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A splashy, contemporary middle grade graphic novel from bestselling comics creator Johnnie Christmas!

Bree can’t wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees—until she’s stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she’s forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help.

With Etta’s training and a lot of hard work, Bree suddenly finds her swim-crazed community counting on her to turn the school’s failing team around. But that’s easier said than done, especially when their rival, the prestigious Holyoke Prep, has everything they need to leave the Mighty Manatees in their wake.

Can Bree defy the odds and guide her team to a state championship, or have the Manatees swum their last lap—for good?

Meet Fred, a boy who loves spaghetti. Fred's mom is an inventor, and when she builds a machine that can turn anything into spaghetti, Fred thinks life will be nothing but noodles from here on out. But when Fred himself accidentally ends up in the amazing spaghetti-making machine, Fred finds himself transformed. He becomes Super Spaghetti! (A superhero made entirely of spaghetti.) Is this spaghetti-crazy-boy-turned-superhero made of the right stuff to save his town?

With fun comics-style action, this is a superhero story that will have readers laughing and cheering for Super Spaghetti! Rebecca Donnelly's funny read-aloud text and Bonnie Lui's bright, action-packed art make this an irresistible story!

The world's greatest (and dorkiest) school-aged superhero, SUPER DWEEB, has been missing for weeks. Where is he - and can the world survive without his unique brand of doodle-powered crimefighting? In his absence, his home city has been overrun by imitators. Step forward fully automated hero Dweeb-Bot 4000, the ferocious Were-Pencil, and the mysterious Masked Eraser! Which of these horribly derivative new characters will turn out to be the greatest threat the city has ever faced? Can Andy's best friend, Mona, and his little brother, Oscar, hold the fort in his absence? And what great SECRET will be revealed on his return?

This is the seventh book in the Super Dweeb series, written and illustrated by Blue Peter 2021 award-winner Jess Bradley. Told with a mixture of text and full-color comic-strip storytelling, this unpredictable, anarchic adventure story is perfect for readers aged 7-9.

Andy may be a little socially awkward, but thanks to his awesome atomic pencil - which can bring doodles to life - he's far from an ordinary dweeb. Look out, evil-doers ... here comes SUPER DWEEB!

Mona, the cool new girl at school, has somehow talked Andy into becoming a costumed crimefighter. Now he's gained both an army of fans, and an arch-enemy ... and he can't decide which is worse!

The president-for-life of Andy's fan club is his little brother, Oscar, and while he may not have a superpower, Oscar's still super-determined to become Andy's sidekick. Andy is definitely not up for having a little kid following him around!

Meanwhile, witness the diabolical origin story of Doctor Eraser-Butt - the sinister super-scientist, who can obliterate objects from existence with the power of his behind.

This is the second book in the Super Dweeb series, written and illustrated by Blue Peter 2021 award-winner Jess Bradley. Told with comic-strip illustrations in full-color, this unpredictable, anarchic adventure story is perfect for readers aged 7-9.

Super-doodler Andy may have an awesome atomic pencil that brings his drawings to life, but he's still pretty new to the whole hero thing. Sure, he can handle small-time crooks ... but he's definitely not ready for jailbreaks, supervillain team-ups, and time travel!

Unfortunately for Andy, a terrible trio of criminals have leapt back in time from his future to stop him before he's ready. They're going to keep him from becoming the awesome future crimefighter he's destined to be!

So Andy's going to have to step up! With the help of his best friend Mona, he's going to have to pull off an AWESOME HEIST and set off on an incredible cross-time odyssey that will take him to the time of the dinosaurs and back.

Don't be late for this HILARIOUS time travel adventure!

This is the fourth book in the Super Dweeb series, written and illustrated by Blue Peter 2021 award-winner Jess Bradley. Told with comic-strip illustrations in full-color, this unpredictable, anarchic adventure story is perfect for readers aged 7-9.

Andy wishes that he had *awesome powers*, like the heroes of his home-made comic stories. But instead, he's stuck in the real world, where he has an annoying little brother, a super-weird teacher ... and everyone says he's a total dweeb.

Then one day, he discovers an oversized, glowing pencil on a school trip to the local toxic waste dump. He starts sketching and finds that he can redraw reality.

Now, thanks to the power of doodling, Andy can bring to life anything that he can imagine, erase his problems, and doodle his way of sticky situations. He's not just a dweeb ... he's a SUPER DWEEB! Even Mona, the ice-cool new girl at school, seems impressed.

But there's a twist in the tale.. because everything goes very wrong when little brother Oscar does some doodling of his own. Now there's a scribble monster on the loose! Run for it, Andy!

This is the first book in the hilarious new Super Dweeb series by award-winning author and illustrator Jess Bradley. Featuring comic-strip-style storytelling in full-color, this chapter book is perfect for readers aged 7-9.

At the Nutcracker School of Ballet in Harlem, young dancers learn to chassé, plié, and jeté with their Sugar Plum Sisters—but things don't always go to plan! As the girls encounter challenges both on and off stage, they'll need the support of their classmates to carry them through with aplomb.

Alexandrea Petrakova Johnson does not want to be a beautiful ballerina, and she does not want to leave her friends in Apple Creek. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop her ballet-crazy mother from moving them to Harlem, or from enrolling Al at the Nutcracker School of Ballet. Life is hard when you're the new ballerina on the block, and it's even harder when you're chosen to be the Sugar Plum Fairy in the school recital! Al's ballet classmates are going to have to use all the plum power they've got to coach this scary fairy!

