Download or read book Midnight Reynolds and the Agency of Spectral Protection written by Catherine Holt and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Midnight Reynolds has a huge secret—she's a spectral protector, someone who helps ghosts cross over into the afterlife. Alongside her best friend Tabitha, Midnight is busy juggling the wilds of middle school with her undercover ghost-hunting job. When mysterious and dangerous robberies start happening in their small town, all signs point to some sort of spectral manipulation, and Midnight’s boss asks her to take over the investigation. Can Midnight find the culprit and stop them before the spectral energy endangers their town? This series has twists and turns galore for budding mystery lovers, all seen through the lens of a lovable and smart heroine. And the positive female friendships and hysterical writing will keep series fans coming back for more.
Download or read book Midnight Reynolds and the Spectral Transformer written by Catherine Holt and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twelve year-old misfit Midnight Reynolds takes a job helping out eccentric Miss Appleby in the mansion down the street, she never imagined her work would involve battling ghosts. But as it turns out, Midnight and her new employer have quite a bit in common—they were both born on Halloween and have the power to see spirits of the dead. But when Midnight learns more about the history of her town, she starts to wonder if she's fighting on the right side.
Download or read book Midnight Reynolds and the Phantom Circus written by Catherine Holt and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Midnight Reynolds is a middle-school student who works undercover for the Agency of Spectral Protection, helping ghosts cross over into the afterlife and saving her town from mishaps involving spectral energy. Now school's out for the summer, and Midnight and her best friend Tabitha just want to have fun. But their plans are interrupted when a mysterious traveling circus and a ghostly ringmaster come to town. As people start getting hurt, Midnight finds herself in the middle of her most deadly mission yet. Someone’s stealing spectral energy from the living! Can they be stopped before it’s too late?
Download or read book Midnight Reynolds and the Phantom Circus written by Catherine Holt and published by Midnight Reynolds. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight must save her town from the deadly forces of a haunted circus!
Download or read book Pecos Bill written by James Cloyd Bowman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates some of the legends of Pecos Bill, from the moment he bounced out of his family's covered wagon to the day his long-lost brother appears and explains that Bill is not like the coyotes that have raised him.
Download or read book Someone Was Watching written by David Patneaude and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1995-1996 South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award 1997-1998 Utah Children's Book Award 1995-1996 Texas Lone Star Reading List 1997-1998 Young Hoosier Book Award Master List (Indiana) 1995-1996 Nebraska Golden Sower Young Adult Award Runner-Up 1996 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List (Florida) Runner-up for Rebecca Caudill Award (Illinois) Best of the Texas Lone Star Reading Lists When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned and sets off on a journey to discover the truth. It's been three miserable months since 13-year-old Chris Barton lost his little sister, Molly. "Missing, presumed drowned" was what the paper said, and surely that is what everyone believes. After all, the Bartons had been picnicking by the river when Molly disappeared. One night, Chris views a video he made the day Molly was lost. There doesn't seem to be anything unusual here: a rest stop, lunch by the river, a hungry squirrel, a familiar ice cream van. But the video harbors an awful secret. In the middle of the night, Christ Barton wakes from fitful sleep—and begins a journey filled with fear, doubt, and impossible hopes.
Download or read book The Black Crow Conspiracy written by Christopher Edge and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penelope Tredwell, the pen behind bestselling author, Montgomery Flinch, is cursed with writer's block. She needs a sensational new story or her magazine, the Penny Dreadful, will go under. So when a mysterious letter arrives, confessing to the impossible crime of stealing the Crown Jewels just days before the King's coronation, Penelope thinks she has found a plot to enthrall her readers, until the police charge Montgomery Flinch with the theft of the jewels. Can Penelope solve the mystery, restore the jewels, rescue Monty, save the magazine, and keep the true identity of Montgomery Flinch a secret?
Download or read book Twelve Minutes to Midnight written by Christopher Edge and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Victorian Britain's bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her spine-chilling tales—concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch—are gripping the public. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam madhouse requesting Finch's help to investigate the asylum's strange goings-on. Every night at precisely twelve minutes to midnight, the inmates all begin feverishly writing-incoherent ramblings that Penelope quickly realizes are frightening visions of the century to come. But what is causing this phenomenon? In the first book of this smart new series, Penelope is drawn into a thrilling mystery more terrifying than anything she could ever imagine!
Download or read book Super Schnoz and the Gates of Smell written by Gary Urey and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Whiffler is your average eleven-year-old boy...except that his nose is so big he can use it to fly and his sense of smell is a hundred thousand times stronger than any human. In the first book of this hilarious series, Andy moves to a new school and is instantly picked on because of the size of his nose. But when his classmates discover how powerful his nose is, they decide he is more of a comic book hero than a nerd, and dub him Super Schnoz. One day an evil corporation called ECU shuts down Andy's school in an evil plot to take over the world. Can Super Schnoz and his friends save the school?
