Peter Lerangis
Peter Lerangis’s books have sold nearly 7 million copies and been translated into 35 languages. His nine N.Y. Times bestsellers include the entire SEVEN WONDERS fantasy series and his 39 CLUES books. His latest is BEASTIES, about five friends who become Central Park animals on a school field trip. THROWBACK is his exciting time-travel trilogy. Many of his novels have been Junior Library Guild selections, and his YA novel Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, won an ALA Schneider Award. He’s also performed on Broadway, run a marathon, rock-climbed in Yosemite during a 6.1 earthquake, and graduated Harvard with a degree in biochemistry.
Beasties; The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief graphic novel; Baby-sitters Summer
BEASTIES: BEASTIES is a drop-dead hilarious story of five kids transformed by a mysterious substance into park animals—a hawk, a parrot, a racoon, a rat, and a cockroach. They must use their animal skills (and reconcile their VERY different personalities) to find the antidote, in an adventure that involves an after-hours museum break-in, a zoo kidnapping, a saxophone full of spit, an art gallery that sells stolen goods, and an evil mastermind named Uncle Chester. SWORD THIEF:Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair Oh. Could they have been foolish enough to make an alliance? Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well-guarded… and the price to uncover them just might be lethal. BABY-SITTERS SUMMER: An all-star lineup, including Ann M. Martin, creates the first new Baby-sitters Club novel in over a decade! It’s a summer to remember for The Baby-sitters Club, with Mary Anne and Stacey staying in Stoneybrook while Kristy, Claudia, Dawn, Jessi, and Mallory head on adventures all across the map. Peter Lerangis sends Dawn Schaefer on a madcap adventure in a summer musical-theater camp.