Download or read book Spelling Bee Specter written by Adrienne Enderle and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dandy is nervous for the fifth grade spelling bee. After all, his dad, grandpa, and great-grandpa all won the contest. Now, it's his turn. But as Dandy competes, strange things start to happen. Malcolm is determined it's a ghost! Can he and Dandy stop the spelling bee specter, so Dandy can carry on his family tradition? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Doggone written by Adrienne Enderle and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm and Dandy are about to hunt down a ghost when they realize they have a bigger problem on their hands. Their beloved ghost dog, Spooky, is missing! The boys set out to find their precious pooch. But things get hairy as they visit a pet cemetery, investigate an animal shelter, and track down Spooky's dognapper. Can Malcolm and Dandy save their furry friend? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book The Ghost in Room 11 written by Betty Ren Wright and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new kid in school accepts a dare—and finds himself facing some spooky and surprising consequences: “[A] page-turner” (Booklist). Matthew Barber thinks that being the new kid in school will be the scariest thing about fourth grade. But is he ever wrong! When the class bully challenges him to spend the night in Healy Elementary, Matthew learns that the rumor of a ghost teacher wandering the halls is more than just a story. And because he has already lost his classmates’ trust by lying about his old school, no one believes the terrifying truth: There is a ghost, and she knows Matthew’s name . . . and she won’t let him rest until she gets what she wants! The Ghost in Room 11 has won the Florida, Iowa, and Oklahoma Children’s Book Awards.
Download or read book Scared in School written by Roberta Simpson Brown and published by august house. This book was released on 2005-12-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of contemporary scary stories set in school, including "Creature Teacher, " "Extinguished Educators, " and "Student Bodies."
Download or read book Spaced Out written by Dotti Enderle and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day has finally arrived! Malcolm and Dandy are going to SciCon--the year's biggest science fiction convention. And the hosts of their favorite show, Ghost Stalkers, will be there. But before long, a nasty ghost interrupts SciCon, leaving the Ghost Stalkers stumped. Can Malcolm and Dandy get rid of the ghost and prove they are the real deal? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Lions Tiger and Bears Oh My written by Jan Fields and published by Calico. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A field trip to the zoo goes bananas when animals break out of their cages and Malcolm is banned from the park. So the boys enlist Mrs. Goolsby's help to zap the ghost setting the animals free.
Download or read book Creepy Cafetorium written by Colleen AF Venable and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Epic Originals comes a collection of illustrated stories serving up spooky thrills and plenty of laughs. When the lunch bell rings at Newville Elementary, you can bet that things are about to get WEIRD! Welcome to the Cafetorium! It's a cafeteria, a gymnasium, and possibly a portal to a world where cube-shaped mashed potatoes are plotting against the almost-definitely-robotic lunch staff. Join Liz Dawson, Declan, Remy, and the rest of Newville Elementary as they learn that when you have plans in the Cafetorium, the Cafetorium has plans for you, too! Each offbeat tale focuses on a different Newville Elementary student, giving readers a chance to walk in another kid's slightly wacky shoes. Funny, unexpected twists in each story provide readers with subtle lessons about honesty, consequences, self-acceptance, and more.
Download or read book Grow a Ghost written by Dotti Enderle and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm has always loved Worlds Beyond magazine. He finds the coolest gadgets for order inside! Now the magazine has an ad for Grow a Ghost--a helper ghost you grow yourself. Malcolm just can't pass that up. But will Malcolm's butler ghost live up to all it is advertised to be? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Ghost Detectors Book 9 Never Never Never written by Dotti Enderle and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's field trip day and Mrs. Goolsby is taking the class to the sugar factory. It seems like a sweet place, until they're all dodging the flying sugar beets! The tortured tour guide finally reveals the factory's secret . . . it's haunted. Can Malcolm and Dandy rid the refinery of the clinging ghost who vows she'll never! never! never! leave?
Download or read book The Luminaries written by Eleanor Catton and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.
Download or read book Ghostly Thief of Time written by Ruben Bolling and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EMU Club is called into action again when they realize that the school janitor is an evil ghost trying to disrupt the flow of time! "There's no mystery--the EMU Club is a hit! This is a fun, funny adventure that kids will love to read." --Lincoln Peirce, author of Big Nate "The EMU Club inhabits exactly the world I always hoped to live in when I was 12, when the answer to questions like 'Where did I put my toy' led to inevitably to alien conspiracies and secret underground tunnels. A book for the curious and the adventurous!" --Cory Doctorow, author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Little Brother. "An adventure so funny you'll think it couldn't be true--but if it isn't true, then where did all those realistic-looking photographs come from? You'd better read this so you'll know what to do when the world ends." --Adam Rex, author of The True Meaning of Smekday My name is Stuart Tennemeier, and I'm the President of the EMU Club (Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club). This is my report of our second mission. Once you've solved one great mystery involving alien cats and a robotic dog, how do you find a second one that is just as awesome to solve? Not huge crimes or weird stuff, but everyday mysteries that happen to everyone, like why does time seem to pass more slowly right before school ends? And at other times, like when you're watching your favorite TV show it seems to pass really quickly? There are tons of little mysteries all around us. Sometimes if you look really, really, closely at them, you find out some amazing, incredible things. And you just might save the world.
Download or read book All for a Game written by Kenny Abdo and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name is Gummyshoes--Jon Gummyshoes. I know what you're thinking: funny name, right? Well that's not what I'm here to talk about. I'm here to tell you the facts--the cold, hard facts about the cases here at Edwin West Elementary School. This investigation began with holes in a soccer field but led to nabbing a blackmailer and a thief. This case was filled with twists, turns, dames, video games, and even a new partner. So prepare yourself. This was one case that got pretty wild. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book School Spirit written by Thomas Kingsley Troupe and published by 12-Story Library. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco Martinez is not looking forward to his school's lock-in event. But when weird noises are heard in the school's media center, he writes up a code to alert him of any ghost-like activity. But does he have more than ghosts to be afraid of?
Download or read book It Can t Happen Here written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news. Includes an Introduction by Michael Meyer and an Afterword by Gary Scharnhorst
Download or read book Devil House written by John Darnielle and published by MCD. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success—and a movie adaptation—to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell––his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected—back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is. Devil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession.
Download or read book Haven t Got a Clue written by and published by Calico Chapter Books. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to solve a mystery. Fourth-grade detective Jon Gummyshoes is on the case! Edwin West Elementary School has a lot of mysteries, and Gummyshoes is the kid to solve them. Follow Gummyshoes as he uncovers cheating, stealing, blackmail, fraud, and plenty more trouble, even when it looks like he hasn't got a clue! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Bland Fanatics written by Pankaj Mishra and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time. In America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have generated a political and intellectual hysteria. It is a derangement manifested in a number of ways: nostalgia for imperialism, xenophobic paranoia, and denunciations of an allegedly intolerant left. These symptoms can be found even among the most informed of Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines the politics and culture of this hysteria, challenging the dominant establishment discourses of our times. In essays that grapple with the meaning and content of Anglo-American liberalism and its relations with colonialism, the global South, Islam, and “humanitarian” war, Mishra confronts writers such as Jordan Peterson, Niall Ferguson, and Salman Rushdie. He describes the doubling down of an intelligentsia against a background of weakening Anglo-American hegemony, and he explores the commitments of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the ideological determinations of The Economist. These essays provide a vantage point from which to understand the current crisis and its deep origins.
