<div>Crazy toymakers, disappearing houses, and shrinking boys: Just another day in the Weird Zone! A blast of strange purple light zaps Sean Vickers while he is riding his bike in Grover&rsquo;s Mill. His sister Holly assures him that nothing is wrong, but Sean is not so certain&mdash;and the creepy new toy-store owner in town is not making him feel any better. When Sean rapidly starts shrinking, he knows the purple light is to blame, But how can he save himself when he is only four inches tall? Holly and her friend Jeff must snap into action and figure out how to reverse the process before Sean disappears forever and becomes part of the evil toymaker&rsquo;s permanent collection! </div>

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The Incredible Shrinking Kid!

<div>&ldquo;This affectionate if somewhat irreverent homage would probably win a chuckle from Twain himself&rdquo; as pals tumble into Tom Sawyer (School Library Journal). Sixth graders Devin and Frankie&mdash;short for Francine&mdash;are the greatest goof-offs in the history of their school. When their teacher tells them to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, they skip it. When there&rsquo;s a surprise test on the novel, they hide. But when they accidentally drop the school&rsquo;s prized Mark Twain autograph through the library&rsquo;s magic metal detector, they find themselves transported to the world of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Soon these modern middle schoolers learn that being a troublemaker is timeless, as they whitewash a fence, run away from home, solve a murder mystery, become pirates, and search for hidden treasure along with Tom and Huck, the original slackers. &ldquo;Reminiscent of Mary Pope Osborne&rsquo;s &lsquo;Magic Tree House&rsquo; series, but for an older audience,&rdquo; the second book in Tony Abbott&rsquo;s Cracked Classics series is a perfect introduction to Mark Twain for reluctant readers (School Library Journal). </div>

Mississippi River Blues

<div>Sixth graders Devin and Frankie try to save star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet when they&rsquo;re magically transported into Shakespeare&rsquo;s classic play. When their teacher assigns Devin and Frankie&mdash;short for Francine&mdash;the lead roles in their class production of Romeo and Juliet, the two best friends aren&rsquo;t thrilled. How are they supposed to say their lines when they don&rsquo;t even sound like they were written in English? Luckily, the library&rsquo;s magic security gates come to their rescue again, and they leap into Shakespeare&rsquo;s famous tragedy. Unfortunately, they land right in the middle of a sword fight between two warring families, the Montagues and the Capulets. When they find out that Romeo Montague has fallen in love with Juliet Capulet, Devin and Frankie decide it&rsquo;s up to them to make sure this unlikely couple lives happily ever after. But can they change the book&rsquo;s tragic end and save the young lovers from their fate? &ldquo;The message that reading is important and can be fun comes through loud and clear,&rdquo; writes School Library Journal about the Cracked Classics series. &ldquo;The short chapters make this an ideal read-aloud and a treat for reluctant readers.&rdquo; </div>

Crushing on a Capulet

<div>Welcome to the Weird Zone, the UFO capital of the world, where crazy is ordinary and Martians will eat your brain! Life in Grover&rsquo;s Mill is never boring. When best friends Liz, Holly, and Jeff arrive at the local lake one morning, they know it is only a matter of time before something weird happens. And unfortunately, they&rsquo;re right. When disgusting alien zombies start rising from the center of the lake, the trio must escape&mdash;or their brains will become an afternoon snack! Now the three kids must put their heads together to stop the hungry monsters and save their town from destruction. But when Holly is marked as the next victim, can Liz and Jeff save her from a grisly fate? </div>

Zombie Surf Commandos from Mars!

<div>Aliens are literally popping out of the ground, but luckily, Jeff and Holly have a few tricks up their sleeves Jeff Ryan and his friends want to play street hockey, but someone has stolen their puck. When the kids try to get it back, they discover the culprit is a giant mole from space. A colony of aliens has tunneled under Grover&rsquo;s Mill, and they want to take over the town by killing the humans&mdash;starting with Jeff&rsquo;s friends! With the help of a secret government invention, Jeff and Holly race to rescue the captives and defend their turf before the moles attack. But will they be too late to save the day?</div>

Attack of the Alien Mole Invaders!

