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Walter Wants To Be A Werewolf
by Richard HarlandThe full moon is out! FOR the Grimms, the most distinguished family of werewolves, its time to transform under the moonlit night again. It's thirteen-year-old Walter Grimm's first time, but why doesn't he change like the rest of the family? Clumsy Walter's never been like his award-winning athletic sister and brother who changed when they were only eleven and twelve. He feels even more left out when the whole family attends the Werewolf Carnival without him. When will Walter Grimm finally make his triumphant transformation? This is a CHOMP book, a satisfying adventure for independent readers grades 3-6, ages 8-12
Out Of My Mind: The Discovery of Saunders-Vixen
by Richard BachIn his new novel, Out of My Mind, Bach takes off on an adventure across the boundaries of ordinary time and into the vast realm of creativity and imagination. The journey begins as Bach puzzles over design modifications for his airplane, a Piper Cub. Perfect designs-simple and practical-seem to come to him from nowhere. But when a design appears one day, along with a fleeting glimpse of an intriguing woman, he sets out to discover the source of his visions. The search leads to a startling destination: a parallel universe, where a British airplane manufacturer, Saunders- Vixen Aircraft Company Ltd., solves problems. for perplexed aviators. There Bach meets Derek Hawthorne, his guide through. Saunders-Vixen and the new world just unfolding. And there he meets a young aircraft designer named Laura Bristol. Out of My Mind is an invitation to discover for ourselves a universe of astonishing possibilities.
All That Glitters (Sabrina the Teenage Witch #12)
by Ray GartonWhen Sabrina and her aunts visit the Rummage Realm, a giant flea market for witches, Sabrina comes home with a special purchase: wishdust. It's a glittery powder that sparkles with all the colors of the rainbow and will grant any wish to the person who sprinkles it into the air. Now Sabrina won't have to waste her energy performing spells, since the powder will do the work for her. But the wishdust isn't easy to contain-and it can be used by anyone, even a mortal. Before Sabrina realizes it, the shimmering powder has spread all over school and every student's wish list is coming true. As bizarre things spiral out of control, Mr. Kraft suspects that Sabrina is behind the mayhem. Can Sabrina dust off her magic skills and put an end to everyone's wishful thinking--before Mr. Kraft figures out what's really going on?
Eight Spells A Week (Sabrina The Teenage Witch # #17)
by Diana G. Gallagher Nancy Holder Bobbi Weiss David Weiss Cathy East Dubowski Ray Garton Mel Odom Mark DubowskiPoor Sabrina! She breaks a mirror and prepares herself for seven years of bad luck...until the Quizmaster tells her otherwise. Witches get seven days of bad luck-right now! "Well, how bad could that be?" Sabrina wonders. But soon Sabrina realizes this week, of all weeks, is not going to be what she expected. Something else is at work here...something bigger than herself, her family...and her magic! Eight short stories-a different disaster each day! -by bestselling Sabrina, the Teenage Witch authors.
Chasing Midnight (Doc Ford #19)
by Randy Wayne WhiteIt began peacefully enough, on one of Florida's private islands. At a reception hosted by a notorious Russian black marketeer, Doc Ford uses darkness, and his friend Tomlinson, as cover to get an underwater look at the billionaire's yacht. By the time Ford surfaces, everything has changed. Environmental extremists have taken control of the island. Or are they thugs hired by the Russian's competitors? Whatever the motive, they have herded everyone together and threatened to kill one hostage every hour until midnight unless their demands are met--at which point they will just blow everybody up. Electronic jammers make communications with the outside world impossible. The only hope of avoiding terrible consequences: The militants do not know Ford's capabilities, or that he is still on the loose. But that situation won't last for long . . . and the clock is ticking.
Deep Shadow (Doc Ford #17)
by Randy Wayne WhiteDoc Ford wrestles more than one kind of demon, in the stunning novel from the New York Times-bestselling author. Many dangers lurk in the deep--the worst of them are human. Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends. Ford himself manages to escape and quickly surfaces to find help--but that's when his troubles only begin. Two men are waiting for him on the shore, and they are not the kind of men you want to meet at any time. Murderers and ex-cons, they're intent on diving to the bottom of the very deep lake and uncovering the remains of a legendary plane wreck there, supposedly loaded with Cuban treasury gold. Ford's expertise is just what they need. And if he doesn't want to help? He can die. His friends? They can die, too. In fact, they can die right now. As the hours tick away, two mortal struggles unfold simultaneously, one above and one below. Neither outcome is certain, no man is safe ... and in the deep shadow, only death awaits.
All You Need Is a Love Spell (Sabrina the Teenage Witch #7)
by Randi ReisfeldIt's almost Valentine's Day, and everyone seems to be in love. Even Harvey's caught up in the season--but he's crazy for another girl! Now Quentin, the new student from Greece, seems to think I belong with him, but he can't put a love spell on me. I'm too busy trying to figure out how to get things back to normal before I lose Harvey forever!
