Goosebumps : How I Learned To Fly

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780439796200

Collation

123p; bw; pbk

Series Title

Goosebumps

Call Number

823 STI g

Alex Van Helsing : Vampire Rising

This doesn’t happen . . . does it? Two vampire attacks in his first three days at boarding school and Alex Van Helsing realizes there’s more to the family name than he thought—and more to this area of Switzerland than meets the eye. Lurking underneath Lake Geneva lies a secret vampire university called the Scholomance. And somehow the vampires know a Van Helsing has arrived. Special…

Bites : Scary Stories To Sink Your Teeth Into

Are you ready for spine-tingling tales by some of today's best writers? Keep in mind a few simple warnings: Some vampires don't want just your blood.. they want something even more valuable. Werewolves, once dead, dont always stay that way. Some dogs and coyotes may look normal - but dont get too close. remember..what you dont know can bite you.

Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter

Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire…

Falling into Place

On the day Liz Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton’s laws of motion in physics class. Then, after school, she put them into practice by running her Mercedes off the road. Why? Why did Liz Emerson decide that the world would be better off without her? Why did she give up? Vividly told by an unexpected and surprising narrator, this heartbreaking and nonlinear novel pieces togethe…

The Vacation

From the author of the Newbery Honor Book Everything on a Waffle When his mother decides on a whim to be a missionary in Africa and drags his unwilling father with her, Henry is left in the care of his Aunts Magnolia and Pigg. Henry's sure they dislike him and he's trying to keep his distance, but that becomes more difficult when Mag decides they should take a destination-less road trip. Mag…

Everything on a Waffle

Primrose Squarp simply knows her parents did not perish at sea during a terrible storm, but try convincing the other residents of Coal Harbour on that score. for all practical purposes, at least for the time being, Primrose is an orphan, and there's no great clamoring of prospective adopters. After realizing the impracticality of continuing to pay Miss Perfidy an hourly wage to babysit her, the…

Flight Behavior

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

9780062124272

Collation

436p; bw; pbk

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 KIN f

Small Wonder

The first essay is "Small Wonder," and Kingsolver tells the (true) story of a toddler that wandered off from his home in a small village in Iran and was found later, safe, in a bear's den, with the bear curled protectively around the child. Apparently, the bear had actually been nursing the baby. She calls it "an impossible act of grace." (5) She writes about hoping/insisting that the world is …

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. WIth the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on…