Juvenile / Curiosities & Wonders

The Ultimate Everything Kids' Fairy Tale Book: Get to know enchanted princesses, fairies, and majestic horses

by Charles Timmerman

From our bestselling Everything Kids' series comes The Ultimate Everything Kids' Books. Featuring hundreds of puzzles, jokes, recipes, and activities, these books are sure to provide days of fun for any kid...

Ghost Mysteries: Unraveling the World's Most Mysterious Hauntings

by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld & Nathan Hale

Readers will delve deep—if they dare—into the history of ghosts and their portrayal in literature, art, and pop culture. From the spooky world of haunted castles to the subject of ghost-hunting, this book...

Dogs Have the Strangest Friends (And Other True Stories of Animal Feelings)

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson & Shirley Felts

The author of the adult best-sellers When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love has reached into his treasure trove of stories about the emotional lives of animals to tell fifteen fascinating stories...

The Giant and How He Humbugged America

by Jim Murphy

Two-time Newbery Honor Book author has written an amazing account of one of America's most famous hoaxes! When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869,...

Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers: Gross but True Things You Don't Want to Know About Your Body

by Francesca Gould & JP Coovert

You won't be able to resist picking this one!

Itching to know what bugs live in your eyelashes, why you get goose bumps, or how ants can be used to heal a wound? Use this delightfully disgusting collection of...

Dead Strange: The Bizarre Truths Behind 50 World-Famous Mysteries

by Matt Lamy

This amazing collection contains entries on everything from the bizarre to the horrific, and from the spooky to the just plain confounding. The book gives essential background information on the events and the...

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader For Girls Only!: Mystery, History, Gossip & Secrets

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

We locked the bad boys at the BRI in the water closet and let the smarter gender run things for a while. The result: For Girls Only!--our secret stash of stories just for girls of all ages. In what other book...

Girlwood

by Claire Dean

Polly Greene has always been considered strange, a girl who can see a person’s true colors, a thirteen-year-old more comfortable foraging in the woods with her eccentric grandmother than hanging out with friends....

The Other Side: A Teen's Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal

by Marley Gibson, Patrick Burns & Dave Schrader

It used to be you needed a crystal, a psychic, or a Oijia board to make contact with the spirit world. So who would think science would make it possible for just about anyone to experience a ghostly connection?...

God Went to Beauty School

by Cynthia Rylant

A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist.

Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Earth might...