Nobody likes to smell bad, or to wear worn out or old clothes and accessories. Is there any special fact that can make a child change this concept? By reading the smelly sock you and your child will find out.

Discover the incredible life of Nelson Mandela, the first Black president of South Africa, in this book from the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series.

Drew "The Dart" Howard has always been the quarterback for his touch football team. Now the boys are playing full pads tackle football for the first time ever. The team is looking to the Dart to lead them to victory again. But Drew has started throwing ducks-his dad's term for a bad pass-instead of darts. He's lost his confidence and fallen into a quarterback crisis. Everyone has a suggestion for fixing his throws, but nothing is working. Soon,...

Josh and his father, Steve, go to Lightning Ridge, an outback opal-mining town in Australia, in the hope of making a fortune mining opals. All does not go to plan when there is a catastrophic event in the mine they enter. Steve, searching for help for Josh, comes across a team who are working to retrieve extremely rare and precious opalised dinosaur bones. Lightning Ridge is the only place in the world where these precious artefacts are found. They...

Pedro Menendez sailed to Florida on his flagship, the San Pelayo, named after a knight who had successfully defeated the Spanish Moors 850 years earlier. There were twenty cabin boys on board the San Pelayo.Ship boys or cabin boys were from ages eleven to thirteen. Many boys were from poor families who could neither clothe nor feed them. They were servants to the officers and worked long hours, often doing the necessary dirty work onboard the ships.This...

Sam has the rules of slackerhood down: Don't be late to class. Don't ever look the teacher in the eye. Develop your blank stare. Since his mom left, he has become an expert in the art of slacking, especially since no one at his new school gets his intense passion for the music of the Pacific Northwest-Nirvana, Hole, Sleater-Kinney. Then his English teacher begins a slam poetry unit and Sam gets paired up with the daunting, scarred, clearly-a-gang-member...

When Ben and his grandson Charlie build a fort out of blankets one evening, little Charlie feels the fort is magic. They fall asleep in the fort, and little do they know that the next morning they will wake up in a magical land. Every 200 years, humans are brought to this land for a very specific purpose. After one of their new friends goes missing, the two begin a journey of discovery and purpose. On this adventure of a lifetime through a land...

A traveling wizard. New apprentices. A haunted castle. Master Wizard Zarlaam spends his summers searching for those with hidden magic then teaches them how to use their gift. Including his strict code of conduct. Bershome Paxtare is being groomed to assume the lordship of Wes Tyree while assisting with the training of Master Zarlaam's apprentices. Between fending off raiders and the romantic aspirations of the local barons and their daughters, Bershome...

After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby--the highlight of the museum's new...

Follows the adventures of Asta, a boy who dreams of becoming a mage and finds himself in possession of a book that will help him on his journey.