Book Description SOMETHING ROTTEN IS LURKING AT THIS RANCH! It's winter in Bayport, but things are heating up at the Morton family farm It looks like someone is wreaking havoc with the property, and Chet aантииnd Iola Morton are worried that their grandparents are in danger of losing it! With their parents out of reach, the Mortons call on Frank and Joe Hardy for help They need to figure out who's behind the trouble -- and fast The Hardys are hot on the trail, but the Morаящйрtons' grandparents dosomething unexpected -- and the boys are stopped in their tracks Can Frank and Joe plow through this mystery before the farm is snowed under?.

Book Description There are strange goings-on once again in Middleburg Someone has put up posters warning townspeople that the dreaded Indiana Aztec bat has been sighted in the area What's more, the town isанруц in an uproar over the bells recently placedin the church belfry that chime every hour -- twenty-four hours a day! It seems the whole town is going batty with the constant pealing! Bernie Magruder is determined to get to the bottom of things Who put up all those postаячяфers about a species of batno one has ever heard of? What can the townspeople do to return some peace to their lives? And are the bats that Bernie and his family see swooping about the belfry the dreaded Indiana Aztecs? Looks like Bernie, and his two friends Georgene and Weasel, have their work cut out for them again!.

Book DescriptionJenny Jakes and her mother, a famous mystery writer, travel to San Antonio to see their cousin, Arnold Harmony, who's made his fortune in the chocolate business Harmony, an eccentric millionaiантитre, wants his will read publicly before he dies; since everyone wants a piece of the pie, this announcement causes quite a stir When Harmony's son is murdered just before the reading, Jenny's mother decides to spring into action as a real-life detective But Jenny's mаящйсother doesn't have a clue aboutsolving a real crime, so it's up to Jenny to use her wits, not only to save her mother's reputation, but also to keep herself from being killed From the Paperback edition.

Book DescriptionIn The Case of the Drooling Dinosaurs, the museum's dinosaurs have come alive, and they're on the move, slobbering everywhere Something must be done! But what? How could these museum relics coанруэme to life and threaten an entire city, and possibly the world? Only Secret Agent Dingledorf and his trusty dog Splat can find the answer and save the day.

Book Description "One of the most feared of a witch's powers is that of the evil eye" After throwing Mrs Tuggle's evil glass eye into the creek, Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, anticipate a sантицoothing summer But when Lynn notices some strange-looking purple plants growing down by the creek, she begins to worry Is she imagining it, or are the plants sprouting right near where she threw the eye? What's worse is that some girls from school may be starting thаящйъeir own coven of witches -- and Mouse might be getting sucked in! Does Mrs Tuggle have unfinished business with them? And if so, can Lynn fight her evil again?.

Book Description Frank and Joe get revved up to race for their lives! The Hardy boys and their friend Jamal are thrilled to be participating in a motorcycle exhibition It's going to be an exciting weekend,анрус with many talentedcyclists heating up the competition and a valuable prize for the winner -- a classic motorcycle! But when burglaries and suspicious accidents send the benefit skidding out of control, Frank and Joe find themselves racing to crack another case As thаячятe Hardys make their way through the long list of possible saboteurs, danger gains on them Can they cut the criminal off before the finish line, or is this race speeding toward disaster?.

AmazoncomFrom its opening scene, in which a teenage girl overhears her stepfather's creepy confessions, to its terrifying conclusion in a deserted mine shaft, Tim Wynne-Jones's The Boy in the Burning House haанруьs the magnetic energy of a well-crafted made-for-television thriller, without pausing for commercial breaks Like the best of the TV thrillers, The Boy in the Burning House features a smiling, unredeemable villain: Father Fisher, who leads the Church of the Blessed Traаяшагnsfiguration in a remote farming community Fourteen-year-old Jim Hawkins's father, Hub, has disappeared, and Ruth Rose, the pastor's stepdaughter, tries to convince him that Fisher killed Hub If that possibility isn't unsavory enough, Jim discovers that his dad and Fisher were both involved in a fire that killed another teenage boy 30 years before It is the unraveling of this long-hidden mystery that gives The Boy in the Burning House its page-turning edginess As Jim investigateбмычжs his father's past, his memories of a gentle and morally upright father are twisted out of shape "He felt like he was burning up," Wynne-Jones writes, "and there was a boy inside him hammering to get out into the air" As the novel roars towards its conclusion, some of its psychological richness and narrative consistency are sacrificed to fast-paced action sequences Fisher's midnight stalking of Jim and Ruth Rose is as terrifying as Jack Nicholson's frenzied house crawl in The Shining, but Wynne-Jones never fully explains how Fisher became a monster The Boy in the Burning House is a great read, but one that starts to wobble like a house of cards once the thrills are over --Lisa AlwardBook Description An Edgar Award Winner Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose Moody, prбсуыеovocative, she's thebad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim's father's childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer "Don't you want to know who he murdered?" she asks Jim doesn't Ruth Rose is clearly crazy -- a sixteen-year-old misfit Yet something about her fierce conviction pierces Jim's shell He begins to burn with a desire for the truth, until it becomes clear that it may be more unsettling than he can bear What is the real meaning of the strange prayers Father Fisher intones behind the door of his private sanctuary? Why does Ruth Rose suddenly disappear? And what really happened thirty years ago when a boy died in a burning house?.

Book DescriptionSomeone has been leaving creepy notes in lockers, notebooks, and knapsacks all over school, with messages like "I Know What You Did Last Week" Students are getting really annoyed Anансечd the notes all appear to be written by one person-Lizzie McGuire! But who would want to frame Lizzie for such a totally bizarro prank? Time for Lizzie to track down the guilty party before she's exiled to Loser-ville forever!.

Book DescriptionCount Snobula is tired of getting no respect When he discovers the existence of a mysterious charm with the power to change his luck, he sets out to find it Before long, he has recruited his ансещcousin Odette to help him search With these two vampires on a mission, no neck is safe-two vampires is too many!.

Book Description Sunny has always been terrified of the Gingerbread House, a peculiar pastry shop with a giant cage for trapping naughty children Now she's been asked to lend the place a helping hand!The reанрфвst of the Help-for-Hire crew quickly agreeswith Sunny, as soon as they discover a not-so-sweet surprise: Somebody's putting dead things in the tasty treats And the team's fractured fairy tale is only just beginning Sunny and her friends have to act fast Nobody аяшадwants the Gingerbread House to crumble - not if Help-for-Hire will take the blame.