Jack E. Davis
Author
Language
English
Description
After listening to a brutal murder take place over her phone's voicemail, schoolteacher Samantha Harris sets out to discover who's responsible for the crime. Unfortunately, while trying to solve one murder, she inadvertently uncovers another. Now, pulled into the center of her normally quiet town's latest murder, Samantha begins to see her enigmatic friends as cold-blooded murderers. Armed with only a 15lbs dachshund by her side, Samantha is determined...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Rich in vivid, previously untold stories, The Gulf tells the larger narrative of the American Sea?from the sportfish that brought the earliest tourists to Gulf shores to Hollywood?s engagement with the first offshore oil wells?as it inspired and empowered, sometimes to its own detriment, the ethnically diverse groups of a growing nation. Davis' pageant of historical characters is vast, including: the presidents who directed western expansion toward...
3) Stanza
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Stanza the dog and his two rotten brothers terrorize the streets by day, but at night Stanza secretly writes poetry.
Author
Series
The Zack files volume 27
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
After she eats his homework, ten-year-old Zack suspects that his substitute teacher Mrs. Wolfowitz is a werewolf and uncovers her bizarre secret.
8) Yo-yo man
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Third grade improves dramatically for a boy after he makes up his mind to win the upcoming yo-yo tournament.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation's founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples...
12) The sweet tooth
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Stewart's loud, obnoxious sweet tooth constantly gets him into trouble, until Stewart uses a healthy diet to take control of the situation.
14) Bedhead
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
After many unsuccessful attempts to control his unruly hair one morning, Oliver and his family think that they have solved the problem--until he gets to school and finds that it is school picture day.
15) Marsupial Sue
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Marsupial Sue, a young kangaroo, finds happiness in doing what kangaroos do.
Author
Series
The Zack files volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
After Zack opens his medicine cabinet one morning and sees a boy who could be his double staring back at him, he enters a parallel universe.
Author
Series
The Zack files volume 13
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Zack visits a very strange Chinese restaurant called Wun Dum Guy and finds that the fortunes in his fortune cookies start coming true.
Author
Series
The Zack files volume 18
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After falling through his computer screen, Zack travels back in time to a school in 999 A.D. where the students believe the world will end in the new millennium.