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They're troubling. They're bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They're Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are three spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children's author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark. Includes Jake and the Giant Hand Jake doesn't really believe a giant's hand was found in a field near his grandfather's farm, but when Jake begins noticing giant flies...
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The second instalment in a series of scary tall tales from acclaimed children's novelist Philippa Dowding. I will never leave this car, the back seat reeks of everything my little brother has ever eaten, and that thing is still out there … Myles and his family have been driving for four days. It's their final night on the road, but Myles knows they will never arrive at their new house. It will never stop raining. And even if they do get there (which...
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The first in a series of scary tall tales from award-winning children's novelist Philippa Dowding. Why is Grandpa acting so weird? And why are there so many giant flies? Jake spends every summer on his grandpa's farm. But this year, things are a little weird. First, there are huge flies everywhere. Second, Grandpa is acting kind of funny. And third, Jake's friend Kate keeps trying to scare him with creepy stories. Last year's tale about the swamp...
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Carter discovers a creepy maze at the fair and travels farther and farther back in time. How will he ever get back to the present? The fair is dull, dull, dull, and nothing interesting will ever happen to Carter again … until Carter discovers the curious maze. Nothing has ever happened here in the history of the world, he thinks. But the maze has some strange secrets, and the spot Carter stands upon has seen some very exciting events over the centuries....
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They're troubling. They're bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They're Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are two spectacularly spooky stories from acclaimed children's author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies and mysterious monsters in the dark. Includes: • Jake and the Giant Hand - Jake doesn't really believe a giant's hand was found in a field near his grandfather's farm, but when Jake begins noticing giant...
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What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle? And what if he just happened to be in terrible danger? It's not always easy, but thirteen-year-old Katherine Newberry is friends with a gargoyle. His name is Gargoth of Tallus, and he lives in her backyard. Gargoth has lost the only creature on the planet who can help him. Her name is Ambergine, and she's been his greatest friend for hundreds of years. What Katherine and Gargoth don't know...
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This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the Lost Gargoyle series! In The Gargoyle in My Yard, Katherine meets an ancient wandering gargoyle named Gargoth. He ends up being adopted by her family, but all is not well since his nemesis, the cruel The Collector, is lurking - he once owned Gargoth and wants him back. The story continues in The Gargoyle Overhead, in which Gargoth is reunited with his oldest friend, Ambergine. Finally, in...
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Quinn might get used to the food, Work Bots, and creating the Blue Brick™ ... but why are children all around him turning blue?
Quinn Fleet, twelve, Packager (QF12P) has only been at the Work Centre for three days, but he's already seen a Caver run away, faced interrogation, and been made to stand in front of a crowd of children in the Grand Hall to apologize for breaking a Blue Brick™.
That's when he notices that all the children at the...
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They're troubling. They're bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They're Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are five spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children's author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark. Jake and the Giant Hand-Book #1. Jake doesn't really believe a giant's hand was found in a field near his grandfather's farm, but when Jake begins noticing giant flies...
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Beware The Other … Alex is the loneliest boy at school. Not only are his parents away (again), but his beloved cat is missing. Plus, one morning his reflection in the haunted bathroom mirror at school starts talking to him. Then two mysterious strangers in overcoats and sunglasses appear, whispering the same message, over and over: Beware The Other.… But, worse than all that, is the girl with the braid. She looks just like Alex. She's better than...
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What do you do when a 400-year-old gargoyle moves into your backyard? Especially when no one else but you knows he's ALIVE? Twelve-year-old Katherine Newberry can tell you all about life with a gargoyle. He's naughty. He gets people into trouble. He howls at the moon, breaks statues, and tramples flowers to bits, all the while making it look like you did it! He likes to throw apple cores and stick his tongue out at people when they aren't looking....
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What do you do when the park next door is inhabited by 400-year-old creatures? Christopher has a problem. He has just moved to Toronto. He has a new school and no friends. But even worse, the park next door is creepy: voices whisper in the bushes, and something throws apples at his window and howls at the moon. But what? Gargoyles! Their names are Gargoth and Ambergine, and they need help. An evil thief called the Collector is after them and wants...
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Do you hear the distant drums? And what about that weird screaming … Emma Blackwell used to love mermaids. Jonah Blackwell used to love pirates. And William Blackwell tried to be a good captain. Which he would be, if he could get his twin brother and sister to stop fighting long enough to sail their boat, the Peregrine, across the bay. But after the Blackwells see a phantom ship, barely survive a terrible storm, and then mysteriously wake up with...
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This morning, I woke up on the ceiling ... So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother's Batman balloons. Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks she's an oddball with anger issues because her father vanished in a mysterious storm one night when she was six. Then there are the mean, false rumours people are spreading...
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The Night Flyers glide effortlessly over the rooftops of their small town in a strange, magical escape from the pressures of high school. Meet Gwendolyn and Everton in this two-book collection of The Night Flyer's Handbook series. The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden Gwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until … one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with her many average teenage qualities, Gwendolyn...
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The sequel to The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden. I wander around like any normal, paranoid, self-absorbed teenager. Do we all think we're being chased by deadly entities, I wonder? Probably, but how many of us actually are? Gwendolyn Golden, Night Flyer, floats over the cornfields all summer. What draws her to the same spot, night after night? All she knows is that change is coming: she's starting high school plus there's a strange new boy in town....
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