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Pippa Morgan's Diary
by Kate Larsen Annie KelseySometimes a little white lie can land you in a whole lot of trouble...Pippa's new BFF Catie Brown is perfect. So perfect, that Pippa tells her a teeny tiny lie-that she once auditioned for Voice Factor-to impress her. And it works. It works so well, in fact, that Catie enters Pippa into the school talent show.The only problem? Pippa can't sing. Not at all. In fact, her singing is so bad it scares the neighbors. But if she doesn't participate in the talent show, Catie will know she lied. But if she does participate, the whole school will find out what a horrible singer she is...including Catie! It's up to Pippa to put an end to this pesky problem!
Pippa Park Crush at First Sight (Pippa Park #2)
by Erin YunJoin Pippa Park as she juggles friendships, bullying, crushes, and family in the sequel to the compelling drama-filled middle school book Pippa Park Raises Her Game.Korean American Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in. Eliot, her math tutor—and the cutest boy at school—is finally paying attention to her. And Marvel—her childhood friend—is making her required volunteering much more interesting. But things with the Royals, her new friends and teammates who rule the school, still feel a bit rocky. Especially because Caroline, a head Royal, would like nothing more than to see Pippa fail. So when Pippa is faced with hosting the annual Christmas Eve party that could make or break her social life, how can she say no? Will Pippa make enough money to cover the costs while juggling crushes and everything else? With courage and determination, Pippa sets out to host the party, find the perfect dress, pick the right boy, and stay true to her real self. GREAT FOR READERS AGES 9–12 Bonus Content in the Book includes: Author Q&A, Book Club Questions, and Glossary of Korean Words. Bestselling AAPI Book Perfect for the School Classroom or Library! Complimentary Guides: AAPI Discussion and Anti-Racism Resource & Common Core Language Arts Guide on our website Tween Book Club with printable activities on our website Includes word games, make-your-own-book playlist, fortune teller, and discussion questions The Series is a Contemporary Reimagining of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Pippa Park Raises Her Game (Pippa Park #1)
by Erin Yun&“Pippa is a magnetic heroine, funny and good-hearted.&”—Booklist Readers will cheer on Pippa Park in this wonderful middle school book about friendships, bullying, crushes, and family. In this relatable story, Pippa reinvents herself and discovers who she really is on and off the basketball court.Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. When Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself. At school, Pippa juggles old and new friends, a crush, and the pressure to get As and score points while keeping her past and family&’s laundromat a secret from her elite new classmates. But when Pippa begins to receive a string of hateful, anonymous messages via social media, her carefully built persona is threatened. As things spiral out of control, Pippa wonders if she can keep her old and new lives separate, or if she should even try. NEW! Get the companion book, My Journal About Life, to extend the story with awesome quizzes, listicles, and writing activities! (Sold separately) GREAT FOR READERS AGES 9–12 Now an AR Quiz! Bonus Content in the Book includes: Discussion Questions, Author Q&A, and Korean Language Glossary with Pronunciation Guide Perfect for the School Classroom or Library! A Contemporary Reimagining of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Use as an AAPI Pick in May Complimentary Common Core Language Arts Guide for Teachers on our website Tween Book Club with printable activities on our website. Includes word games, make-your-own-book playlist, fortune teller, and discussion questions.
Pippi Goes on Board (Pippi Longstocking)
by Astrid LindgrenOutrageous Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. She's been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too--like buying and eating seventy-two pounds of candy, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what it's like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi's long lost father returns, and she might have to leave Villa Villekulla! From the Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning author of the classic Pippi Longstocking, this is another rollicking adventure that's sure to please fans of the freckled, fun-loving little girl. "Lovers of Pippi Longstocking will welcome this rollicking tale of a topsy-turvy world in which Pippi and her next-door neighbors put into practice some ideas about good times." - School Library Journal
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking Ser.)
by Astrid LindgrenTommy and Annika have a new neighbor: red-haired, freckle-faced Pippi Longstocking, who has upside-down braids and no parents to tell her what to do. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus, and more!"A rollicking story." —The Horn Book
Pippi in the South Seas (Pippi Longstocking)
by Astrid LindgrenWhen Pippi&’s father, the king, sends for her, she decides to take her best friends Tommy and Annika with her to Kurrekurredutt Island. The island is fantastic and Pippi has one crazy adventure after another! Pippi is even made a princess---Princess Pippilotta. But will Pippi and her friends really want to live on the island forever, never to return to Villa Villekulla? "Any reappearance of the irrepressible Pippi Longstocking is cause for celebration. This installment is no exception." -The New York Times
Pirate Haiku
by Michael P. SpradlinThe ship sails avast!I have lost the map, mateys!No shaking booty!Come sail the seven seas aboard the notorious Black Thunder! Landlubbers have a first-mate seat to the grizzly life of eighteenth-century pirates--as told by the surprisingly poetic if salty One One-Leg Sterling.Shiver me timbers, never before have we poppets been privy to the gritty goings-on of the rum-running, treasure-thieving, marauding masters of the open sea from the inside out. . . until now! From trading rum for buxom beauties to fighting those limey British bastards, this book reveals the swaggering derring-do of these plundering and treacherous buccaneers--17 syllables at a time!
