Chris Grabenstein

"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--

A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.

"Four lucky kids go on a scavenger hunt inside Mr. Lemoncello's Gameworks factory, where they compete for a chance to win a titanium ticket"--

"It's the start of another action-packed summer for the wise-cracking Boyle and straight-arrow cop (now Chief of Detectives) John Ceepak down the Jersey Shore as they do their best to help Danny's friend, an attractive young nurse, who claims she has been falsely accused of aggravated assault by a prestigious Sea Haven resident. Ceepak's unshakable code of honor is tested when he trusts that the nurse is telling the truth. It's stretched to the limit...

"Fred, a stray dog who became the star of the show Dog Squad, is working on a new show called Cat Crew-but when he notices the felines acting strange, he wonders if the cat crew is being electronically controlled"--

"P.T. and his friend Gloria must solve a mystery at the world's wackiest motel: The Wonderland"--

"Twelve-year-old Jake McQuade-the smartest kid in the universe-goes to a camp for geniuses, where he goes up against the Virtuoso quantum computer, the smartest machine in the universe"--

When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.

With the help of his stepmother, his dog Zipper, and new friend Malik, Zack Jennings faces ghosts and zombies at his new middle school, which is said to house a lost Confederate treasure.

P.T. and Gloria need a great plan to ensure that Wonderland can beat a slick new attraction in the "Fun In The Sun" contest.