<div>Two reluctant readers and mischievous middle schoolers get transported into Bram Stoker&rsquo;s vampire classic in this &ldquo;lighthearted spoof&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Devin and Frankie&mdash;short for Francine&mdash;may be the best of friends, but they aren&rsquo;t the best of students. After they&rsquo;re busted for not reading Bram Stoker&rsquo;s Dracula, their teacher sends them to the library to make amends by mending books. When they accidentally toss an ancient copy of the horror classic through the library&rsquo;s broken metal detector, a huge crack opens in the wall&mdash;and sucks Devin and Frankie right into the novel itself. Now these sarcastic sixth graders will need a few stakes, a lot of garlic, and a sharp sense of humor to defeat the bloodthirsty count. In this first book in Tony Abbott&rsquo;s Cracked Classics series, &ldquo;Devin and Frankie are wisecracking underachievers and their characterizations and dialogue ring true. Abbott adroitly blends the language in Stoker&rsquo;s tale with their conversations, resulting in laugh-out-loud scenes&rdquo; (School Library Journal). </div>

Trapped in Transylvania

<div>&ldquo;A treat for reluctant readers,&rdquo; as two sixth graders discover, when you can travel into books, going around the world is easy (School Library Journal). Middle schoolers Devin and Frankie&mdash;short for Francine&mdash;have found a unique shortcut to passing English. When their teacher gives them a book to read, they just toss it through the magic metal detector in their school library, which transports them into the world of the novel, allowing them to live the book firsthand and always get an A. The system works great until the librarian hires a repairman to fix what the kids call the &ldquo;zapper gates.&rdquo; While trying to distract him, Devin and Frankie drop a book through the detector, and find themselves on a whirlwind tour of the globe in Jules Verne&rsquo;s classic adventure. In the company of mad explorer Phileas Fogg, Devin and Frankie embark on a round-the-world journey by train, ship, and hot air balloon. But they&rsquo;ll have to race to beat the clock, or risk getting stuck in the book forever. As with other books in Tony Abbott&rsquo;s Cracked Classics series, &ldquo;the message that reading is important and can be fun comes through loud and clear. The short chapters make this an ideal read-aloud and a treat for reluctant readers&rdquo; (School Library Journal).</div>

What a Trip!

<div>Two sixth graders are magically swept away to Treasure Island, where they must match wits with legendary pirate Long John Silver. When best friends Devin and Frankie&mdash;short for Francine&mdash;get a tough assignment in their English class, they know there&rsquo;s only one way to handle it. Read the book? Nah, that&rsquo;s for suckers. Devin and Frankie just take the novel to the library and toss it through the magic metal detector, which sucks them into the world of the book, allowing them to experience the novel firsthand. Most of the time, this works great. This time, they get marooned on Treasure Island. The moment they step into Robert Louis Stevenson&rsquo;s classic pirate novel, Devin and Frankie find themselves neck deep in a hunt for buried treasure along with Long John Silver and his gang of cutthroats. These two wisecracking slackers will need to avoid rocking the boat&mdash;or they may have to walk the plank. School Library Journal has called the Devin and Frankie novels &ldquo;reminiscent of Mary Pope Osborne&rsquo;s &lsquo;Magic Tree House&rsquo; series, but for an older audience.&rdquo; X Marks the Spot is another lively introduction to the classics for reluctant readers. </div>

X Marks the Spot

<div>Liz and her friends battle a prehistoric dinosaur with a craving for junk food Everyone knows W. Reid Elementary has the grossest lunches&mdash;and the strangest problems. When piles of junk food start disappearing from the school&rsquo;s cellar, Liz Duffey and her friends brush it off as another unexplainable mystery of life in the Weird Zone&mdash;their nickname for the zany town of Grover&rsquo;s Mill. But when a scaly beast bursts out from underneath the cafeteria, they realize that what they thought was a mystery is a real monster with major hunger pangs! The kids must stop the creature from eating their entire school&mdash;and everyone in it. Is there anything this animal won&rsquo;t eat? Liz has an idea, but she may not have time to put her plan into action before becoming a meal herself!</div>

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The Beast from Beneath the Cafeteria!

