The Chicken Squad is back for their sixth (mis)adventure, and this time there's a headless bear on the loose and the Chicken Squad's beloved Barbara has gone missing! A "lip-bitingly funny" (School Library Journal) chapter book from the bestselling author of Click, Clack, Moo and Cyclone. It's fall in the backyard, and though the weather is cooling down, the crime solving business is still hot. When the Chicken Squad's neighbor Anna McClanahanahan comes looking for her missing hamster one morning, it's an easy case to solve (Ziggy always takes a stroll from 6:30 to 7:15 a.m.). The Chicken Squad is now ready to settle in for a relaxing day of knitting-that is, until Ziggy points out that Barbara, the Chicken Squad's caretaker-the one who FEEDS THEM!!-is missing! And not only that, but there have been sightings of a headless bear in the neighborhood! Will the Chicken Squad be able to save their beloved Barbara and get some breakfast? Or will this case be too much to bear?
Small spirits cause big trouble in this eighth book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike's Spooksville series.
Are there such things as fairies and gnomes? Leprechauns and elves? Most people, including Adam, would say no. But one day a whole herd of magical creatures invades Spooksville. At first they play childish pranks, and Adam and his friends are happy to welcome them. But quickly the pranks turn cruel, leaving Adam, Sally, Watch, and Cindy fighting for their lives.
Where did these little people come from? And how can Adam and his friends make them go away?
A secret portal leads to danger and darkness in this seventh book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike's Spooksville series.
At Sally's insistence, the gang sets out to find the cool and sophisticated Bryce Poole. He went off to investigate the Secret Path a week ago and hasn't been seen since. When they find his backpack abandoned next to Madeline Templeton's tombstone, they know he's gone to a different realm. Sally, Adam, and Watch travel through the tombstone's portal and find themselves in a better version of Spooksville: it has all the same buildings, except everything is brighter and more beautiful. Even the cheeseburgers taste better. But something dark lurks beneath this sunny Spooksville...
My FANGtastically Evil Vampire Pet, the epic spin-off of Mo O'Hara's New York Times bestselling My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series features an aspiring evil scientist, paranormal pets, and plenty of hilarious summer camp shenanigans. Welcome to Camp Mwhaaa-haa-ha-a-watha! This summer is going to be epic. Epically evil, that is. 'Cause I'm going to Evil Scientist Summer Camp! No annoying little brothers. No annoying zombie goldfish. Just me, my best friend Sanj, our notebook of evil plans, and my truly evil (and totally forbidden) vampire kitten Fang. We've got it all planned out. Okay, so maybe I didn't expect for the totally not-evil Geeky Girl to show up, or for Sanj to find a new partner to work with, but there's no way I'm going to let them ruin my summer. Evil Emperor of the Camp, here I come! Signed, The Great and Powerful Mark
From #1 NYT bestselling author Victoria Schwab comes a sweeping, spooky, evocative adventure, perfect for fans of "Stranger Things" and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead . . . and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost.
So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger.
When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. And when Cass meets a girl who shares her "gift," she realizes how much she still has to learn about the Veil -- and herself.
And she'll have to learn fast. The city of ghosts is more dangerous than she ever imagined.
NYT bestselling author Victoria Schwab delivers a thrillingly spooky and action-packed tale of hauntings, history, mystery, and the bond between friends (even if that friend is a ghost . . .).
A new, stand-alone installment in the exciting Shadow House series that invites you to step inside the ghost story!
Shadow House never sleeps . . .
Five children have been lured into Shadow House, all for different reasons. None of them knows the others. And none of them knows what to do when they can't find a way back out.
But something is different inside the house. Someone -- or something -- is there with them, and seems to know more than they do. Only how are the kids supposed to decide if that someone is trying to help them . . . or trap them there forever?
Step into Shadow House.
