When the sixth grade decides to film a monster movie as a class project, the camera reveals something unexpected.

When the sixth grade decides to film a monster movie as a class project, the camera reveals something unexpected.

Three friends pursue proof that the new Romanian actor/professor in town doing the role of Count Dracula in a play really is a vampire.

While travelling through the Dread Swamp, Thurvok, the sellsword, and his friends, Meldom, thief, cutpurse and occasional assassin, Meldom’s sweetheart Lysha and the sorceress Sharenna come across an overturned wagon and the terrified merchant Polyxo who babbles that a monster has taken his daughter Cerissa. Because they are heroes – and because Polyxo has offered them a sizeable reward – the quartet of adventurers offers to rescue Cerissa from the thing that lives in the Dread Swamp. This is a short story of 5300 words or 19 print pages in the Thurvok sword and sorcery series, but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword.

Raymond Almond, the Often Nervous, and J. Huntley English, Monster Hunter, try to track down the wolflike beast haunting Lost Woods. Sequel to "The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster" and "The Case of the Visiting Vampire."

Gretchen, and her stepbrother, Clark hate staying at their grandparents' house. Grandpa Eddie is totally deaf. And all Grandma Rose wants to do is bake. Plus, they live right in the middle of a dark, muddy swamp.Things couldn't get any worse, right? WRONG.Because there's something really weird about Grandma and Grandpa's house. Something odd about that room upstairs. The one that's locked. The one with the strange noises coming from it.Strange growling noises...

Suggests activities to be used at home to accompany the reading of Miss Nelson is missing by Harry Allard in the classroom.

The Hardy boys, vacationing in Vermont, offer to help the police locate a missing camper and find themselves involved with a doomsday cult, a deadly strain of bacteria, and possibly the devil.

This volume describes and lists series published for young people from early elementary grades through high school. Fiction series from 1976 through 1990 (and new titles in existing series through 1991) are included, as well as nonfiction series, which are limited to in-print titles only.

Concise summaries of 81 books arranged under nine developmental goals for middle grade readers.