Cher's Furiously Fit Workout (Clueless Series)
by Randi Reisfeld Amy HeckerlingHere's an all-new novel based on the new ABC-TV prime-time series, and written by Randi Reisfeld, creator of the hit movie Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone.
A Hundred Days from Home
by Randall WrightElam loves the wilderness of the mountains where he lives. The cool air, the spicy-smelling pine trees, the fishing--this place is home. He doesn't want to move to the Arizona desert, but his father thinks Elam needs a change. Since his best friend, Brett, drowned in a river accident last year, Elam has been a loner. After the move, Elam explores the desert alone, unwilling to befriend the neighboring kids. The dry brown earth makes him long for the lush green of home. But in the parched landscape he discovers something unexpected: a river where no water should be. There he meets Refúgio, who also seems to be a loner. Drawn together by a shared love of wildlife, the two forge a tentative friendship made difficult by EElam's Father's warning that his son isn't making the right kind of friend. As Elam's longing for the mountains lessens, he slowly begins to let go of the guilt and pain from Brett's death and take pride in his Mexican friend as he would take pride in any very good friend. Randall Wright's stunning first novel is a beautiful and deeply moving exploration of the aftermath of loss and the healing power of nature. Randall Wright spent the first fourteen years of his life in the desert of southern Arizona. He grew up with a childlike immunity to the heat and a love for the rugged hills and saguaro-haunted canyons. This novel draws from his memories of that time, when the desert was alive and being alone was impossible. Randall now lives in Utah with his wife and children.
Blood Runs Deep
by R. Scott Mackey17-year-old African American track star, Cal Smith, wants to get out of Thunderbrook and go to college to become a doctor. Winning the state high school track meet might be his ticket to a college scholarship, but first he must beat his archrival, Drew McKinney. Cal's mother, Teresa, has also set aside money for his college education, but after she is killed in a freak accident at work, Cal doubts the existence of her secret nest egg. As he begins searching for clues about his mother's past and a father he's never met, a previously unknown uncle enters his life. After a rocky introduction, Cal and his ex-con uncle, Travis, gradually begin to forge a bond of faith and trust. Along the way, they face a series of grim discoveries and deadly encounters, and ultimately uncover a plot that ended with Teresa's murder. Now someone wants Cal and Travis to leave town, too--feet first.
Chicago Red
by R. M. MeluchFrom the book jacket: America had been free, a democracy. But now Edward III was king, and America was a land with a small, wealthy elite and a vast body of peasants eking out their meager living in the countryside or preying upon one another in dangerous city slums. Edward's soldiers and especially his executioner. Brigadier General Tow, would see that this was exactly how life in America remained. Only one man ever had the courage to speak out against the tyrant's rule--a man driven by the dream of restoring democracy to the land, only to become the martyr ignominiously hanged on Boot Hill. But from this death a new leader was born, a visionary young man not quite of this world, Chicago Red. His words would take action and be the spark to set the land ablaze with a new kind of revolution....
Jerusalem Fire
by R. M. MeluchTHE ITIRI: BEINGS MORE ANCIENT AND MORE POWERFUL THAN ANYTHING IN THE GALAXY... "Alihahd": the name meant simply "He left."- No one, not even his most trusted crewmen, knew what his real name was. He had foiled the evil Na'id Empire countless times, striking blow after unexpected blow for freedom throughout the galaxy, always vanishing into hyper-space moments before the Na'ids could lay their hands on him. But now Alihahd knew that his time had come. An entire Na'id squadron was closing in on his single, defenseless ship. The rebel cause was doomed. Yet Alihahd could never have foreseen that the real battle was not over but just beginning, a battle to be fought not in the depths of space but in a world out of time; with a race which even the combined might of the Na'id empire was unable to stop....
Sovereign
by R. M. MeluchWAR BETWEEN THE WORLDS. In a universe where Earthmen and Uelsons battle over the domination of galaxies, what chance does one small, seemingly backward planet have for survival? But Arana is much more than just a desirable refueling point midway between Earth and the Uelsons. Arana is the homeworld of a new race in the family of man--the Royalists. It is also the home of one very special Bay Royalist--Teal Ray Stewert, a key figure to the future of his entire planet. And what neither Earthmen nor Uelsons know is that Teal and his planet may be the catalyst for the ultimate struggle between mankind and its most hated enemy!