Die DREI werden jäh auseinander gerissen, als Maria in ein Internat muss. Dort erwartet sie nichts als strenge Lehrer und schlechte Noten. Da machen ihr die Zwillinge Gregor der Erste und Gregor der Zweite ein unglaubliches Angebot: Die Brüder behaupten, dass sie schlechte Zensuren einfach abschaffen können! Wer kräftig zahlt, braucht nie mehr zu lernen und schreibt immer gute Noten. Entrüstet lehnt Maria ab. Sofort sagen ihr die Gregors den Kampf an. Wie gut, dass Karl und Markus gleich zur Stelle sind.-
Maria und Markus können sich nicht ausstehen. Nur in einem sind sie sich einig: das Beste, was man mit Karl anfangen kann, ist nichts. Doch dann findet Karl einen geheimnisvollen goldenen Schlüssel. Und kurz darauf wird er entführt. Jetzt müssen die DREI zusammenhalten. Also machen sich Maria und Markus auf die Suche nach den Entführern. Dabei gibt es eine Menge offener Fragen: Wer hält Karl gefangen? Wo wird er versteckt? Zu welchem Schloss gehört der goldene Schlüssel? Am Ende sind die DREI durch dick und dünn gegangen. Ob sie dabei auch ihren ersten Fall gelöst haben?-
Für Markus bricht eine Welt zusammen, als er erfährt, dass sein Vater entlassen wurde. Papa wird beschuldigt, seinen Chef bestohlen zu haben. Das kann Markus nicht glauben. Gemeinsam mit Maria und Karl macht er sich auf die Suche nach den wahren Tätern. Nur langsam finden die DREI heraus, wer hinter der Verschwörung steckt: Es handelt sich um eine Bande mit einem sonderbaren Erkennungszeichen: einer schwarzen Hand.-
Kidnapper haben Joes Freundin Kimmy in ihrer Gewalt! Sie verlangen eine geheimnisvolle Datei, die von Joes Bruder Pete stammen soll. Voller Verwunderung muss Joe erfahren, dass Pete für den amerikanischen Geheimdienst CIA arbeitet und ebenfalls entführt wurde. Joe weiß, dass er es mit skrupellosen Gegnern zu tun hat. Er darf keinen Fehler machen, wenn er Pete und Kimmy je wiedersehen will. Ein nervenaufreibendes Abenteuer beginnt ...-
James Patterson's rollicking new middle grade novel is a hilarious adventure into a futuristic world, where different is dangerous, imagination is insanity, and creativity is crazy!Norbert Riddle lives in the United State of Earth, where normal means following the rules, never standing out, and being exactly the same as everyone else, down to the plain gray jumpsuits he wears everyday. He's been normal his whole life--until a moment of temporary hilarity when he does a funny impression of their dictator, Loving Leader...and gets caught!Now, Norbert's been arrested and banished to planet Zorquat 3 in the Orion Nebula, where kids who defy the rules roam free in the Astronuts camp. Norbert has been taught his whole life that different is wrong, but everyone at Astronuts is crazy, creative, and insane! Norbert wants nothing more than to go back to earth where things are awful but at least they're familiar. But he soon realizes that being different could be better--and maybe the crazy farm is exactly where he belongs after all.
Atlantian Chronicles: Final Prophecy is an exciting science fiction story about a great civilization inhabiting Earth 65 million years ago. This spellbinding coming of age tale is about Arius of Atlantius, who chronicles the events of his disastrous last two weeks from the unsettled safety of his wrecked light-ship. Since birth Arius has been confused about his role as the future ruler of Atlantis. He soon discovers that an impossible task bestowed upon him and his friends by his father will test his resolve and trigger his ancestral DNA. Can Arius complete the four truths of knowledge? Can he stop the extinction of his world? Don't miss the answers to this chronicle from master storyteller William P. Messier.Independent Review:Dr. Messier spends a good deal of time drawing connections between Arius, his friends and his natural environment: the whales, flowers, Pterosaurs or flying birds and stars are all his brothers or friends. At the beginning of the story he has the heart of a little boy, eats wafers for strength, longs to be independent, etc. Also, apparently contradictory elements are repeatedly shown as aspects of one unified whole: the jungle is both kind and cruel, feminine and masculine; the sentient guardian is beautiful but deadly; the meat-eating dinosaur is noble but cruel. The novella's premise of unity helps succor Arius in the midst of his great tragedy. For Arius, success and failure are two equal facets of the same existence. They are transitory forms which capriciously arrive and depart without affecting the underlying unity between himself, his friends and nature. At the end of the story Arius has the heart of a man - As long as he focuses on this unity and sees himself as part of his friends and nature rather than as an external antagonist competing with it, he cannot be defeated by whatever misfortunes befall him.