<div>It&rsquo;s time for the W. Reid Elementary science fair&mdash;home to the weirdest inventions ever, and a lot of trouble! Mike is sure he&rsquo;s going to win the school science fair with his potato-powered radio, &ldquo;Potadio.&rdquo; But when his contraption is electrocuted to life, Mike suddenly has more to worry about than winning first prize. Potadio has a bad attitude, and he now controls the minds of the teachers and students. With his army of minions, Potadio plans to take over the world! Mike must figure out how to beat this spud before becoming a brain-dead zombie himself. Luckily, he has access to a science fair full of crazy inventions that just might help him defeat his creation!</div>

The Brain That Wouldn't Obey!

<div>For two sixth graders who feel about school the way Scrooge feels about Christmas, a magical trip into Dickens&rsquo;s tale is just what their spirits need. It&rsquo;s Christmastime at Palmdale Middle School, and the sixth grade class has organized a holiday banquet for local families in need. Best friends Devin and Frankie&mdash;short for Francine&mdash;are excited to eat, but they forgot to bring in food donations. They also didn&rsquo;t read A Christmas Carol for Mr. Wexler&rsquo;s English class. While the two fight over the school&rsquo;s last copy, the library&rsquo;s magic security gates suddenly transport them straight into Charles Dickens&rsquo;s timeless tale, where they come face to face with grouchy Ebenezer Scrooge, who&rsquo;s about to get a wake-up call from some ghosts on Christmas Eve. As the ghosts show the stingy Scrooge the consequences of all the selfish choices he&rsquo;s made in life, Devin and Frankie come to realize that they too have a few things to learn about kindness and generosity. Reluctant readers &ldquo;Devin and Frankie are wisecracking underachievers and their characterizations and dialogue ring true&rdquo; in Tony Abbott&rsquo;s Cracked Classics series (School Library Journal). </div>

Humbug Holiday

<div>Humongous Studios makes the weirdest horror movies ever, and in its next film, the monster is a real-life threat! Sean and Holly&rsquo;s dad owns the wackiest business in Grover&rsquo;s Mill: a horror filmmaking studio. For his newest movie, their dad has decided to feature a gigantic robot octopus as the star of the show. When Holly and Sean visit the studio with their friends, they are excited to get a first-hand look at how movies are made. Unfortunately, there is one problem: Gigantopus is completely out of control, and its alien master plans to use the star to take Grover&rsquo;s Mill back to her home planet! In a fight fit for the big screen, Holly and Sean must battle Gigantopus and save their town from being sucked into space. This may turn out to be their dad&rsquo;s oddest movie yet!</div>

Gigantopus from Planet X!

<div>Huge Tiki heads with a grudge against Grover&rsquo;s Mill are turning the town back into a jungle&mdash;it&rsquo;s the Weird Zone&rsquo;s weirdest trouble yet! All Mike and his friends want to do is play a game of baseball on their first day of summer vacation. But when Liz gets up to bat, home plate begins to shake. Suddenly, five odd-looking men carrying long sticks appear in the middle of the field. When they bang their sticks on the ground, Grover&rsquo;s Mill turns into a jungle, and giant Tiki heads start popping out of the earth. Even worse, these evil Tiki heads are out for revenge against Grover&rsquo;s Mill! An ancient prophecy predicts that the Tiki heads will destroy Grover&rsquo;s Mill. The kids must find a way to prevent it from coming true&mdash;and then turn back time. But the Tiki heads seem too powerful to beat. Can the kids save the day before they get trapped in the past?</div>

Revenge of the Tiki Men!

