Arcadia Public Library

"At a high-society Shanghai wedding, the reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own personal motives and fed up with the way society treats women, forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day"--

This is a book about a bad seed. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. He has a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude. He's been bad since he can remember! This seed cuts in line every time, stares at everybody and never listens. But what happens when one mischievous little seed changes his mind about himself, and decides that he wants to be--happy?

"Yara is out to prove that she's the greatest scientist in town! Her annoying neighbor, Eddie, always wins the Science Fair, but this year is going to be her year. Like every good scientist, Yara starts with a question, makes observations, and comes up with a hypothesis... but each time she starts an experiment, her dog, Renzo, ruins it! Could Renzo be up to something more than making trouble?" --

"Attention, reader: You're going to LOVE this book! No, really, you are. It's got everything you could ever want: comedy, drama, action, heart. Plus--are you ready? It's got homework! Ahh yeah! And a trip to the best place ever, the dentist! Ahhhh yeahhh! Additionally--brace yourself--it's got raisins! Nature's candy. AHH YEAHHH! This book is so great, you won't be able to stop reading it. I DARE you not to have fun"--

"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...

"Bruce and the residents of Soggy Hollow tell a spooky story to get into the Halloween spirit"--

Saving the life of Good Witch Willow, Lilah Goodluck receives five unwanted predictions as a reward, and when the first three predictions come true, she is sent into a panic since, according to the fifth prediction, she only has a week to live unless she can stop the fourth one from happening.

Despite being warned that kittens are monsters, Ember the Chihuahua (who still aims for world domination) agrees to babysit a family of kittens for three days after the mother cat offers him an army in return.

An assortment of animals living separate lives discover they need each other when they have a chance encounter on a river.

"짜잔! 멋쟁이 콩 삼총사가 나타나면 모두의 시선이 집중되어요. 옷차림부터 걸음걸이, 자신감 넘치는 부드러운 미소까지 어디 하나 안 멋진 데가 없지요. 멋쟁이 콩 삼총사처럼 되고 싶던 소심하고 평범한 콩은 선글라스도 써 보고 머리에 스프레이를 뿌려 넘겨보기도 하고 멋쟁이들처럼 으스대며 걸어 보기도 했어요. 그런데 웬일인지 다 어색하기만...