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Boy vs. Shark

Boy vs. Shark

Published August 1, 2025

It’s the summer of 1975, and 10-year-old Paul wants to prove he’s brave enough to keep up with his best friend and the neighborhood cool kid. When everyone in his friend group sees the new horror blockbuster Jaws, Paul dares to watch it too. Turns out the movie was way more than he could handle. Now Paul sees the shark everywhere!…

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Celebrate the upcoming “The Bad Guys 2” movie with some read-alike titles of the hilarious, popular series!

3 kids with hiking gear on holding a map and looking lost in the mountains

Cousins Owen, Vivian, and Amy are so excited to go on a hiking trip with their parents in Sequoia National Park in California…and they are finally able to camp for 1 night by the lake on their own (just a short ways from the adults). Unfortunately, a massive earthquake blocks the path to where the adults are and they are forced to take the long way around to get back to the adult camp….

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Kess Pedrock’s favorite hobby is looking for megafauna fossils and skeletons. She lives in her family’s Unnatural History Museum in Wick’s End, and her best friend is Shrunken Jim, who happens to be a demon’s head in a jar. When Lilou Starling visits the museum one day, Kess is so excited to welcome a visitor her age…and she needs her help to uncover and break the mysterious curse in the center of Eelgrass Bog,…

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Whale Eyes

Whale Eyes

Published June 15, 2025

James Robinson invites you, the reader, into his world as he shares what it was like growing up with misaligned eyes. From his early struggles with reading in elementary school to later ambitions of becoming documentary filmmaker, James uses verse, illustration, and bold visual design to offer a chance to connect with him. James often breaks the fourth wall, speaking directly to the reader in a warm and engaging way….