Dan Bittner

Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.

Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.

Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.

When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.

Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...

Splat the cat has a special valentine for a certain someone in his class.

When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.

"From the living legend and award-winning author of Hatchet comes a laugh-out-loud middle-grade romp about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down"--

Splat the Cat wants it to snow-but why is it so slow? A hilarious tale for beginning readers by the New York Times–bestselling author-illustrator! Splat the Cat can't wait for it to snow. All he wants to do is make a snowcat and throw snowballs! When he can't wait any longer, Splat decides to take matters into his own paws. Beginning readers will delight at Splat's hilarious attempts to make snow-and won't even know that they're learning...

1982: In an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City, among craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three teenage friends - Patrick, Matthew, And Hannah - are bound together by a terrible crime. 2008: In New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again - with even more devastating results. What really happened in those woods twenty-six years ago?