Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to save the planet before 10 pm (9:30 on school nights)... It's Maximum Boy! It's April Fools! Over and over and over again... That's right, some evildoer is playing pranks across the entire country! There are whoopee cushions on school buses. Silly glasses on the faces of Mount Rushmore. This prankster is pulling off some pretty peculiar plots! But who better to put a stop to these childish stunts than our eleven-year old superhero? In fact, he's already got some suspects. Like Super Sid -- the all-too-perfect superhero that everyone loves to hate. Or could there be a new bully at the heart of all this mischief and mayhem? Maximum Boy is on the case!

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After crashing their spaceship in the Nevada desert, Klatu, Lek, and their sister Ploo go to Las Vegas in search of the one mechanic who can fix it.

From the author of the bestselling Sunset Island series, a sensational new teen mini-series that combines romantic drama with the excitement of the country music explosion. Jane is devastated when her family moves to New York City to Nashville, Tennessee. But soon she makes friends and even starts a country-rock band.

Survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima are pictured and interviewed in this dramatic and compelling account of the holocaust which killed almost two hundred thousand people

Adam, who is dyslexic and has great difficulty with his homework, struggles to find the right school, resist the lure of drugs, and endure the jealousy of his older sister Caroline.

Arlene Alda has created several photo essays for very young readers, and this one, with its simple concept and clever presentation should sell as well as her very popular Did You Say Pears? A clever look at colors for the very young...

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In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Pets , Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining and smelly bits about pets. It's history, but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know about pets through time in this brilliant illustrated, action-packed, fact-filled book, including: - The fact that Egyptians worshipped cats and shaved off their eyebrows to mourn them when they died - The brilliant and extremely useful jobs that animals did and still do for us in times of war - A whole array of bizarre animals through time, including medieval squirrels! - Pet fashions and fashionable pets And lots of other facts about the amazing pets that we spend our lives with. What are you waiting for? Let's get going . . . For more funny history facts discover the whole series!

Bosanka, an alien witch from another world, wants Valentine, a New York City teenager, to use her magical powers to help Bosanka return home.

A colorful cast of creatures and ghouls take to the streets Halloween night. But there's only one way to find out exactly who they are because we're not telling here! Sneak a peek... From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Bloodhound Gang is called in to find out who stole Mrs. Tolliver's life savings.

Princess Tomorrow tries to predict the winner of tomorrow's horse race and the Bloodhound Gang sniffs out the plot of the fortune-telling swindlers

Fred Turtle's family must decide whether they want to live like the ritzy new family in the pond, or stick to the simpler things in life.