Gunsmoke meets Dirty Harry in this series that inspired the major motion picture! In this volume, we learn Hex's savage origin, and how love played a crucial hand in forming the hard-edged man he is today.

When campers arrive at Camp Dakota, rumors start flying. The Fog Zombie is on the prowl, moaning and creeping through the thick fog that often settles on the lake. At first, the kids don't believe the rumors-until they find mysterious clues leading to the zombie! Can the campers track down the Fog Zombie with their science smarts? Or will it find them first? Look in the back of the book for experiments and more to help you become a science detective...

The series that inspired the major motion picture! Jonah Hex, a mysterious bounty hunter and thinking man's killer, was a hero to some, and a villain to others-and his name was spoken in whispers. He had no friends but he did have two companions: death and the smell of gun smoke.

Who is considered the world's first science fiction author? How did American science fiction begin? What sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? What were the "Pulps" and how did they predict with uncanny accuracy the 21st century world around us? The answers are here, along with detailed chapters dedicated to the founders of the genre and their modern-day successors. Discover the origins of your favorite page-to-screen science fiction movies, marvel...

"Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online comic, entitled A Fire Story, that went viral... Less than...

Superman has his hands full trying to keep his powers and fight criminals.

"Discover a world in which the families of organized crime never lost their stranglehold on the United States. Today is the day that Valentine Gallo becomes a made man, and it's also the day he learns the secrets behind the organization he has served since he was old enough to walk. But it is the mysterious hit woman Jagger Rose that will forever turn his life upside down. Be there when shocking secrets of this new world spill out onto the very first...

"In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious massacre that took place there in 1921. Across the Tracks introduces the reader to the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented...

When Newell's very special hat is taken away at school, he and his most talented friends concoct the perfect plan to get it back.

Seventh-grade bully Niko Kaylor, forced to keep a journal as a form of therapy, instead creates a how-to guide while plotting a lesson in bullying for the entire middle school, including the teachers and Vice Principal Jones.