Readers spend the day with second-grader Marvin Monster and his friends, werewolves, goblins, and banshees, at Grim Castle Elementary School. Marvin learns an important lesson about the importance of keeping your promises. A new series that teaches important social skills. Kids will learn an important lesson from this charmingly gruesome monster and his friends. The text is lively and the monster-world details are developed throughout--from Slug Slime hair gel to howling class to snailwiches and toad-warts. Not since the Adams Family has a group of characters grabbed readers young and old alike. Illustrator Bonnie Everett-Hawkes brings the gruesome characteristics to life in page after page of artfully drawn scenes.

Included on the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics's recommended resource list

Meet Marvin, a lovable monster with a twelve-stringed baby fang guitar, a rambunctious case of ADHD, emotions that sometimes overwhelm him (and others), and a diary to record it all. While Marvin got it together in Marvin's Monster Diary: ADHD Attacks, his lab partner Lyssa's emotional roller coaster is a bit out of control. Can he help her--and win the Science Scare-Fair--before she explodes? In the same humorous spirit of Diary of a Wimpy Kid comes Marvin's Monster Diary: ADHD Emotion Explosion Using the "monstercam" and "ST4" techniques developed by Dr. Raun Melmed of the Melmed Center in Arizona, Marvin's Monster Diary: ADHD Emotion Explosion teaches kids how to be mindful, observe their surroundings, and take time to think about their actions. Marvin's hilarious doodles and diary entries chronicle his delightful adventures, misadventures, and eventual triumph in a funny, relatable way. It's the series on ADHD that kids will actually want to read! Marvin's Monster Diary: ADHD Emotion Explosion also includes a resource section to help parents and teachers implement Dr. Melmed's methods, plus ST4 badge reminders that kids can remove, color, and place around the house.

Marvin Monster has a BIG date: he's walking to school with Reba Banshee, his newest classmate at Grim Castle Elementary. But when Marvin doesn't keep his word to another friend, not even a whiff of Nurse Hagilda's skunk juice will help break the curse! Fearless readers will howl in delight as they discover that in the monsterific world of Marshville. Even monsters, goblins, werewolves, and banshees shouldn't make promises they can't keep! This volume also includes Marvin Monster's Teachers Jitters. "Have you heard?" "She did WHAT?" Marvin Monster and his friends face what may be the most horrific thing to ever happen at Grim Castle Elementary—according to the gossip, Miss Witchafred is taking over the classroom, and Marvin and his classmates don't want to be her next spellbinding targets. When the class takes a trip around their town of Marshville where bats sort mail and chomping gators recycle trash, Marvin Monster has a plan to get rid of Miss Witchafred. But when things go wrong and spells are boogered, will Marvin regret listening to the gossip and we will his new teacher stay at Grim Castle?

A collection of tall tales by Paul and Bil Lepp, two repeat winners of the West Virginia State Liars Contest.

Young Readers will FLIP OVER for two books in one Written by Tabatha Jean D'Agata, Illustratedby award-winning animator Ed Newmann - What happens when a monster doesn't keep his word or when Marvin Monster confronts what might be the most horrible thing to ever happen to Grim Castle Elementary? Flash your widest, toothiest monster smile, lock your claws in the dirt, and join Marvin Monster and his classmates for two terrifically horrific adventures! Read BIG DATE and then flip the book over to read TEACHER JITTERS in reverse, it's monsterific!

School’s out and summer camp’s in! When Marvin and his friends meet Joey, a lake monster with a loud mouth and few manners, it seems that Marvin is the only kid in camp who will be his friend. And Marvin’s friendship with the lake monster is causing ripples among his other friends. No one wants to be around the kid who cuts in line, or talks over them, or tells them what he really thinks about their art project. But Joey secretly wants only one thing: friends. Can Marvin help Joey learn how to make—and keep—friends? Marvin's hilarious doodles and diary entries chronicle his delightful adventures, misadventures, and eventual triumph in a funny, relatable way. It's the one series on ADHD and associated issues that kids will actually want to read!

Marvin the ape slips out of the zoo and finds he likes it on the outside, where he easily blends into city lifestyles.

A new anthology of cocaine stories from the creators of The Speed Chronicles—“Caution: these stories are addicting” (Harlan Coben). This ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon. Cocaine is the subject, the whys and whereofs in The Cocaine Chronicles, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today’s most thought-provoking writers. Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.

"This story is of a monster who is sad and quite blue, so he decided to set out and see something new. He wanders and walks til he finds a new place, where he discovers something awesome that puts a smile on his face."--Back cover.