Griffin: 1118 books

Who says kids are the only ones who can have fun during the summer? Oona Oodlethunk and her brother Bonk are ready to change all that. When they hatch a plan to create a "Collected Animals Meeting Place," Camp Woggle is born! But hold onto your sunhat, this isn't your typical "boondoggle-lanyard"...

From a National Book Award finalist comes a lively new spin on the classic vampire tale. When old-world dangers threaten a race of fruit bat hybrids, where can they run to? New York City, of course! And that?s where we meet the Livingstone kids?Lexie, Hudson, and Maddy?trying to blend their...

Everything is changing for Becket Branch. From subways to sidewalks to safety rules, she is a city kid born and raised. Now the Branch family is trading urban bustle for big green fields and moving to help their gran on Blackberry Farm, where Becket has to make sense of new routines, from feeding...

Fifteen Thalia Ramieraz has only one birthday wish so she'd better make it count. The strikingly beautiful Latina with innocent brown eyes and straight black hair is turning fifteen. Today is her Quinceanera— the day that she puts on her white princess gown, and first pair of high...

Brittany Sinclair is turning thirteen today, but her focus isn’t on birthday candles and girlish wishes. She isn’t concerned with cutting cakes or opening presents. The blonde fencing student is far more interested in medieval swordplay and war games. She'd rather spend her time sparring...

Diễm My Ly is sixteen and loves skate boarding down the streets of Philadelphia. She is the only child of immigrant parents and they will not let her forget it. They helicopter above her life like two overprotective guardians on the verge of a mental breakdown. Diễm hates leading...

Dr. Aalizabeth Hicks doesn’t believe in love or long term relationships. She has tried both and failed miserably at each. The beautiful African American physician isn't interested in finding or keeping a husband. She simply wants to go clubbing, drink lots of tequila and date inappropriate...

We’re at war against the aliens that have invaded Earth, fighting the only way we can—by surviving. I have more than most people do, but although I know it’s stupid to hold on, I can’t let go of what might have been—can’t help dreaming of something more. No matter how I tell myself it...

This one time, at band camp…aliens invaded earth. Sounds like a bad riff on an old joke, doesn’t it? Unfortunately for me and my friends, it’s all too true. I thought a mess like this only happened in the movies but, as I watch the alien ships hovering over the major cities, I suddenly realize...

Harey, the hare-brained rabbit, and his friends are playing with their video games just before breakfast when the computer suddenly goes off. They examine the wiring and Harey puts his screwdriver into the electricity plug and gets a nasty shock. During breakfast Harey sticks a knife into the toaster...

Never truly able to fit in, Kail Davis has the intestinal fortitude of a 400-pound gorilla inside the body of a 96 pound sixth grader. Luckily, he can always count on his precocious sister, Mani, to bail him out of his daily regimen of bullies and beatings. When Kail runs across a stone in his granny’s...

All her life, Katie has been chosen last for everything: the last picked on the playground, the last picked by her absent father, and definitely the last picked by boys—even her secret crush, Alex, friend-zoned her. This senior year, Katie is determined to come first. But then Alex asks her...

Surviving senior year is hard enough. Saving a friend might be impossible. When longtime friends Raine and Amelia meet new student Mel, a shameless flirt and open lesbian, it casts their feelings for each other in a different light. Soon the affection between the three girls grows into an attraction...

Introducing the Read & Bloom line for newly independent readers with a charming and quirky story about two unusual best friends . . . Celebrate with Agnes and Clarabelle! Agnes the pig and Clarabelle the chicken are best friends who love to celebrate holidays! They wear flower crowns...