Hilo and D.J., with the help of Polly, the magical warrior cat, travel through a mysterious portal and battle bad guys, face disgusting food, an angry mom, and powerful magic to save their friend Gina.

No mission is too small for an inept intergalactic hero and his talking backpack.

Until the day I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together, we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others... I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but just as brave. Now we're looking for the others--including John....

Jedi Master Yoda teaches Luke how to use the Force. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true--he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen...

"A mysterious doorway! (Sure, it's in the grossest restaurant in the world, but that doesn't make it any less mysterious, OK?) Behold! What lies beyond?! An evil centipede? An alternate universe? A few decent explanations? VRRRING! NING! NING! Hey, was that a CHAINSAW?! Let's see if you can read and run at the same time... GO!"--Page 4 of cover.

Two years after the disappearance of her father, seventeen-year-old Liv and her friend capture an alien in the Iowa countryside, and instead of turning him over to the authorities, they choose a different path.

"By the fall of 2007, one well-timed leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in first contact has sent the country into turmoil, and it is all Cora Sabino can do to avoid the whole mess. The force driving this controversy is Cora's whistleblower father, and even though she hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government-and redirected it to her....

Hilo and his friends must save the world from monsters from another dimension.

Leia and Luke's undercover diplomatic mission to Tibrin turns into a royal mess when Luke is captured, and Mattis Banz gets the chance to act like one of his heroes.