Book Description
A how-to for every budding detective/gourmand/comedian!
Author : Bruce Hale
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152052881
A how-to for every budding detective/gourmand/comedian!
Author : Bruce Hale
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547564147
Chet Gecko loves a good mystery. Almost more than he loves his fee—stinkbug pie. So when fellow fourth grader Shirley Chameleon asks him to find her missing brother, Billy, Chet expects the case to be as easy a pie. But Billy's disappearance is part of a larger plot, one that involves the Rat Sisters, a riddling junkyard dog, and a vicious Gila monster named Herman. If Chet doesn't solve the case fast, the entire school could be humiliated. Worst of all, Chet might not get his fee. And Chet's hungry. . . .
Author : Doreen Cronin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Blind
ISBN : 0062017535
A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.
Author : Bruce Hale
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152054820
Chet Gecko is hired by Principal Zero to investigate the disappearance of valuable items from Emerson Hicky Elementary--including Mama Gecko's pearls.
Author : Bruce Hale
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152025212
Someone is turning the students at Emerson Hickey Elementary into zombies, and it's up to fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko to find out who.
Author : Kathleen A. Baxter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Want to identify fiction books that boys in grades three through nine will find irresistible? This guide reveals dozens of worthwhile recommendations in categories ranging from adventure stories and sports novels to horror, humorous, and science fiction books. In Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love, authors Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia A. Kochel provide compelling and current reading suggestions for younger boys—information that educators, librarians, and parents alike are desperate for. Comprising titles that are almost all well-reviewed in at least one major professional journal, or that are such big hits with kids that they've received the "stamp of approval" from the most important reviewers, this book will be invaluable to anyone whose goal is to help boys develop a healthy enthusiasm for reading. It includes chapters on adventure books; animal stories; graphic novels; historical fiction; humorous books; mystery, horror, and suspense titles; science fiction and fantasy; and sports novels. Within each chapter, the selections are further divided into books for younger readers (grades 3–6) and titles for older boys in grades 5–8. Elementary and middle school librarians and teachers, public librarians, Title One teachers, and parents of boys in grades 3–9 will all benefit greatly from having this book at hand.
Author : Bruce Hale
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 015205488X
Detectives Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie Attired try to solve the mystery of why Emerson Hicky Elementary school students have suddenly started acting strangely.
Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307426025
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space? A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions—to creation and to destruction. In the end, as lives converge with a fearful symmetry, Ghostwritten comes full circle, to a point at which a familiar idea—that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective—strikes home with the force of a new revelation. It marks the debut of a writer of astonishing gifts.
Author : Jeff Mack
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101581352
Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Encyclopedia Brown! Clueless McGee is just your average fifth-grader: snarky, awkward, and a magnet for trouble. The only difference: he's also an amateur detective. Determined to make his absent father proud, he uses the skills he's learned playing video games to solve mysteries. Only he's no Sherlock Holmes. Or Encyclopedia Brown. Or even Scooby-Doo. When the school bully is framed for filling the orchestra teacher's tuba with macaroni and cheese, Clueless is on the case. But can he catch the culprit before he strikes again? His only obstacle, as Jeff Mack shows us in his hilarious new illustrated series, is his own ineptitude . . . questionable talent . . . and limited intelligence. No problem!
Author : Michelle Parker-Rock
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766027589
"Discusses the life of children's author Bruce Hale, including his works of fiction, how he got into writing, and his tips for aspiring young writers"--Provided by publisher.