<div>All Jeff wanted was a part in the school play, but now he has to be a real hero . . . It&rsquo;s hard to be a normal kid in the Weird Zone! Jeff Ryan wants to play the Wizard in his school&rsquo;s outer-space version of The Wizard of Oz. To help with his audition, Jeff plans to bring his favorite childhood toy: a Cosmic Boy Space Helmet. But the Weird Zone seems to have other plans. On Jeff&rsquo;s way to school, a strange man with an even stranger face blasts him with an X-ray, and Jeff&rsquo;s Cosmic Boy helmet gets stuck on his head. He soon discovers that the man is actually an alien who plans to take over the world with his own mind-controlling Mezmo Head helmet! But the alien is not the only one with a supernatural weapon. Jeff&rsquo;s helmet gives him amazing powers, and now Cosmic Boy must save the world! </div>

Cosmic Boy Versus Mezmo Head!

<div>The Danger Guys find themselves in a real-life scary movie, and the ending is up to them It&rsquo;s Halloween, and best friends Noodle and Zeek have decided to make a horror movie in honor of the holiday. To show the boys how real films are made, Zeek&rsquo;s family takes them to Paragon, the oldest studio in Hollywood. During the tour, a huge lightning storm separates Noodle and Zeek from the rest of the group. The two boys suddenly find themselves in a world of famous sets and exciting props. It&rsquo;s the perfect location for their own movie! But it turns out that Paragon Studio has more than a little danger&mdash;and not just the staged kind. The lightning damaged the studio&rsquo;s central control center, and all the electronic props are now going crazy. Noodle and Zeek must battle an evil robot, a sneezing dinosaur, and a deadly mummy in order to find and warn Zeek&rsquo;s family. Little do they know that Zeek&rsquo;s family is also under attack! With some luck and a lot of movie drama, the Danger Guys show Paragon Studio what real heroes look like. Danger Guys: Hollywood Halloween on Ice is the 3rd book in Danger Guys, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Danger Guys: Hollywood Halloween

<div>Noodle and Zeek love danger, but when a real adventure comes their way, will they be ready? Best friends Noodle and Zeek are among the first in line when a new store, Danger Guy, opens in their local mall. It has all the survival gear the boys could dream of, and their excitement is lessened only when they notice two big, angry men yelling at the owner. When Noodle and Zeek wander into a small room on the other side of the store, they&rsquo;re shut inside. That&rsquo;s when the two realize they&rsquo;re in the back of a truck heading out of town. After a terrifying ride, Noodle and Zeek arrive at an ancient temple full of treasures. There they discover that their kidnappers are the two men from the store, and the boys are not the only ones who have been captured. The Emersons, a famous husband-and-wife explorer team, are there too. It&rsquo;s up to Noodle and Zeek to rescue the prisoners and save the day&mdash;before they&rsquo;re trapped in the temple forever! Danger Guys is the 1st book in Danger Guys, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Danger Guys

<div>Noodle and Zeek team up again to beat an evil scientist and save their school When best friends Noodle and Zeek get on a rocket ride at the carnival, they have no idea that they are about to be blasted into danger. The rocket turns out to be real, and when Noodle and Zeek crash-land, they are sucked into a secret laboratory under Mayville School. There they find their old science teacher Mr. Vazny&mdash;who&rsquo;s about to blow it up! The boys must snap into action to stop Vazny from going through with his evil plan. But to do so, they must defeat a giant robot, learn to fly the rocket, and defuse the bomb before it&rsquo;s too late. Can Noodle and Zeek save their school in time? The boys have their work cut out for them in this exciting Danger Guys adventure. Danger Guys Blast Off is the 2nd book in Danger Guys, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Danger Guys Blast Off

<div>Can Noodle and Zeek stop international treasure hunters and rescue their town? The Danger Guys are at it again! During a trip to the beach, best friends Noodle and Zeek try to relax and have a quiet, danger-free afternoon. But trouble follows these boys wherever they go. Before they know it, Noodle and Zeek find themselves stranded on a sinking boat in the middle of the ocean. To escape, the boys jump on a surfboard and ride a giant wave to a nearby island. The island is where their town&rsquo;s founder, Captain May, was shipwrecked hundreds of years ago. Noodle and Zeek soon discover that treasure hunters are on the island, searching for Captain May&rsquo;s lost gold. But to find it, the hunters are going to blow the ship out of the water, which would cause a tidal wave big enough to destroy Mayville! With some quick thinking&mdash;and a little bit of help from some old friends&mdash;the boys fight to save their town from disaster. Danger Guys Hit the Beach is the 4th book in Danger Guys, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Danger Guys Hit the Beach

