Brandon accidentally breaks a window in the home of mad scientist Dr. Joseph Wentmeyer and agrees to work off the cost of the window cleaning the doctor's lab, where he discovers a time machine that takes him back in time to the age of the dinosaurs.

Brandon accidentally breaks a window in the home of mad scientist Dr. Joseph Wentmeyer and agrees to work off the cost of the window cleaning the doctor's lab, where he discovers a time machine that takes him back in time to the age of the dinosaurs.

The spirit of West Virginia and its people are best exemplified by the state's most central feature-the Appalachian Mountains. West Virginians are hardy, enduring, and rugged, with a resourcefulness that matches the bounty of natural resources locked within those mountains. In colonial times, West Virginia was considered the western frontier and was part of the Virginia colony. The state's economy has been driven by its rich reserves of natural resources, and its culture has been enriched by its resourceful and spirited populace-including many famous actors, athletes, astronauts, authors, and mathematicians. West Virginia is a state of mountains and mountaineers, forever reaching To The sky and well-grounded within the rich earth. Its compelling history is revealed here in great detail and with a suitably noble and uplifting spirit.

Want to identify fiction books that boys in grades three through nine will find irresistible? This guide reveals dozens of worthwhile recommendations in categories ranging from adventure stories and sports novels to horror, humorous, and science fiction books. In Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love, authors Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia A. Kochel provide compelling and current reading suggestions for younger boys—information that educators, librarians, and parents alike are desperate for. Comprising titles that are almost all well-reviewed in at least one major professional journal, or that are such big hits with kids that they've received the "stamp of approval" from the most important reviewers, this book will be invaluable to anyone whose goal is to help boys develop a healthy enthusiasm for reading. It includes chapters on adventure books; animal stories; graphic novels; historical fiction; humorous books; mystery, horror, and suspense titles; science fiction and fantasy; and sports novels. Within each chapter, the selections are further divided into books for younger readers (grades 3–6) and titles for older boys in grades 5–8. Elementary and middle school librarians and teachers, public librarians, Title One teachers, and parents of boys in grades 3–9 will all benefit greatly from having this book at hand.

In Madison, Wisconsin, Jeremy's friends do not believe him when he tells them he saw a werewolf in the forest.

Robbie Bridgeman and his two friends, Tara and Landon Phillips, are in trouble. When they set out for a day of fishing in Sardis Lake, Mississippi, they're hoping to catch big fish. They'll find one, all right...but this fish is far bigger than they could have ever imagined. The fish that has been lurking in the lake isn't a bass or bluegill or pike. It's a megalodon...a giant, prehistoric shark that is over sixty feet long. And Robbie, Tara and Landon are in a tiny rowboat.

When Danielle's Dad is transferred, the whole family moves into a big creepy house in Sandusky, Ohio, where unbeknownst to them, terror already lived.

After searching the swamp for snakes, Ryan, Stephen, and Heather cannot believe their eyes when they find poisonous pythons in their Pennsylvania swamp.

In Casper, Wyoming, a new waterpark is ready to open. But Wondersplash holds a sinister secret that one one is supposed to know about. A strange and hidden world lies beneath the the park filled with unearthly creatures that those who enter may never return!

"Edgy and often deeply personal, the twenty-one essays collected here come from a wide variety of writers. Some identify as witches, others identify as writers, musicians, game developers, or artists. What they have in common is that they've created personal rituals to summon their own power in a world that would prefer them powerless. Here, they share the rituals they use to resist self-doubt, grief, and depression in the face of sexism, slut shaming, racism, patriarchy, and other systems of oppression"--