Critiques en avant-premièreJason R. Lady

Rachel's last summer before middle school isn't turning out how she hoped. Rachel has heard rumors about middle school: the older kids are mean, and the schoolwork harder. She wishes summer would never end so she wouldn't have to go. Inspired by her stuffed animals, Rachel draws The Timeduck, a wizard who has power to control time, so he can make the summer endless, and Attack Pig, a bodyguard to protect her. Rachel has no idea she is drawing with a magic pen and, before she knows it, The Timeduck and Attack Pig are real!

As The Timeduck works his magic, Rachel just wants to enjoy endless summer. Instead she finds herself contending with days that bizarrely loop on repeat, and dinosaurs that emerge from cracks in time. The Timeduck is consumed with fulfilling his mission regardless of who it hurts. With the help of her best friend, dramatic theater kid Cooper, and her noble bodyguard Attack Pig, Rachel must outwit The Timeduck before irreparable harm is done to time itself!

Before Monster Problems, there is Super Problems, the story of how Blue Hood first learned of the magic pen. Scott draws the comic book adventures of himself, Blue Hood, and their friends as the Alpaca Defense Squad fighting their archenemy the evil Stinky Sock. No one knows Scott’s using a magic pen and everything he draws becomes real. The middle schoolers and an alpaca named Bruce are thrown into a real-life superhero adventure! At first, they think it’s great. They’re living their superhero fantasy! What more could superhero fans want? But saving the day is not as easy as it looks! The Stinky Sock is a clever nemesis, and Bruce the alpaca is obnoxious and demanding. The Alpaca Defense Squad must unite as a team, master their powers, put up with Bruce, and solve their super problem…before the Stinky Sock rules the world! Text will be in PDF format.

Sixth grader Brad makes the mistake of drawing instead of paying attention in class. When Brad’s parents ground him from drawing, his bratty little brother Daley rubs it in. Later that night, Brad is surprised when a mysterious crow delivers a pen to his bedroom window. Missing his beloved drawing and frustrated with his brother, Brad usesthe pen to draw a Daley-Destroyer, a giant slimy green creature that he envisions “getting” Daley. To Brad’s surprise, the pen is a magic pen, and the Daley-Destroyer comes to life, just as he imagined it, slime and all, and starts going after Daley! To makes things worse, only he and Daley can see it! Can Brad erase his monster problem before it’s too late? Text will be available in PDF, Mobi, and ePub formats.