Pirate's Passage
by William GilkersonNova Scotia, 1952. Not exactly the place you'd expect to run into pirates. But an old mariner, his boat driven ashore in a gale, brings with him enough stories about buccaneers and their lore to make it seem that he must have had firsthand experience of the pirate life. But how is that possible? Captain Charles Johnson's uncanny knowledge of seamanship's dark side fuels the imagination of the young boy he befriends, setting the boy on his own journey of mysterious adventure.
Pirate: A Thriller (Nick Mciver Adventures Through Time Ser. #2)
by Ted BellIn this third of the &“brilliant&” (Bookreporter) Alexander Hawke series, intrepid intelligence operative Alex Hawke must thwart a deadly alliance between China and France before they annihilate everything and everyone in their rush toward world domination.Aboard a ship in the south of France, an American spy faces certain death for the vital, explosive intelligence he possesses. In Paris, a ruthless and powerful descendant of Napoleon has forged an unholy alliance with China for its growing nuclear arsenal, poised to send the world to the brink of a gut-wrenching showdown. Now, in a maelstrom of razor&’s-edge danger, Alex Hawke must enter the nightmare visions of madmen to defuse an axis of evil no one could have predicted—and no living soul would survive. Packed with unrelenting action, glamour, and high style, Pirate is a spellbinding thriller. Be prepared for Alex Hawke&’s most daunting and heart-pounding mission yet.
Pirates
by David L. Harrison Dan BurrGlamorous, swashbuckling, daring adventurers? Pirates have had good publicity for a long time. But they were really a bunch of misfits, thugs, and ne'er-do-wells who spent most of their time bored, waiting for a few moments of excitement and rich booty that could very well get them wounded or killed, or captured and executed. Still, a pirate's life was chosen by many, and this poetry collection describes the highs and lows and everything in between for those who swore the oath of the Brotherhood.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, First Edition
by Irene Trimble Disney Book GroupJack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are back for a whole new adventure. Read all about their swashbuckling exploits in this exciting adaptation of the Walt Disney Pictures film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization
by Elizabeth RudnickA novelization of the upcoming Walt Disney Studios film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, starring Johnny Depp as the unforgettable Captain Jack Sparrow! The newest film in the box-office smashing franchise Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Men Tell No Tales features the return of fan-favorites Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, and Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa, alongside franchise newcomers Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall), Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner), and Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent).
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Brightest Star in the North
by Meredith RusuBased on the upcoming Walt Disney Studios' film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, this middle grade novel features the untold backstory of the breakout heroine, Carina Smyth. Follow Carina's adventures, as well as her passion for astronomy, as she uncovers one of the biggest mysteries of the Caribbean.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court: Day of the Shadow (Legends of the Brethren Court)
by Disney PressAn army of shadows has been amassed. Its one goal: to destroy the Pirate Lords for their Shadow Master--an alchemist who has created a special gold that grants him unfathomable power. But the soothsayer, Tia Dalma has other plans for the Lords and cannot allow them to be destroyed. So she calls on the one man who can turn the tide--Captain Jack Sparrow...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court: Rising In The East (Legends of the Brethren Court)
by Rob KiddIn the second book in the Legends of the Brethren Court series, Jack must work with Mistress Ching and Sao Feng to stop the Shadow Lord. But pirates are notoriously bad at working as a team . . . .
Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean (Legends of the Brethren Court)
by T. T. SutherlandIn Book One of Legends of the Brethren Court, Captain Jack Sparrow must reluctantly rely on the help of his untrustworthy first mate, Barbossa, and a ragtag crew as they take on the Shadow Lord.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court: The Turning Tide (Legends of the Brethren Court)
by Disney PressIn the midway point of the epic Legends series, Jack Sparrow finds himself lost in the peaks of the Himalayas as an army of shadows amasses to destroy the Pirate Lords.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court: Wild Waters (Legends of the Brethren Court)
by Disney PressVolume five finds Jack and his crew traveling to Europe in their quest for the mysterious Shadow Gold, created by the Shadow Lord so that he might attain unfathomable power.
Piratica II: Return To Parrot Island (PIRATICA)
by Tanith LeeArtemesia Blastside, 17Position - the Most Admired Pirate in England.Partner - Handsome Felix Phoenix.Enemy - Little Goldie Girl, a Monster.Heart set - on winning back Lost Treasure Beyond the War-Torn Seas.
