Michael Dahl
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As a new day dawns, a young girl faces the ultimate challenge: school! Follow along as she demonstrates her greatest superpower (sharing), overcomes her worst fear (the playground), and conquers her archenemy (the spelling test). With courage, kindness, and other heroic traits of DC Comics' Wonder Woman, she'll turn a difficult school day into an AMAZING ADVENTURE! Along with Omar Lozano's bright, bold illustrations, bestselling author Michael Dahl...
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Laughter is the best medicine, and this book has plenty of dosages! Michael Dahl's Big Book of Jokes is packed with jokes and riddles, covering everything from school jokes to knock-knock and animal jokes. Read them on your own, tell them to your friends, and most of all, have a hilarious time!
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Adams Media
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2010
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
Knock, knock. Who's there?
What do you get when you...?
As kids guess the answers, they're sure to get the giggles! With this book, little ones will look forward to sharing the jokes with parents, teachers, and siblings—and even coming up with some variations of their own! In addition to hundreds of rib-tickling jokes, readers will love:Head-scratching brain teasers Funny knock-knock ...
Knock, knock. Who's there?
What do you get when you...?
As kids guess the answers, they're sure to get the giggles! With this book, little ones will look forward to sharing the jokes with parents, teachers, and siblings—and even coming up with some variations of their own! In addition to hundreds of rib-tickling jokes, readers will love:
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One night, a young student's thesaurus disappears from her bedroom. A trail of slimy footprints leads to the bedroom window, so she looks outside and sees the thesaurus down below in the grass. Then, suddenly, a colossal monster unfolds itself from the pages of the thesaurus like an origami creation gone terribly wrong. Soon, it towers above the family's house, constantly changing its form and sprouting a new weapon with each transformation! Who could...
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Late one night, two friends hurry home after a birthday party ends. On the way, they spy a small lending library that hadn’t been there before the party. When they open the little door and browse the books, a claw reaches out and pulls the girls inside! They find themselves trapped in a dark world with a shadowy beast that has a taste for voracious readers . . .
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Slate is a cliffhanger—a person who tracks down specific books on the skyscraper-like shelves deep within the Library of Doom. Slate boasts he can find any book, even the one no Librarian has been able to locate: THE SCRAWLER. To prove his worth, Slate braves the forbidden Black Shelves, a maze so dark and cold that all sound is sucked from the air—and no words can be spoken. But before Slate can locate the long-lost book, he finds more...
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The most fearsome book in the Library of Doom contains a single sentence, but if it is read, the reader will vanish into nothingness. The book is now loose in a small town, lying on the floor of a school bus, where anyone can find it and open its cover. The only hero who can handle the World's Shortest Story is the one with a very special ability . . . the Blind Librarian. This gripping mystery is followed up with discussion questions, writing...
10) Tome Raider
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A shadowy thief is haunting the Library of Doom. The crook is outsmarting all the Library's ancient security devices, one by one. Nothing can stop him. But how is that possible? And what's worse, the thief is heading toward the Library's most amazing weapon . . . the Eye of the I, a gleaming pearl that can transform its owner into anyone else in the world! Can the Librarians stop the crook before it's too late? This gripping mystery is followed up...
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What if you only had one hundred words to warn humanity of a deadly danger? What if your favorite sci-fi movie suddenly turned into a real-life worst nightmare? What if a girl you've never seen before keeps showing up in photos on your cell phone? What if you hear a knocking sound in the middle of the night? In each of the 27 tales in this book, people are afraid. Very afraid. Read their stories. See if you share their fears. Because if you don't...
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"Batman has been kidnapped by the Riddler! The crook has left behind one of his infamous riddles, addressed to Robin. If Robin can solve the puzzle, he will locate the Caped Crusader, but that first riddle leads to another. Then the Riddler turns off all the lights in Gotham City. What, Robin wonders, is the point? When will the riddles end? If the Boy Wonder cannot find his partner by the next sunrise, Batman will be gone forever"--Page 4 of cover....
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The distant planet Krypton faces total destruction. Before it explodes, the scientist Jor-El and his wife Lara send their only son into outer space. Later, the child's rocket crashes into a Kansas cornfield where a farmer and his wife discover the boy and his strange powers.