t for the fused-with-Zyx thing, I suppose I would just be normal—whatever that means.”

When Felix Yz was three years old, a hyperintelligent fourth-dimensional being became fused inside him after one of his father’s science experiments went terribly wrong. The creature is friendly, but Felix—now thirteen—won’t be able to grow to adulthood while they’re still melded together. So a risky Procedure is planned to separate them . . . but it may end up killing them both instead.

This book is Felix’s secret blog, a chronicle of the days leading up to the Procedure. Some days it’s business as usual—time with his close-knit family, run-ins with a bully at school, anxiety about his crush. But life becomes more out of the ordinary with the arrival of an Estonian chess Grandmaster, the revelation of family secrets, and a train-hopping journey. When it all might be over in a few days, what matters most?

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Smek for President!: The Smek Smeries

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Just For You!: The Two Tyrones

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I Color Myself Different

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Where the Lost Ones Go

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