When Librarian Valerie Tremt tells three students that one of the library books, THE BOOK OF MEMORIES, is actually a time travel portal, the kids don’t believe her at first. But when they ask to see a dinosaur as proof and suddenly there is a terrifying T-Rex in the library, they realize she isn’t kidding around. Join on them on their hilarious time-travelling adventures.
Jackson Opus has always been persuasive, but he doesn't know that he's descended from the two most powerful hypnotist bloodlines on the planet. He's excited to be accepted into a special program at the Sentia Institute --- but when he realizes he's in over his head, Jackson will have to find a way to use his powers to save his friends, his parents and his government.
Cal Talaska can’t wait for his family to win the Great Grab Contest! The prize? Twenty minutes to grab anything in the world-famous Wish Shoppe! He knows his family will leave the competition in the dust, but first he has to convince them to compete!
Get your cape on with the DC Super Hero Girls™ --- the unprecedented new Super Hero universe especially for girls! Readers of all ages can fly high with the all-new adventures of Wonder Woman™, Supergirl™, Batgirl™ and some of the world’s most iconic female super heroes as high schoolers!
Join 11-year old stanley as he goes on a near-death adventure fraught with pesky relatives, killer lumberjacks, and poisonous pies in order to find his long-lost father.
Meet Gladys Gatsby: New York’s toughest restaurant critic. (Just don’t tell anyone that she’s in sixth grade.) When she’s mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world, Gladys must keep her identity a secret while juggling cooking and her dream career.
Luke Parker was just your average comic book fan until his boring, teacher’s pet, helps-old-ladies-across-the-street brother Zack got turned into a superhero. Luke can’t believe the unfairness of it all --- he’s the one with the encyclopedic knowledge of everything from Ant-Man to Wolverine! At least he can help Zack --- aka Star Guy --- with all the important parts of becoming a superhero, like using his newfound powers and deciding whether or not to wear a cape. When his brother gets into trouble, it's up to Luke to save the day!
On his thirteenth birthday, Alcatraz --- a foster child --- gets a bag of sand in the mail which purports to be his ‘inheritance’ sent from his father and mother. The Librarians, of course, immediately steal the bag of sand from him. This sparks a chain of events which leads Alcatraz to realize that his family is part of a group of freedom fighters who resist the Evil Librarians --- the secret cult who actually rule the world.
In an alternate 1875 America electricity is forbidden, Native Americans and Yankees are united, and eldritch evil lurks in the shadows. Trapped in underground prisons for a thousand years, the giant monsters known as Mangleborn have been all but forgotten --- but now they are rising again as the steam-driven America rediscovers electricity, their lifeblood. Archie Dent must assemble a team of seven young heroes to save the world in this action-packed, steampunk series.
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November's Books on Screen roundup includes the films The Running Man, Train Dreams, Wicked: For Good, Hamnet, Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas Ring and Eric Jerome Dickey's Friends and Lovers; the series premieres of "Death by Lightning" on Netflix and "All Her Fault" on Peacock; the season premieres of Apple TV+'s "WondLa" and Netflix's "Unicorn Academy"; the season finales of "The Morning Show" on Apple TV+ and "Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order" on AMC; the continuation of CBS's "Tracker" and "Watson," HBO's "IT: Welcome to Derry" and Apple TV+'s "Down Cemetery Road"; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of The Long Walk, The Roses, Caught Stealing, Looking Through Water and Freakier Friday.