HOT OFF THE PRESS
Here it is, the newest of the new, just hitting the shelves, or coming very soon. You’ll find all the latest in my many series, as well as new projects and stand-alone novels right here!
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BRAND NEW: SLEEPLESS !!!
Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you only had a few extra hours each day? Well, Mickey, Skye, Levi, Cyrus, and Thea have plenty of extra time … because they no longer need to sleep.
They have no idea why this is happening to them. All the know is that they need to keep it a secret from their families and friends. Meanwhile, they’ll use their extra hours to become better than everyone else.
Each of them thinks they’re alone in their sleeplessness. But once they find each other, they realize it can’t just be an accident. Now they have to ask the big question: What’s keeping them awake at night?
GET HYPER(GIFTED)!!!
Does this robot look familiar?
I’m so thrilled to spread the news about HYPERGIFTED, the third book in the series that began with UNGIFTED and SUPERGIFTED, now in bookstores and libraries everywhere.
School has never been a problem for Noah Youkilis, the smartest kid at the all-gifted Academy of Scholastic Distinction – at least not until he gets an admission letter from Wilderton University. The last thing he wants is to go from middle school straight into college. Why can’t his life just be normal?
At least Wilderton is allowing Noah to bring a friend for summer term – and he has the perfect candidate: Donovan Curtis. So much for Donovan’s carefully-laid plans for an entire summer of doing nothing.
Once they arrive on campus, Noah is determined to fit in – and to him that means joining the top-secret Society of the Gavel. But becoming a Gaveler is harder than it seems, and it’s made all the harder when the boys tangle with Wilderton’s mascot, a 200-pound pig named Porquette. It’ll take all their smarts to keep a hog-sized secret, fix a runaway AI program, and fend off an army of angry college kids who aren’t exactly thrilled to be upstaged by a middle school genius.
It’s going to be a summer to remember!
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SNOOP IS A TRIPLE BESTSELLER!
Wait – is that a red panda on the cover of my newest book, SNOOP?
Yes, but I can’t explain why. It would be a gross violation of any sense of Spoiler Alert. All I can say is it’s pretty amazing what you can see if you look hard enough.
If Carter hadn’t been checking his phone, he might have seen his brother coming down the ski slope. And if Carter had seen his brother in time and avoided the crash, he might not be stuck at home for weeks, with both legs in casts.
He’s never been so bored. Just to connect himself to the world, he starts checking out the live feeds from cameras around town.
Before he knows it, he’s hooked – watching his classmates when they don’t know he’s looking, spying on neighbors, and discovering some other highly unusual things – things that no one else is noticing. Things that just might be illegal.
But the biggest problem is once you start snooping, the hardest thing is to look away.
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OLD SCHOOL IS A NY TIMES BESTSELLER!
No, it’s not a glitch. That’s an actual DODO on the cover of OLD SCHOOL!
Dexter Foreman is twelve … going on eighty!
He’s lived at The Pines retirement village with his grandmother since he was six years old, and as a result, he gets along better with senior citizens than kids his own age. He’s homeschooled by the residents up until the day the county’s truancy officer shows up and announces that Dex has to go to the local middle school.
At school, Dex sticks out like a sore thumb. He dresses like a grandpa (and can be just as cranky). His taste in movies and music is decades out of date. Only a few students find him intriguing. For most, he is a weirdo . . . or a target.
Raised among a generation of Mr. Fix-its, Dex can repair seemingly anything with his trusty Swiss Army Knife—which comes in handy since the ancient school building is falling apart. It also ends up putting Dexter in a situation that could either make or break his school career.
Dexter would do anything to return to his old life at The Pines. But when his wish finally seems to be coming true, his old and new worlds collide in a way that surprises everyone—and Dexter most of all.
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FAKER IS HERE!!!
Trey knows how the trick works: His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his father makes connections. Soon, there’s the con, where Trey’s dad suckers the other parents into giving him money for one of his schemes. Once the money’s in the bank, Trey, his sister, and their dad go on the run … until they set up somewhere else and start again.
Trey believes his father when he says no one’s getting hurt. After all, these parents have money to spare.
Still, Trey’s getting tired of running … and lying … and never having a friend longer than a few months. But how do you get your family to stop lying when your lives depend on it?
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SLUGFEST
Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School—so good, in fact, that’s he’s already playing on the high school’s JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices have kept him from earning a state-mandated credit for eighth-grade P.E. To graduate, he has to take Physical Education Equivalency—P.E.E., commonly known as “Slugfest”—in summer school.
Yash meets his fellow “slugs”: Kaden, an academic superstar who’s physically hopeless; twins Sarah and Stewart, who are too busy trying to kill each other to do any real PE; Jesse, a notorious prankster; Arabella, who protests everything, including mandatory gym class; and Cleo, a natural athlete who has sworn off sports.
But when one of them tries to blow the lid off a scandal that could make all their time in summer school a waste, Yash is forced to take drastic action. Teaming up with the most hapless crew in school can really surprise a person. And their teacher might be hiding the biggest surprise yet. . . .
SLUGFEST’S first review is in … and it’s a star from Kirkus! READ IT HERE!
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MIXED UP IS FINALLY HERE!
What happens when you lose your mind … and someone else finds it?
Theo and Reef don’t know what’s happening to them. They’ll be doing something totally normal and they’ll suddenly have flashes of memory – but the memories belong to someone else. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to … vanish.
For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom.
For Theo, it’s strange because the new memories give him freedom he doesn’t have with his bossy dad.
Theo and Reef are complete strangers, living in completely different parts of the city. But they share something very weird and mysterious … and it’s becoming more and more important that they find each other and stop the memory slide before they’ve forgotten their own lives entirely.
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THE ALL-NEW AND IMPROVED POP
One of the books I’ve always
been most proud of is POP, my young adult novel about the oddball friendship between a high school football player and a retired NFL linebacker who suffers from CTE.
But a lot has changed since POP first came out in 2009. The diagnosis of CTE barely existed back then. And I’ve always wished I could re-release POP with the very latest information about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
That’s finally a reality, thanks to my editors at HarperCollins and Scholastic Canada. The issue of sports and brain injuries has never been more urgent.
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