At the Nutcracker School of Ballet in Harlem, young dancers learn to chassé, plié, and jeté with their Sugar Plum Sisters--but things don't always go to plan! As the girls encounter challenges both on and off stage, they'll need the support of their classmates to carry them through with aplomb.Readers will applaud the first two books in this beloved, New York Times best-selling series celebrating friendship, creativity, and most of all, dance.Plum FantasticAlexandrea Petrakova Johnson does not want to be a beautiful ballerina, and she does not want to leave her friends in Apple Creek. It's hard enough when her ballet-crazy mother moves the family to Harlem, but when Al is chosen to star in the Nutcracker School of Ballet's big recital, she'll have to contend with her terrible dancing and a rotten case of stage fright! Can her new classmates help her find her inner Sugar Plum Fairy?Toeshoe TroubleBrenda Black prides herself on her logical and orderly mind. She studies anatomy books and idolizes Leonardo da Vinci. Things go haywire, though, when her spoiled cousin Tiffany comes to visit. Sick and tired of Tiffany's bragging, Brenda snaps and says she owns an autographed pair of famous toe shoes. It's a ballet slipper-y slope as the lie gets out of hand, and she'll need her Sugar Plum Sisters to help get her back en pointe!

Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. He likes it that way—then no one can get in the way of him from keeping other other people safe. Super safe. He’s Stuntboy. He’s got the moves. And the saves. Except. There’s been one major fail.

He couldn’t save his parents from becoming Xs. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. But don’t talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball thing, and also, it gives Portico the frets.

What’s also giving him frets is his parents living on two separate floors in their apartment building. He’s never fully with one parent or the other. He’s in-between, all the time. The in-between time. And the elevator is busted, so to get between floors means getting past the bullies who hang in the stairwells.

So when Portico and new friend, Herbert, and best best friend, Zola, discover an empty apartment, unlocked, they are psyched. It’s a perfect hideout, and hangout, and it’s not half anyone’s…it’s all theirs. So they decide to make it their own…let’s say with stunts of the drawing kind. Problem is, that gives some Grown Up People the frets, which leads to double frets for Portico. And he’s not sure his arsenal of stunts can combat that.

Andy may seem like an ordinary dweeb, but he has an incredible secret. When he draws a picture with his ATOMIC PENCIL, it comes to life! And with awesome power comes awesome ... sneakiness!

Andy wants to take the day off school to see the new Gamma Guys movie. His ingenious plan is to draw a clone of himself. There's only one problem: His carbon copy doesn't much like taking orders!

In fact, Andy quickly starts to think that he's created his own EVIL TWIN. Uh-oh! Things quickly escalate into a crazy battle of doodlers.

Look out ... it seems like Andy's really met his match!

This is the third book in the Super Dweeb series, written and illustrated by Blue Peter 2021 award-winner Jess Bradley. Told with comic-strip illustrations in full-color, this unpredictable, anarchic adventure story is perfect for readers aged 7-9.

When super-school kid Andy draws a map with his awesome atomic pencil, he accidentally unleashes a powerful enemy. It's DWEEB versus DORK in his most epic adventure yet!

This is the fifth book in the Super Dweeb series, written and illustrated by Blue Peter 2021 award-winner Jess Bradley. Told with comic-strip illustrations in full-color, this unpredictable, anarchic adventure story is perfect for readers aged 7-9.

As the world's greatest school-aged superhero, Super Dweeb has a lot going for him. He has an awesome imagination, an atomic pencil that brings drawings to life, and a genius best friend! But will that be enough to save him in his ultimate adventure? Andy's hero skills are put to their greatest ever test as he faces a school full of SPIES, an invasion of zombie VEGETABLES from another dimension ... and the literal APOCALYPSE!

This is the sixth book in the Super Dweeb series, written and illustrated by Blue Peter 2021 award-winner Jess Bradley. Told with comic-strip illustrations in full-color, this unpredictable, anarchic adventure story is perfect for readers aged 7-9.

At the Nutcracker School of Ballet in Harlem, young dancers learn to chassé, plié, and jeté with their Sugar Plum Sisters—but things don't always go to plan! As the girls encounter challenges both on and off stage, they'll need the support of their classmates to carry them through with aplomb.

Brenda Black prides herself on her logical and orderly mind. She studies anatomy books and idolizes Leonardo da Vinci. But things go haywire when her spoiled cousin Tiffany comes to visit. Fed up with Tiffany's bragging, Brenda snaps when Tiffany implies that Brenda is not cultured enough to know who Miss Camilla Freeman is—Miss Camilla Freeman, the very famous prima ballerina. Brenda tells Tiffany that not only does she know who Camilla Freeman is, but she happens to own an autographed pair of her toeshoes.

At the Nutcracker School of Ballet in Harlem, young dancers learn to chassé, plié, and jeté with their Sugar Plum Sisters—but things don't always go to plan! As the girls encounter challenges both on and off stage, they'll need the support of their classmates to carry them through with aplomb.

Perfectionistic Jerzey Mae desperately wants to be a ballet dancer. But she's frustrated by her own lack of talent--and by her friends' jokes about her terrible dancing. Things get even worse when her little brother Mason attends her ballet class, totally embarrassing Jerzey in front of her prima ballerina idol, Miss Camilla Freeman. When Jerzey learns that Miss Camilla will be attending their recital, she's determined not to make a fool of herself again. But her efforts to learn her dance are continually thwarted--until she finds help in a very unexpected place.