Pish Posh
by Ellen PotterUltra-snobby Clara Frankofile has everything an eleven-year-old girl could want. She's fabulously wealthy, she lives alone in a penthouse apartment with its own roller coaster, and all of New York City is afraid of her! Each night at the Pish Posh restaurant, she watches the glittery movie actresses and princesses, and decides who is important enough to stay and who she will kick to the sidewalk in disgrace. But Clara's world is turned upside down when she discovers that a peculiar mystery is happening in the restaurant, right under her upturned nose.With the help of a whip-smart twelveyear- old jewel thief, Clara embarks on a wildly dangerous mission through the streets of New York to solve a 200-hundred-year-old secret.
Pit of Vipers
by Carolyn KeeneThis New York Times bestselling girl detective has one hot summer ahead!River Heights is in an uproar when the local zoo reports that one of its exotic venomous snakes has been snake-napped! It's only a matter of hours, though, before an anonymous tip leads the police to the missing critter-- in the home of Nancy's friend, Charles Adams. Nancy isn't sure what to think of all this-- until Charles appeals to her to help him prove his innocence. She can't resist taking the case. If he really is innocent, perhaps she can help clear his name. If he's guilty, she'll be able to satisfy herself to that fact as well.
Pitch Partners #2 (Eat Bugs #2)
by Heather Alexander Laura D'Asaro Rose WangThe second book in the sensational series inspired by the true story of two friends who landed a deal on Shark Tank. Sixth-grade students-turned-entrepreneurs are on a mission to save the world, one bug at a time!After snagging second place at their school's startup pitch competition, Hallie and Jaye are confident that their edible bug business is the food of the future. Now their ultimate goal is to get Chirps chips--tortilla chips made with cricket powder--on every grocery store shelf. First, they get to move on to the county pitch competition to try and win tickets to New York City to compete in the next round. But there are a few bumps along the way, with their cricket supply shrinking, no kitchen to cook in, and trouble brewing between the two teammates. Can they clinch first place, or will their business go bust before it really begins?Based on the true story of a sustainable protein start-up company, this illustrated novel is a reimagining for a middle-grade reader. Chirps founders Rose Wang and Laura D'Asaro met as freshmen at Harvard University and cooked up the concept of selling chips made with cricket flour to help Americans feel more comfortable eating bugs. Together, Rose and Laura appeared on the TV show Shark Tank to pitch their idea and landed a deal with Mark Cuban. Chirps chips are now sold in stores across the nation.
Pity Party
by Kathleen LaneDiscover an "absurd, funny, and thought-provoking" book perfect for "anyone who has ever felt socially awkward or inadequate" (Louis Sachar, author of Holes and the Wayside School series).Dear weird toes, crooked nose, stressed out, left out, freaked outDear missing parts, broken hearts, picked-on, passed up, misunderstood, Dear everyone, you are cordially invited, come as you are, this party's for youWelcome to Pity Party, where the social anxieties that plague us all are twisted into funny, deeply resonant, and ultimately reassuring psychological thrills.There's a story about a mood ring that tells the absolute truth. One about social media followers who literally follow you around. And one about a kid whose wish for a new, improved self is answered when a mysterious box arrives in the mail. There's also a personality test, a fortune teller, a letter from the Department of Insecurity, and an interactive Choose Your Own Catastrophe.Come to the party for a grab bag of delightfully dark stories that ultimately offers a life-affirming reminder that there is hope and humor to be found amid our misery.
Pixar Treasury
by DisneyMike and Sully, Buzz and Woody, Lightning and Mater-relive their thrilling stories and more in this giant-sized graphic novel treasury featuring all of your favorite Disney-Pixar friends. Every classic film from the legendary animation studio is retold here in vibrant comics that jump off the page, drawn by Disney's own master artists. This exciting storytime treat is a must-have for every Disney-Pixar fan's collection!
Pizza Boy and the Super Squad
by Dan AllenIt&’s PB versus J in the greatest food fight in American history. For Peter Barnes&’s whole life, all of Surly has pushed him and Jaylee &“J&” together to make Surly&’s favorite pair: PB&J. But all manner of sticky villainy explodes when Peter decides he&’s done being the town poster boy. With J looking for some serious payback, it is the perfect chance for work-from-home criminal mastermind Soccer Mom to finally make her move. With the town's beloved J as her secret weapon, Soccer Mom begins a covert war in the underworld of Surly. Soon J and Peter are caught up in a war of espionage and food conspiracy that leads to epic dance battles, crazy car chases, and mysterious food poisonings. With the help of a squad of misfits, Peter takes up the mantle of Pizza Boy. Now it&’s up to Pizza Boy and the Super Squad to stop Soccer Mom and her criminal underworld before everything in Surly is under her control.