Toot Books presents an all-new haunting middle-grade series, RECESS IN PEACE. This spine-chilling, lightly serialized series will tackle kid's horror as we've never seen it before... on the playground, during recess! Every scare will occur on Fall Valley Academy's playground. Every story will stem from the hero's main feelings while on a mind-melting recess adventure. In our first installment, DAWN OF THE DEAD KID, Pacey Graham is the twelve-year-old shy new kid at Fall Valley Academy. His new school is the biggest place ever. At least it'll be easy for Pacey to hide in the shadows, just the way he likes it. But there's something else lurking in the darkness with him, something that will root through his feelings and force him to take a new bite out of life. We all know being the new kid is tough, but being the new kid who's turning into a ZOMBIE… that's just deadly.

Introducing The Incredible Adventures of Toot and Jimmy! A new illustrated chapter book for early readers by Toot Books Inc.This action packed comic and hilariously written story surrounds a 10-year-old boy named Jimmy Jam Jeremiah and his magical fart, Toot Toot Jeremiah, and how they discover and use the power of STINK to vanquish villains that threaten their town! Of course, Toot and Jimmy also tackle the meaning of friendship, the challenges of being in elementary school, the sacred art of recess, and most importantly… FARTS! Children of all ages won’t be able to put this book down! Make sure to join in on all the stinky adventures by visiting www.tootbooks.com or following us on all social platforms @tootbooksinc

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.