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Find your way gently to sleep with this stunningly-illustrated bedtime visualization of a journey home from the far corner of the universe.Award-winning author and artist Jessixa Bagley offers your family a bedtime ritual she shares with her own son in The Back of the Universe. Starting from that farthest corner, move toward distant glowing lights, which slowly resolve into our solar system, the lights of our cities, and finally the stars on a sleepy child's ceiling.Hushed, loving text and gorgeously vivid pictures make this book a true art object to share with any young cosmonaut.

A middle schooler’s plan to fit in with her new friends by writing herself a fake love letter backfires spectacularly in this funny and all-too-relatable graphic novel perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and the Berrybrook Middle School series.Jackie and Milo have been best friends since they were born. Whether they’re reading comic books in their tree house hideout, playing video games, or spying on their neighbors using walkie talkies and code names, it’s always been the two of them versus the world. But in middle school, things are changing. Milo joins the soccer team and starts hanging out with a new crew. Jackie gets taken under the wing of Adelle, who wants to give her a total makeover and find her a crush. Suddenly, it seems like there are certain acceptable ways to be a girl or a boy, and Jackie starts to feel like everything about her is wrong. In an effort to get Adelle and her new friends off her back, Jackie sends herself an anonymous love letter. But her plan backfires, and soon Jackie’s secret admirer is all anybody at school can talk about. Now she’s wondering: Dear Jackie, how are you going to get out of this?

Jazzy gets competitive with a new girl in this second book in the middle grade graphic novel series about a young witch who struggles to find where she fits bestperfect for fans of The Okay Witch and Hooky!A new friend for Jazzy? Ever since Jazzy shared her love for cycling with her town, all the other witches want to learn how to ride a bike, and Jazzy is excited to teach them. She is the best cyclist around after alluntil a mysterious newcomer shows up who's a total whiz on a bike! On top of that, the new kid just might have Jazzy's best friend Aggie beat as the smartest witch in school. Jazzy and Aggie are determined to teach their smug new classmate a lesson. But as trading pranks turns into an all-out prank war, Jazzy starts to wonder if revenge really is the answer. Could their cozy town be big enough for more than one book-smart, bike-riding witch after all?