When Desperate Evil Wicked Bob, a pirate, and his talking penguin, Captain Jack, come to live with Wilson and his parents, life suddenly gets more exciting. But the fun really begins when Captain Jack starts attending Very Elementary, a school as far from shipshape and Bristol fashion as a school could be. With a little bit of imagination and a lot of humor, Desperate Evil Wicked Bob turns mollymockery into mathematics, and young Wilson gets what every kid wants--a pirate for an uncle.
When Desperate Evil Wicked Bob, a pirate, and his talking penguin, Captain Jack, come to live with Wilson and his parents, life suddenly gets more exc...
A badly spelled message in a bottle addressed to Uncle Pirate appears at Wilson's front door, and Mom starts baking bad news pie--this can't be good. Uncle Pirate's formerly mutinous crew is marooned on an island Though Uncle Pirate is loyal to his new crew at Very Elementary, he cannot desert his old shipmates and sets off to find them. But when he doesn't return, it's Uncle Pirate who needs rescuing Wilson, Captain Jack the penguin, Ms. Quern the school secretary, and sneaky Principal Purvis set off in a blimp to save the day in this rollicking read that's ideal for adventurous young...
A badly spelled message in a bottle addressed to Uncle Pirate appears at Wilson's front door, and Mom starts baking bad news pie--this can't be good. ...
It doesn t take long for Cody Elliot to realize that his new high school is a little different. The other students are supernaturally strong, don t like the sunlight, and are always placing orders at the local blood bank. When his new friend shows him his fangs, Cody doesn t need any more clues these kids are vampires As Cody struggles to fit into this secretive community, he disrupts centuries of human-vampire segregation, with some serious and some seriously funny consequences. In sharp, humorous, and insightful prose, Douglas Rees creates a world of vampires where the real issue for...
It doesn t take long for Cody Elliot to realize that his new high school is a little different. The other students are supernaturally strong, don t li...
Funny and smart with all the angst and sass of adolescence and a colorful cast of characters, this is a refreshing contemporary coming-of-age YA about one Greek-American girl's odyssey home. Sixteen-year-old Elektra Kamenides is well on her way to becoming a proper southern belle in the small Mississippi college town she calls home. That is, until her mother decides to uproot her and her kid sister Thalia and start over in California. They leave behind Elektra's father--a professor and leading expert on Greek mythology, and Elektra can't understand why. For her, life is...
Funny and smart with all the angst and sass of adolescence and a colorful cast of characters, this is a refreshing contemporary coming-of-age YA ab...
