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David Lubar

Book Description Watch out for the road weenies! A town is overrun by road weenies--a.k.a. joggers--who never smile. A girl thinks she's too old for Halloween...until she finds a special pair of gloves. A boy takes a shortcut to an unexpected place. A mummy takes his revenge, one little piece at a time.... Welcome to the weird and wacky world of award-winning storyteller and master of the macabre, David Lubar. These thirty-five tales ranging from the silly and offbeat to flat-out horrifying are just right for reading alone or for telling aloud in the dark. As an added bonus at the end of the book, David answers the question most frequently asked of writers with a behind-the-scenes look at the various ways he got the ideas for the stories in this collection. Don't be a weenie. Read these stories. If you dare!

Rick Acker

Book DescriptionKirstin and Arthur Davis are the successful partners of the Davis Detective Agency. They have an unblemished record of taking down locker thieves. But now, they are up to their necks in a real international mystery. Guaranteed fiction!

Cynthia DeFelice

Book Description Take your friends where you can find them! Old Granny is lonely, living way out in the country with no one to talk to. She’s happy enough, though, as long as she has her beans. One night a thief climbs through thewindow of her little cabin while she’s sleeping and steals her beans! Old Granny sets out to see the sheriff. Along the way, she meets an odd assortment of talking creatures: a snake, a pecan, a cow patty, a prickly pear cactus, and an alligator. Soon they’ve all befriended Old Granny, and joined forces to help her foil the thief in this humorous tale that glows with the bright, bold colors of the Southwest.

Stan Smith

Book Description Detective Stanwick is back! And you are about to be challenged by 30 exciting mysteries. Each one takes only about five minutes to read. Every puzzle combines features of the traditional whodunit (physical clues, red herrings, means,motive, opportunity, time sequences) with logic puzzles (true-false statements, matching suspects with occupations, even a little math). Are you up to a little sleuthing and deductive reasoning? · The Case of the Suspicious Fire: Did the owner try to burn down his own store? Or was he really home asleep? · The Megaplast Mystery: Someone's threatening the life of The Megaplast Corporation's vice president. Can you find the culprit? You'll get some confusing facts, but if you use your smarts, you'll arrive at the answer. And many more!

Patricia McCune Irvine

Book DescriptionPrincess Loralyn lives in the large stone Palace with her father, King Bevan, her mother, Queen Avia, and her younger brother, Galen, who will some day be the king. Loralyn desires not only to learn the secret of what a lovely princess is and to understand the task of becoming one, but wishes to visit her very own valley, north beyond the Greenest Hill, which also seems impossible. As time passes, she meets the Simple Ones who fear a Dragon in the forest, the wise River Ladywho tries to help, and the princes who come one by one to win the hand in marriage of the lovely princess—a fairy tale.

Gilbert Parker

"Oh, look," said Junia. "Look -- Carnac!" She pointed in dismay. Carnac turned to see Denzil, and he saw a portion of the bank of the river disappear with him. He looked down -- in another moment he had made his way to the river's edge. The girl remained at the top. The boy said to her: "You stay there. I'll tell you what to do." "Is -- is he killed?" she called with emotion. "Killed! No," he called back to her. "I can see him move. Don't be frightened. He's not in the water. It was only about a thirty-foot fall. You stay there, and I'll tell you what to do." But that was just the beginning.

Randel W McGirr

Book DescriptionWhat do you do when you find out that a number of school officials and the entire sheriff?s department are running a drug lab in a nearby abandoned mine? If you?re a kid living in a small desert town, there?s not much you can do besides disrupt class and play silly pranks. But if you happen to get a little inside information, the odds can tip in your favor. Robbie has heard all of the wild stories and the warnings to stay away from the Black Turtle Mine, but he has to investigate the mine for himself. After happening upon what looks like a drug-manufacturing operation, Robbie?s life is completely disrupted. He is framed for bringing methamphetamines to school and thrown into a juvenile detention center, and hismother is accused of being unfit. With the school principal and counselor in league with the sheriff and his deputies in a drug ring, the chances of Robbie getting fair and unbiased treatment seem pretty unlikely. Schoolmates...

Dietlof Reiche

Book Description Vicki plans to spend her summer vacation waitressing at her father's seaside restaurant, Ye Olde Seashell Room, a must-see tourist destination with seashell-covered walls and a two-hundred-and-thirty-year old figurehead from a lost ship, the Storm Goddess.But when the bay goes dry and the Storm Goddess suddenly appears, Vicki and her small community are thrown off course. Now the town's greedy mayor sees dollar signs from potential new tourism, a nosy reporter smells something fishy,and Vicki's haunted by ghosts! Can she, along with her friend Peter, manage to get aboard and (continued)

Rh Disney

Everyone's favorite big-eared little elephant finds his way to the skies in this uplifting Little Golden Book. With artwork from the 1940s, allof the original charm and beauty of the Disney classic can be found in this vintage book.

Susan Hill

Book Description A box set containing three I Can Read Books about Stuart Little based on the hugely popular and successful Stuart Little and Stuart Little 2 movies.