Download or read book Of Better Blood written by Susan Moger and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a secret war against "the unfit." It's 1922, and eugenics—the movement dedicated to racial purity and good breeding—has taken hold in America. State laws allow institutions to sterilize minorities, the "feeble-minded," and the poor, while local eugenics councils set up exhibits at county fairs with "fitter family" contests and propaganda. After years of being confined to hospitals, Rowan is recruited at sixteen to play a born cripple in a county fair eugenics exhibit. But gutsy, outspoken Dorchy befriends Rowan and helps her realize her own inner strength and bravery. The two escape the fair and end up at a summer camp on a desolate island run by the New England Eugenics Council. There they discover something is happening to the children. Rowan must find a way to stop the horrors on the island...if she can escape them herself.
Download or read book Pip and the Wood Witch Curse written by Chris Mould and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, scary, and magnificently illustrated, this is a new series not to be missed! The great walled city of Hangman's Hollow is at war with the forest outside. Into this war, one dreadful night, fate delivers a skinny, helpless boy. But maybe Pip isn't as helpless as he seems. Maybe he is the one who will defeat the wood witches and rescue the children of Hangman's Hollow.
Download or read book Dreambender written by Ronald Kidd and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy controls the dreams of City dwellers to keep the earth safe. But then he sees Callie dreaming of singing and begins to wonder if there is more to life than being safe. Everyone in the City is assigned a job by the choosers—keeper, catcher, computer. Callie Crawford is a computer. She works with numbers: putting them together, taking them apart. Her work is important, but sometimes she wants more. Jeremy Finn is a dreambender. His job is to adjust people's dreams. He and others like him quietly remove thoughts of music and art to keep the people in the City from becoming too focused on themselves and their own feelings rather than on the world. They need to keep the world safe from another Warming. But Jeremy thinks music is beautiful, and when he pops into a dream of Callie singing, he becomes fascinated with her. He begins to wonder if there is more to life than being safe. Defying his community and the role they have established for him, he sets off to find her in the real world. Together, they will challenge their world's expectations. But how far will they go to achieve their own dreams?
Download or read book Creature Files Dragons written by L.J. Tracosas and published by becker&mayer! kids. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether they were real or myth, Creature Files: Dragons shows you the folklore of twenty dragons from around the world and what the people believed about them. Do you believe dragons are nothing more than the scaly stuff of myths? Or do you think they really existed? Whatever side you're on, this collection of twenty fascinating creatures is sure to spark your imagination. In Creature Files: Dragons, you’ll take a tour through the world of fire-breathing, gold-hoarding, three-headed monsters and discover where and how these magical creatures came to be. Learn the unique folklore of cultures around the globe, from China to Russia to Eastern Africa, and see how people envisioned these otherworldly beasts through lush and evocative illustrations. Included are many meaty facts to gnaw on—like which dragon had too many teeth to count, and which dragon had teeth as big as an adult’s arm—along with a realistic dragon-tooth necklace! And science lovers will also find something to sink their teeth into: facts about real-life dragons that exist today. These dragons may not breathe fire, but they share some of the same traits as their mythical brethren.
Download or read book Chebyshev and Fourier Spectral Methods written by John P. Boyd and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-12-03 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised text focuses on use of spectral methods to solve boundary value, eigenvalue, and time-dependent problems, but also covers Hermite, Laguerre, rational Chebyshev, sinc, and spherical harmonic functions, as well as cardinal functions, linear eigenvalue problems, matrix-solving methods, coordinate transformations, methods for unbounded intervals, spherical and cylindrical geometry, and much more. 7 Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Over 160 text figures.
Download or read book It s Complicated written by Danah Boyd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.
Download or read book Super Schnoz and the Booger Blaster Breakdown written by Gary Urey and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Whiffler—aka Super Schnoz—has a scent bank of more than 3,000 different smells. He adds to it every day as he sniffs out things like rotting road kill and earwax. He's never met a smell he can't identify...until now. Schnoz can pick out every ingredient in Strange, the most popular fragrance of all time—every ingredient except one. Is Super Schnoz's booger blaster broken?
Download or read book The Curious Cat Spy Club written by Linda Joy Singleton and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOYA Perfect Tens 2015 No one at school knows that Kelsy, Becca, and Leo are secretly friends. They have nothing in common—until they rescue three kittens and form a club to help animals through volunteering, spying, and solving mysteries. Kelsey helps catch a runaway zorse (horse + zebra) with the help of the nicest and most popular girl in school, Becca. The two are walking home when they happen upon a litter of kittens trapped in a dumpster and Leo is the only person around who can help get them out. The three unlikely friends decide to work together to help solve animal crimes with their secret club.
