The fourth book in the series about Marvin, a precocious eleven year old, who tries in vain to be good, but always seems to make the decisions that land him in trouble with his parents, teachers and classmates. Marvin struggles to impress the girl he likes, while trying to avoid the class bully. Along the way, he creates a special friendship with his teacher, and encounters many of life's humorous hurdles through the eyes of a fourth grader. Parents, teachers and students will see many parallels to their own lives, as the elements in these stories are taken from real-life experiences...

Dead They were all dead Murry Peterson is still dealing with the realization that her handler and three of her teammates are dead. Michael remains in a coma, and worst of all, she was the one who had killed Cliff, the love of her life, after discovering that he worked for the KGB. Now, another chapter is about to begin in her life as she starts high school. However, another handler comes into the picture, shattering her hopes for a return to a normal life; the creepy Mr. Smith who was responsible for staging the "school bus accident" which claimed her friends. There is a new team, with new...

After narrowly averting General Zarkov's plan to kill millions of people and the President of the United States at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Murry Peterson barely has time to recover from the death of another teammate. She is kidnapped by the CIA and taken to a secret training facility, where she finally receives the same training an adult agent receives, including how to kill. Approached by the corrupt section chief, MacGuffin, Murry allows him to believe that she will work with him. Meanwhile, the team is sent to Europe, as exchange students to track down Zarkov. Little does...

A little bird sits high on a wire, watching the strange pink monkeys below him. Father bird warns him that they are dangerous, but he is curious and decides to ask the other animals about them. He questions a robin, a horse, a cow, a honeybee, an ant, a dog, a deer, a rabbit, and an owl, all of whom warn him of the dangers connected to the fearsome beasts. The owl tells the little bird how they fight in great wars, and participate in animal slavery, poisoning the air and water, and even killing their own kind. The little bird can scarcely believe that such creatures exist, so he goes out into...

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of one of the greatest battles in history; now home to a sinister conspiracy dating back to the founding of the United States itself and reaching into the deepest and most secretive levels of the government; a conspiracy that threatens to plunge the world into a chasm of domination and nuclear devastation. Muriel Peterson's grandfather is killed in 1976. Four years later, the guidance counselor at her new junior high school asks if she is a good American and offers to free her from the boredom of being a preteen in her small Pennsylvania town. He asks her to...

Nuclear weapons, a rogue Russian general and Soviet sleeper agents have made it to the shores of the United States A vast conspiracy begins to take shape; one that threatens to unravel the very threads of democracy. It's 1982 and the Cold War is heating up. Andropov has become the leader of the USSR, and his anti-American sentiments are affecting the entire world. A passenger jet is shot down and tensions are high. Is the world on the brink of a nuclear war? Muriel Peterson is attempting to make it through her last year in junior high school alive in more ways than one. Her relationship with...

General Zarkov is dead, but only Muriel Peterson and Officer Laskey know about it. While Laskey is on medical leave, MacGuffin approaches Murry personally, attempting to incorporate her into his plans for world domination by ODESSA. Murry discovers that one of her old friends has allied herself with a conspiracy theorist and has uncovered information about the A.S.E. group's connection to the CIA. She also discovers information on a system of computers and satellites known as Echelon, which allows the government to spy on every telephone call, or transmission made in the entire world. To keep...

They have her brother MacGuffin, and Alicia have taken Jack Peterson hostage, giving Murry only forty-eight hours to surrender to them She is out of options... All the pieces are in place. All the conspiracies and deceits are out in the open. Or are they? Murry tries to assemble an army to rescue her brother, but there is no one left. Christopher, Jordan, Dylan, Christian, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Smith are all dead. Michael is still in a coma from which he will likely never recover, Alicia and Jacob have gone over to the dark side and Cliff is a member of the KGB That leaves Murry and Matthew....