Chick-napped!


Book Description

When the newly hatched chicks disappear from the classroom, Nancy and her friends have a job on their hands to find out who stole the baby chicks.




Chick-napped!


Book Description

Chick-napped: When the newly hatched chicks disappear from the classroom, Nancy and her friends have a job on their hands to find out who stole the baby chicks.




Ballerina Weather Girl


Book Description

Nine-year-old Marylander Fiona Finkelstein tries to deal with stage-fright, missing her mother who is an actress in California, and hoping that her father, a television meteorologist, does not get in trouble when she antagonizes the anchorman.




Geek Love


Book Description

National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.




What a Life! a Different Kind of Biography


Book Description

Herein are printed stories and poems I have written over the years in my own way of telling my story. Rather than an autobiography I thought this may be a better way of presenting one’s life rather than in one mundane book. I began with a book and then I found I like to present my life this way. These are truthful works and not fiction. Some had memory “holes” that needed filling, who said what, or who I gave credit to but nothing that would take away from the story. It’s just the way I tell my life. After all, my life has been a series of short stories and poems not one continuous biography or even one long story. I tried to keep them truthful at all times. My poetry is not the deep thinking style but happenings in poetry form. I hope you enjoy it. The Chapter numbers are assigned to the places I lived when the stories happened, not necessarily in the order that they happened. You will find the stories and poems are not numbered. I began writing short stories and poems before I started my book. Then after a few stories, I figured it would be a good way to write a book. So this is it, for good or ill and I am not an author with an extensive vocabulary by any stretch of the imagination, I hope you’ll forgive that. They, so I’m told, are quite interesting and easy reading. Take them like vitamins, one or two a day. I hope you will laugh and cry and enjoy! The stories, poems, musings and thoughts in this book, are the product of but not limited to, a lifetime of memories, love, life, pain and laughter. It is a labor of love in an effort to sing the praises of those that deserve it the most, and not for the writer. For it was the people that this work was dedicated to that I have to thank for almost all the memories. If it weren’t for the people, there would be absolutely no need for writing this book.




Cooking Camp Disaster


Book Description

Nancy, George, and Bess are spending the first part of their summer at a cooking camp called Kid Kuisine, where their excitement turns to bafflement when their test recipes turn out to be disasters.




The Great Coaster Caper


Book Description

Frank and Joe are excited to learn that Thrill Kingdom, their local amusement park, is having a contest for kids to design a brand-new ride. And they're even more excited that their friend Phil is entering! But on the day of the contest, someone ruins Phil's roller coaster contest entry. Illustrations.




Robot Rumble


Book Description

A robot robbery suggests science fair foul play in this Hardy Boys Secret Files mystery. It’s time for the annual Bayport Science Fair, and Frank, Joe, and their friend Phil are determined to have the winning entry. With their spiffy homemade robot, they are convinced they can finally top their classmate, Cissy Zermeno, who has won the past two years. But right before the boys are about to bring Mr. Roboto to the fair, Phil discovers that their prized creation has gone missing! Did town bully (and usual suspect) Adam Ackerman steal him out of jealousy? Or was Cissy worried she would have to settle for second place this year? It’s up to the boys to figure out how Mr. Roboto found his way out of Phil’s garage. Will they get him back in time to compete?




The Pumpkin Patch Puzzle


Book Description

Nancy and friends must find out who stole the designs and destroyed the decorating supplies for the annual pumpkin-decorating contest.




The Black Wolf Reign


Book Description

Kyleigh Schmitt is about to celebrate her birthday. However, Kyleigh isn't just your normal seventeen-year-old. She is about to go through her transformation (Woge, in the world of Wesen) She also has mystical powers. Kyleigh will soon be plunged into a world that is completely alien to her. Guided by her powerful pack-leader, her transition into the supernatural world is going to a rollercoaster ride of unimaginable proportions!