The Queen's Squadron
by R. M. MeluchFROM THE BEGINNING, WAR WAS INEVITABLE The immortals had ruled for far too long. Those who had served them and lived on other worlds were not complaining, but the free mortals claimed they had a star empire of their own, and no desire to become someone else's pets or servants. Despite all this, only minor skirmishes had occurred, quickly ended by the Queen's Squadron, pilots of the only faster-than-light ships in existence, and guardians of all the worlds that belonged to the immortals. But now the free mortals had come up with their perfect strategy for destroying the "gods." And all that stood between the immortals and doom was one of their own-the last surviving truthspeaker-ready to throw away her immortality, and the men and women of the Queen's Squadron, ready to challenge the very heart of a sun in the defense of their people....
War Birds
by R. M. MeluchWORLDS AT WAR Tannia, Erde, and Occo-Earth's farthest- flung colony worlds. Long forgotten by the mother planet, each had found its own path to survival. Occo, an isolated planet of mystery ... Tannia and Erde, twin colonies that had coexisted for 192 Earth years-but far from peacefully. Twenty years earlier, the world had come under Tannia's sway, and Anton Nordveldt, shot down on Tannia, became first a prisoner of war, then a professor of the classics, attempting to civilize his former enemies. Then he met the beautiful Maggie, a fighter pilot. Drawn together by love, they were eventually driven apart by Nordveldt's past loyalties-until Tannia and Erde were attacked by a new deadly foe, Occo! And suddenly old enemies became uneasy allies, and Anton and Maggie flew the skies together in a desperate struggle to save both their worlds. . . .
Wind Child (Aeolis #2)
by R. M. MeluchFrom the book jacket: BORN OF WIND AND WOMAN Daniel East's mother was dead. Laure Lafayette-Remington East, the only person who had ever been able to speak with the Kistraalians, the wind beings who'd called Aeolis their home long before humans transformed it into a paradise planet for the very wealthy. Alive, Laure could have warned the winds about the human weapon that could threaten their very existence. Now Daniel alone remained to carry his mother's message of survival But to accomplish his mission Daniel had to learn how to communicate with the winds. And in the learning, he discovered a ten-thousand-year-old secret that sent him rocketing across the galaxy in search of a living legend which could herald the beginning of a new age or the final extinction of an entire race.... WIND CHILD
Wind Dancers (Aeolis #1)
by R. M. MeluchTHE MORTS were turning up all over Aeolis, the Eden-like planet named for the unexpected winds which sprang from nowhere and swiftly faded again. But unlike the winds, the Morts didn't just fade away. These unidentifiable corpses--which on closer examination proved far from human--posed a bizarre threat to human control of Aeolis. So the Serviceship Halcyon XLV was dispatched to the planet to solve the secret of the Morts, a secret whispered by winds every day--a secret older than mankind, which could spell the end of human life on the planet...
Dance of Death (Fear Street Sagas #6)
by R. L. StineAfter falling in love with Justin Fier, Madeline is warned away from him by a young man no one else sees and an old woman everyone thinks is crazy. They tell her Justin is a man driven by an evil quest that destroys any woman who dares to love him. Is it too late? Can Madeline escape the curse of the Fears?
Fear Hall: The Conclusion
by R. L. StineSomeone is killing and threatening students. Witnesses swear it's Hope, but she swears she's innocent.
The Betrayal (Fear Street Saga #1)
by R. L. StineThrough 20 books, R. L. Stine has alluded to the cursed Fear family, whose mansion burned down in a terrible fire. All that remains of the Fears is a legacy of evil. Now Stine takes readers back in time, telling them finally the awful truth of what happened to the Fears . . . and why their evil lives on after 300 years.
The Burning (Fear Street Saga #3)
by R. L. StineHow did Fear Street gain its chilling reputation? Find out in the blood-chilling conclusion to R. L. Stine's terrifying trilogy. Journey back in time to when the Fear family first became evil, and Fear Street became a place of unspeakable terror.
The Hidden Evil (Fear Street Sagas #5)
by R. L. StineTimothy has a dangerous story to tell. A story with powers to awaken the worst evil imaginable--the evil in the heart of a child. Come and listen to Timothy's story--if you dare.
The Nightmare Room: Books 1-2-3
by R. L. StineIn "Don't Forget Me!" A sister wishes her brother ill and lives to regret her impulsive words. In "Locker 13" A boy who has always been very average suddenly becomes VERY lucky. Too lucky? And what will be the price that he is required to pay for his good fortune? In "My Name Is Evil" a girl is thought to have become an evil witch on her thirteenth birthday. But is she really the source of the accidents happening to, and harming her best friends?
The Sign of Fear (Fear Street Sagas #4)
by R. L. StineFieran had been a young warrior driven by revenge. He created the Fear amulet and cursed the Fear family for all eternity. Christina is a young servant girl struggling for survival. She finds the Fear amulet centuries later. Now, she may be destroyed by its evil.
Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel
by Phyllis Reynolds NaylorLiving at the Bessledorf Hotel, where his father works as the manager, Bernie tries to solve the mystery of a troubled, young ghost who wanders the halls of the hotel at night.