<div>When an old nemesis reappears, Noodle and Zeek must save their town from a band of frozen cavemen Best friends Noodle and Zeek are on a skiing trip for Zeek&rsquo;s birthday when they uncover more than just snow hidden away in the mountain: The boys have stumbled across cave dwellers who are thousands of years old! But when Noodle and Zeek come across their old nemesis, the evil Mr. Vazny, the boys are shocked to learn that he plans to resurrect the cavemen and make them destroy Mayville. Once again, the boys must work together to take down Mr. Vazny and stop his wicked scheme. But what happens if one of the cavemen escapes? It&rsquo;s Noodle and Zeek to the rescue in this thrilling installment in the Danger Guys series. Danger Guys on Ice is the 5th book in Danger Guys, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Danger Guys on Ice

<div>The Danger Guys head to the jungle on a quest to find an ancient treasure It&rsquo;s Noodle and Zeek&rsquo;s greatest adventure yet! The boys are excited to learn that they are going on a quest for the mysterious Golden Lizard with the Emersons, the famous husband-and-wife explorer team. What could be more daring and fun than a treasure hunt in the jungle? But as the group soon discovers, they aren&rsquo;t the only ones after the Golden Lizard. When the Emersons are kidnapped, Noodle and Zeek know it is up to them to save the day. The boys must rescue the Emersons, fight off ninja linebackers, and find the Golden Lizard before the bad guys can. But the truth about the legendary Golden Lizard is something that Noodle and Zeek could never have imagined. Danger Guys and the Golden Lizard is the 6th book in Danger Guys, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Danger Guys and the Golden Lizard

<div>Their first names are Noodle and Zeek, but their middle names are &ldquo;Danger&rdquo;&mdash;in this &ldquo;exciting&rdquo; series from the author of the Secrets of Droon (Booklist). Best buddies Noodle and Zeek love adventure&mdash;and that&rsquo;s a good thing, because they clearly can&rsquo;t stay out of trouble. &ldquo;A throwback to the Hardy Boys&rdquo; mixed with &ldquo;plotting reminiscent of Saturday-morning cartoons,&rdquo; award-winning author Tony Abbott&rsquo;s high-energy series is pure fun (Booklist). This complete set of all six books kicks off with Danger Guys, a &ldquo;good-natured parody of the likes of Indiana Jones films&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Danger Guys: Best friends Noodle and Zeek are among the first in line when a new store selling survival gear, Danger Guy, opens in their mall. But when a small room in the store turns out to be the back of a truck, they&rsquo;re in for a terrifying ride to an ancient temple full of treasures. Danger Guys Blast Off: When Noodle and Zeek discover their old science teacher is actually an evil scientist who wants to blow up their school, they must defeat a giant robot, learn to fly a rocket, and defuse the bomb before it&rsquo;s too late. Danger Guys: Hollywood Halloween: The boys can&rsquo;t wait to tour a real Hollywood movie studio&mdash;until electronic props go haywire and the friends must battle an evil robot, a sneezing dinosaur, and a deadly mummy. Danger Guys Hit the Beach: Noodle and Zeek are about to discover that stopping treasure hunters is no day at the beach. Danger Guys on Ice: On a skiing trip, the boys stumble upon frozen cavemen&mdash;and their cold-blooded former science teacher, the evil Mr. Vazny, who plans to reanimate the cavemen and use them to destroy Mayville. Danger Guys and the Golden Lizard: On a jungle quest for the legendary Golden Lizard, the boys must rescue a kidnapped husband-and-wife explorer team, fight off ninja linebackers, and find the treasure before the bad guys.</div>

