David Roberts

"Ada Twist’s head is full of questions. Like her classmates Iggy and Rosie, Ada has always been endlessly curious. But when her fact-finding missions and elaborate scientific experiments go too far, her frazzle parents banish her to the Thinking Chair. Will all that thinking change Ada's mind?"--book jacket.

"Iggy Peck is an architect to his core: When he's not making houses out of food, his head is up in the clouds, dreaming of design. So he's totally blown away when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion from world-famous ice cream baron Herbert Sherbert that's filled with countless rooms from all his favorite architectural periods- from the Victorian era to Art Nouveau. But something’s not quite right. . . Everyone says that the house is haunted,...

When her abuelo is injured at the local landfill, second-grader Sofia is determined to transform the dangerous Mount Trashmore into a park, taking on City Hall in the process.

"Aaron Slater loves listening to stories and dreams of one day writing them himself. But when it comes to reading, the letters just look like squiggles to him, and it soon becomes clear he struggles more than his peers. When his teacher asks each child in the class to write a story, Aaron can’t get a single word down. He is sure his dream of being a storyteller is out of reach . . . until inspiration strikes, and Aaron finds a way to spin a tale...

Tired of standing still on their old hill, several sheep board an airplane for a round-the-world adventure.

"Why do airplanes look the way they do? Why can't birds fly when they're first born? And why do some paper planes fly farther than others?...Discover everything there is to know about flight from Ada Twist, Scientist--from information about creatures that fly, to the history of aircrafts, to modern technology that allows us to soar through the air faster than ever!" --publisher's website.

A retelling of the familiar story of a girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, but still manages to meet her prince with the help of a fairy godmother.

Rosie, a brilliant inventor who dreams of becoming a great engineer, works on building a contraption to fulfill the dream of her great-great-aunt, Rosie the Riveter.