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The Gecko & Sticky: The Greatest Power

Could you choose between a superpower and a friend?

The evil treasure hunter Damien Black needs some quick cash—so he robs the local bank. But Damien Black didn’t figure Dave Sanchez into his plan. Dave’s been itching to try out the Invisibility Ingot in his magical wrist band, and here’s the perfect opportunity to make like a superhero! So Dave and Sticky set off after the robber, determined to retrieve the bank’s money. The Black mansion is a house of hysterical horrors, but somehow he and Sticky manage to navigate the maze and escape with the cash. Asombroso! Dave thinks he’s home free, but Damien Black isn’t one to give up easily—more than the cash, he wants Dave’s wrist band, and he’s got a dastardly devious plan that even an invisible boy won’t be able to slip out of.

Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians; Action & Adventure;Humorous Stories |
978-0-375-84377-8 | $12.99

Also available as an unabridged audio CD, unabridged audiobook download, eBook and a hardcover library binding.

The Gecko & Sticky: Villain's Lair

Dave Sanchez is an average boy with an after-school job and a pet gecko named Sticky. All very normal—until the day Sticky talks. Sticky tells Dave a wild tale of a former life of crime, searching for Aztec gold with a treasure hunter named Damien Black, and of a magical Aztec wristband with shiny gold power ingots that will give the wearer super powers. Dave doesn’t believe a word—until Sticky shows him the wristband. But while Sticky managed to escape with the wristband, Damien Black has the power ingots. So the lizard and treasure hunter each have something the other wants . . . very badly.

Filled with outrageous adventures, over-the-top characters, snappy-funny dialogue, and a tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek narration, this new series is sure to be a hit with young superheros everywhere.

Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians; Juvenile Fiction - Action & Adventure; Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories | 978-0-375-83522-3 | $12.99

Also available as a hardcover library binding.

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Confessions of a Serial Kisser

Evangeline Logan wants a kiss. A spectacular, heart-stopping, life changing kiss. Somehow The Crimson Kiss (a romance novel she’s become obsessed with) and Four Steps to Living Your Fantasy (a self-help book she’s reading) have fused in Evangeline’s mind and sent her on a quest for a kiss. But the path to perfection is paved with many bad kisses—the smash mouth, the ear licker, the “misser.” The phrase “I don’t kiss and tell” means nothing to the boys in her school. And worse: someone starts writing her name and number on bathroom walls. And worst of all: the boy she's just kissed turns out to be her best friend’s new crush. Kissing turns out to be way more complicated than the romance novels would have you believe.

Trade paperback | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Girls & Women; Juvenile Fiction - Humourous Stories; Junvenile Fiction - Love & Romance| 978-0-375-84249-8 | $9.99

Also available as a hardcover, hardcover library binding and a ebook.

Runaway

"It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."

Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean.

Through tough and tender and angry and funny journal entries, Holly spills out her story. We travel with her across the country--hopping trains, scamming food, sleeping in parks or homeless encampments. And we also travel with her across the gaping holes in her heart--as she finally comes to terms with her mother's addiction and death.

Runaway is a remarkably uplifting portrait of a girl still young and stubborn and naive enough to hold out hope for finding a better place in the world, and within herself, to be.

Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Runaways; Physical & Emotional Abuse; Family - Orphans & Foster Homes | 978-0-375-83522-3 | $15.95

Also available as a hardcover library binding and a trade paperback.

Swear to Howdy

Joey Banks is a walking adventure. He's funny, daring, mischievous-and frequently in trouble. Or he would be if anyone found out about half the stuff he's done. But Rusty Cooper knows how to keep a secret. And Joey's the best friend he's ever had. But then comes a secret that is at once too terrible to tell and too terrible to keep. A secret so big it threatens to eat them alive. What would a true friend do now?

Wendelin Van Draanen has written her most compelling, richly layered book yet. It's a thought-provoking look at the boundaries of friendship and what it really means to be true.

Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Adolescence; Juvenile Fiction - Boys & Men; Juvenile Fiction - Friendship| 0-375-82505-3 | $15.95

Also available as a trade paperback.

Flipped

The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." He says: "It's been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort." But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he's thinking there's more to her than meets the eye, she's thinking that he's not quite all he seemed.

This is a classic romantic comedy of errors told in alternating chapters by two fresh, funny new voices. Wendelin Van Draanen is at her best here with a knockout cast of quirky characters and a hilarious series of misunderstandings and missed opportunities. But underlying the humor are two teens in transition. They are each learning to look beyond the surface of people, both figuring out who they are, who they want to be, and who they want to be with.

Winner of the California Young Reader Medal!

Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Love & Romance; Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories| 0-375-81174-5 | $14.95

Also available as a hardcover library binding and a trade paperback.