Danger Guys: The Complete Series

<div>When two sixth-grade friends magically enter classic literary books, their fun-filled adventures are &ldquo;a treat for reluctant readers&rdquo; (School Library Journal). They just didn&rsquo;t want to read the books! Instead, through their school library&rsquo;s magic security gates, sixth graders Devin and Frankie&mdash;short for Francine&mdash;are zapped into great works of literature and new worlds of adventure, including Dracula, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Christmas Carol, Treasure Island, and Romeo and Juliet. &ldquo;The message that reading is important and can be fun comes through loud and clear&rdquo; (School Library Journal). Trapped in Transylvania: Transported into Bram Stoker&rsquo;s vampire classic, the sarcastic sixth graders will need a few stakes, a lot of garlic, and a sharp sense of humor to defeat the bloodthirsty Count Dracula. Mississippi River Blues: These modern middle schoolers learn being a troublemaker is timeless, as they whitewash a fence, run away from home, solve a murder, become pirates, and search for hidden treasure along with Tom and Huck, the original slackers. What a Trip!: When you can travel into books, going around the world is easy. In the company of mad explorer Phileas Fogg, Devin and Frankie embark on a round-the-world journey by train, ship, and hot air balloon. Humbug Holiday: For two sixth graders who feel about school the way Scrooge feels about Christmas, an enchanted trip into Charles Dickens&rsquo;s tale is just what their spirits need. X Marks the Spot: Devin and Frankie become marooned middle schoolers when they are swept away to Treasure Island and must match wits with legendary pirate Long John Silver. Crushing on a Capulet: Devin and Frankie try to save star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet when they find themselves in Shakespeare&rsquo;s classic play.</div>

Cracked Classics

<div>Think your town is weird? Step into Grover&rsquo;s Mill&mdash;known to the local kids as the &ldquo;Weird Zone&rdquo;&mdash;from the award-winning author of the Secrets of Droon series. There&rsquo;s no place like home. Seriously, there&rsquo;s no place like the bizarre town of Grover&rsquo;s Mill, home to friends Liz, Holly, Sean, Jeff, and Mike&mdash;but also to aliens, monsters, dinosaurs, giant robots, and a potato capable of mind control. It could have something to do with the location&mdash;in the middle of a triangle containing a secret UFO testing base, a dinosaur burial ground, and a cheesy horror movie studio. Whatever the reason, enter at your own risk . . . Zombie Surf Commandos from Mars!: When disgusting alien zombies start rising from the lake, Holly, Liz, and Jeff must escape&mdash;or their brains will become an afternoon snack. The Incredible Shrinking Kid!: After a blast of purple light zaps Holly&rsquo;s brother, Sean&mdash;shrinking him to four inches&mdash;the friends need to make sure he doesn&rsquo;t end up in an evil toy-store owner&rsquo;s collection. The Beast from Beneath the Cafeteria!: Liz and her friends battle a dinosaur with a craving for junk food&mdash;and an appetite for destruction. Attack of the Alien Mole Invaders!: Not to make a mountain out of a molehill&mdash;but a colony of giant moles from outer space has tunneled under Grover&rsquo;s Mill. With the help of a secret government invention, Jeff and Holly must stop them in their tracks. The Brain That Wouldn&rsquo;t Obey!: Mike is sure he&rsquo;s going to win the school science fair with his potato-powered radio, &ldquo;Potadio.&rdquo; But when his invention is electrocuted to life and takes over the minds of the teachers and students, it&rsquo;s boy vs. spud. Gigantopus from Planet X!: When Sean and Holly must battle a gigantic robot octopus controlled by an evil alien, it sucks big-time. Cosmic Boy Versus Mezmo Head!: After an alien blasts Jeff with an X-ray on his way to audition for his school&rsquo;s outer space version of The Wizard of Oz, his favorite childhood toy, a Cosmic Boy space helmet, gets stuck on his head. The space invader has his own mind-controlling Mezmo head helmet, and now the two will butt heads . . . or, uh, helmets. Revenge of the Tiki Men!: There&rsquo;s no time to lounge around&mdash;huge Tiki heads with a grudge against Grover&rsquo;s Mill are turning the town back into a jungle. It&rsquo;s up to the kids to fend off a total disaster.</div>

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