New Releases by Dan Greenburg

Danny is always late for school. If he''s not stopped by pirates, then zombies chase him. He escapes from trolls only to be cornered by gruff billy goats. Good thing Danny has a quick imagination. He may be late for school, but he does get there! From one ridiculous adventure to the next, readers cheer on Danny as he faces the most extraordinary situations until all of his newfound friends come to school with him. When zombies meet teachers, you can bet there will be a hilarious ending. The droll humor and witty drawings will keep the most reluctant reader turning pages, eager to see what will happen next.

A few days before his school''s Halloween dance, Zack meets a girl who seems to be already wearing her costume.

When Zack is bitten by a tick during a class trip to Central Park he succumbs to Rhyme Disease, which causes him to speak only in rhymes and to float like a helium balloon.

Klatu, Lek, And Ploo finally have a day off from their job as extras on a hit sci-fi TV show. So what should they do around Los Angeles for a day? Go to Dizzyland, of course! The amusement park has everything, from roller-coasters to ferris wheels to funhouses. It even has a small zoo. But when Klatu, Lek, and Ploo look through the zoo, they are shocked to find a fuzzy baby alien, named Mu, all locked up. They have to set Mu free!

Ploo, Lek, and Klatu have escaped from Area 51 and hit the road in a stolen station wagon. Where are they headed? Las Vegas, of course! After all Vegas has everything—slot machines, drive-through wedding chapels, Elvis impersonators. It’s sure to have someone who can fix their slightly beat-up spaceship!

Klatu, Lek, and Ploo head back to Groom Lake to fix their busted spaceship. But the spaceship is gone--it''s been taken to Area 51. There''s nothing for the aliens to do other than sneak in and search for it. Instead they find something they weren''t looking for--the Great Ones! The mythic missing Looglians Org, Murkel, Shemp, and Kurth crashed at Roswell New Mexico in 1947, and have been in the deep freeze ever since. Can our three wacky alien kids rescue them? Dan Greenburg brings his trademark quirkiness and humor to the third book in his newest chapter book series.

KLATU, LEK, AND PLOO just missed their ride home to planet Loogl. The army men from Area 51 scared their spaceship away. So where can they find a place to land a spaceship without causing havoc? Hollywood, of course, on the stage set of a film crew! But when they get there, the three kids are roped into being extras on a new sci-fi TV show. Have Lek, Klatu, and Ploo finally hit the big time? Break out the shades - they''ve gone from seeing stars . . . to being stars!

When Cody is 14, he runs away from home, leaving behind his abusive mother, and flees across the country. He doesn’t stop until he hits Texas and the Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. Under the guidance of Sunny, the ranch’s owner, he cares for the animals in ways he never imagined. He feeds them a diet of raw, bloody meat. He cleans out their cages. He takes them for exercise. He finds out how to get a tiger to back down, and when he should back down himself. But there is another lesson Cody has to learn—sometimes people are harder to handle than tigers.

While trying to convince the FBI that giant ants are kidnapping and enslaving the citizens of Cincinnatti, twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin, with the help of their vampire father, escape the clutches of the enormous ghouls who want to adopt--and eat--them.

Although a paid assassin is stalking Wally while his twin sister Cheyenne is under the power of the queen ont, it is up to Wally and Cheyenne, their vampire dad, and their friends to save the human race from the giant onts. Book #5

The ten-year-old Shluffmuffin twins, still evading the evil, giant ants that tried to adopt them, discover the culinary delights of swamps and encounter a zombie who bears a strange resemblance to their deceased father. Book #2

Having been reunited with their zombie father only to have him turn into a vampire after drinking an experimental elixir of life, the ten-year-old Shluffmuffin twins continue to try to elude the giant ants that want to enslave all humans. Book #3

As the Shluffmuffin twins'' father takes up some unsavory vampire activities, Cheyenne is kidnapped again by the Mandible sisters, leading Wally to come up with a SWAT-team commando plan to bring her back.

When the babies who are being fed on human snot mutate into half-human brats, Hedy Mandible uses her hypnotic control over Cheyenne to force her to teach them proper behavior, while the Jackal initiates another elaborate scheme to assassinate Wally.

Ten-year-old orphan twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin have it bad at Cincinnati''s Jolly Days orphanage, but things get much worse when the Mandible sisters offer to share their home in Dripping Fang Forest.

While visiting Dizzyland near Los Angeles, Klatu, Lek, and Ploo, the three alien siblings from the planet Loogl, find a fuzzy little alien named Mu in the sideshow zoo of the amusement park and decide to set it free.

Followed by an assassin and her poisonous snakes, ten-year-old twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin try to get from their Ohio home to the FBI training facility in Quantico, VA, to get help in freeing human hostages from the onts.

Zack is nervous about the fifth-grade Halloween dance. He doesn''t know how to dance and he doesn''t have a date! When Zack meets Prudence, a beautiful girl who speaks with a funny accent and dresses in old-fashioned clothing, he''s smitten. He thinks he''s found the perfect date for the dance! Prudence is so different from the rest of the kids he knows. She''s actually come from the past-the year 1692 to be exact-and she''s fleeing the Salem witch trials! Will Zack and Prudence even make it to the dance, or will she have to return to the past? Read on to find out!

When Zack and Spencer get the late-night munchies at a sleepover, they curb their hunger with some freeze-dried food that Zack got at the Air & Space Museum. After devouring freeze-dried ice cream and pizza, they come across an extra package of freeze-dried something. When opened and wet, the shriveled mass starts growing, and growing and growing! How will the boys stop an out-of-control blob from eating everything in sight before it''s too late? Illustrated by Jack E. Davis.

Zack''s classmate Andrew Clancy is always bragging. Everyone knows he''s a big liar. But suddenly, Andrew is having trouble hiding the fact that he isn''t telling the truth, and every time he tells another whopper, his butt grows bigger-will it ever stop?

The Zack Files #28.

Zack''s new substitute teacher seems kind of odd. And she is rather hairy. And get this, her name is Mrs. Wolfowitz! But is she really a werewolf? Or just one very weird lady who happens to like the taste of homework papers? Read on to find out!

Mummies are cool, but they’re creepy, too! Zack has faced aliens, vampires, time-travelers, ghosts, and Bigfoot—now find out what happens when he meets teenage mummy Ikhnaton (Icky for short).

The Zack Files #26.

It seems like a regular field trip to a natural history museum—until Zack gets locked inside for the night and discovers what really goes on in those display cases when no one is watching. A tribe of curious Neanderthals, rampaging woolly mammoths, prehistoric food shortages . . . it’s just another wild adventure for Zack!

The Zack Files #29.

Is two too much? That''s what Max Silver is about to find out. Because his sister, Tiffany, is the newest superhero flying through the sky ...

The Zack Files #24.