A tuba player without a tuba and his jellyfish-imitating sister cope with their father's disappearance in a middle-grade novel both hilarious and moving by Mary Winn Heider, the author of The Mortification of Fovea Munson. Now in paperback! When Lenny Volpe, former quarterback of the worst professional football team in the nation, leaves his family and disappears, the Chicago Horribles win their first game in a long time. Fans are thrilled. The world seems to go back to normal. Except for the Volpe kids. Winston throws himself into playing the tuba, and Louise starts secret experiments to find a cure for brain injuries, and they're each fine, just fine, coping in their own way. That is, until the investigation of some eccentric teacher behavior and the discovery of a real live bear paraded as the Horribles' new mascot make it clear that things are very much Not Fine. The siblings may just need each other, after all.

The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy

Children's Books

Heider, Mary Winn

Arts, Music & Photography

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Stupendous Switcheroo: New Powers Every 24 Hours

What would happen if you woke up every single day with a different, surprise SUPERPOWER?! Find out in this zany, hilarious illustrated novel from Mary Winn Heider and Chad Sell. The morning of his mom's business trip, Switcheroo wakes up to discover he has telekinesis. Which is super convenient when he has to give his babysitter-robot the slip to fight crime all day. But it's less convenient when he's recruited to fight crime again the next day, only to realize he can no longer move objects with his mind. Instead, he can talk to cats! Fun, but not nearly as useful. A new superpower every day should be exciting, right? What could possibly go wrong?

Sell, Chad

Comics & Graphic Novels

Knopf Books for Young Readers

The Stupendous Switcheroo #2: Born to Be Bad

The Stupendous Switcheroo #3: Can't Go Home Again

The heroic cast of rag-tag, superpowered kids are back! In this third installment of the highly illustrated series, can the Stupendous Switcheroo change his fate from #1 undesirable prisoner to top student at the Valor Innovations Academy? When the Stupendous Switcheroo--Switch, for short--set out to rescue his mom from supervillain jail, he never imagined he could be captured instead. Now, Switch is plotting his escape--but a failed attempt quickly proves it's an impossible mission. But then, mastermind Vin Valor offers Switch a bargain: he can remain a prisoner... or he can join the Valor Innovations Academy instead. Switch is reluctant to choose between two evils--but maybe the resources at VIA will help him finally find a way back home. What he finds instead is a web of sinister secrets--and the family robot, Al, who has snuck into VIA to be Switch's sidekick in disguise! It turns out reclaiming his freedom isn't the hardest mission--but figuring out where to go next sure is....

A tuba player without a tuba and his jellyfish-imitating sister cope with their father's disappearance in this hilarious and moving novel by the author of The Mortification of Fovea Munson.&nbsp; When Lenny Volpe, former quarterback of the worst professional football team in the nation, leaves his family and disappears, the Chicago Horribles win their first game in a long time. Fans are thrilled. The world seems to go back to normal. Except for the Volpe kids. Winston throws himself into playing the tuba, and Louise starts secret experiments to find a cure for brain injuries, and they're each fine, just fine, coping in their own way. That is, until the investigation of some eccentric teacher behavior and the discovery of a real live bear paraded as the Horribles' new mascot make it clear that things are very much Not Fine. The siblings may just need each other, after all.

In this delightful and hilarious holiday picture book, can a troop of unicorns really save Christmas?\nIt's Christmas Eve, and Santa's reindeer are sick with the chicken pox. They can't pull his sleigh, so Santa needs some serious help. Will the unicorns save Christmas despite coming down with a case of hiccups? Or will Christmas have to be canceled?

The Unicorns Who Saved Christmas

Animals

Running Press Kids

Fovea Munson is nobody's Igor. True, her parents own a cadaver lab where they perform surgeries on dead bodies. And yes, that makes her gross by association, at least according to everyone in seventh grade. And sure, Fovea's stuck working at the lab now that her summer camp plans have fallen through. But she is by no means Dr. Frankenstein's snuffling assistant! That is, until three disembodied heads, left to thaw in the wet lab, start talking. To her. Out loud. What seems like a nightmare, or bizarre hallucination, is not. Fovea is somebody's Igor, all right. Three somebodies, actually. And they need a favor. With a madcap sense of humor and a lot of heart (not to mention other body parts), this is a story about finding oneself, finding one's friends, and embracing the moment.

Mortification of Fovea Munson

Literature & Fiction

LBYR Plus

The Mortification of Fovea Munson

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The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy

The Stupendous Switcheroo: New Powers Every 24 Hours

The Stupendous Switcheroo: New Powers Every 24 Hours

The Stupendous Switcheroo #2: Born to Be Bad

The Stupendous Switcheroo #3: Can't Go Home Again

The Stupendous Switcheroo #3: Can't Go Home Again

The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy

The Unicorns Who Saved Christmas

Mortification of Fovea Munson

The Mortification of Fovea Munson