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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!

When Zack''s friend Spencer brings a 60''s-style hippie book on astral travel to a sleepover, Zack learns the ins and outs of out-of-body travel in a snap. Getting out of their bodies seems awfully easy for the boys. The problem is, how do they get back in?!

Zack''s first trip to sleep-away camp gets a little hairy when legends of a mysterious creature lurking in the woods turn out to be more than just campfire tales. Is it the missing link? Yeti? Sasquatch? Bigfoot?

The author''s memoirs as a skeptic investigating the paranormal and the history of occultism. "This book is the delightful, irreverent, often spooky record of his discoveries."-back flap.

Who''d have thought mind reading could be such a pain? I mean, I expected to discover everyone''s silly secrets. But someone is planning something very strange--and it''s no joke!

The Zooming in on girls'' favorite topic--boys--this follow-up to "Who Are You Really?" features 25 great quizzes plus fun sidebars on compatible star signs, love lore, and other romantic treats, and is loaded with insight on the ins and outs of dating.

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.

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.

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!

I went to visit my Grandma Leah in Chicago, and we went to a White Sox game. Doesn’t sound like such a big deal, right? Well, here’s the thing—Grandma played in the game!

The Zack Files #16.

Late one night when Zack hears strains of "Heartbreak Hotel" coming from the fridge, he discovers the possibility that Elvis lives on...as a turnip! Talk about getting back to musical roots!

Strange things just won''t stop happening to Zack! One more out-of-this-world adventures join this funny series about a 10 year old who''s prone to paranormal problems. Zack enters a horror film fan contest, and he and his best friend win an evening with Mella Bugosi, an aging horror film star with a Transylvanian accent. It''s not long before Zack notices Mella has some pretty odd habits: he avoids sunlight at all costs, he sleeps in a coffin, and...Zack hopes that''s V-8 he''s drinking! Could good old Mella be an actual vampire?

"My clone looks like me. My clone talks like me. He helps me with my homework and takes care of my bullies. And he could be the answer to all my problems. Or he could be my biggest one yet!

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.

One minute, it was an Egyptian cat stature. The next, it was real, live cat with sharp claws. And I have the scratch to prove it! This was one trip to the museum I would never forget.

After the Mandible sisters kidnap his sister Cheyenne, Wally seeks the help of a group of orphans and his vampire father.

What I wanted was a cute little kitten. Instead, I got a tough tomcat that talks. And that''s not all! He says he''s my Great-Grandpa Julius and he needs my help. And messy litter box or not, family is family!

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.

Klatu is such a varna! He crashed the spaceship into planet Earth with his brother Lek and sister Ploo onboard. Stuck in the middle of the Nevada desert with nowhere to run, Ploo is captured by army Earthlings who think that she is an enemy of humankind. Can Klatu and Lek to rescue Ploo from the terrifying Major Paine? Or will Ploo be held prisoner in Area 51 forever?

What would you do if your fortune cookie fortunes started coming true? Confucius says something very weird is going on! Could his thirteenth adventure be Zack''s unlucky number?

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).

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!

Forget about the Y2K problem! Zack''s up to his ears in dragons and wizards when a computer glitch sends him hurtling back in time to the year 999--and a peculiar boys'' school known as Dragon Slayers'' Academy!

Zack isn''t thrilled about having to get a tooth pulled, but a trip to the orthodontist proves a lot hairier than he ever expected. Nice old Dr. Silver has been replaced by the fang- toothed Dr. Jekyll, a mouthwash-guzzling mad scientist whose secret experiments have gone ker-plewy!

During a seance, spirit of Queen Victoria moves into Zack''s body.

When Zack and his dad come upon an alien whose spacecraft is running on empty in Central Park, it''s easy enough to find more fuel. (Mayonnaise!) But retrieving the abandoned spaceship from the NYPD is quite a different story!

Uh-oh! Thanks to a heaping helping of a new dietetic sugar substitute, Zack shrinks down to the size of a bug. It''s not all that bad--until he discovers an army of ants who are building an ant pyramid for their despotic pharaoh-queen!

Zack bought a dinosaur egg at a flea market and it was not to go in a microwave.

My room is a mess. Now, usually this is not big news. But my clothes have started moving...when I''m not inside them. And the TV is floating across the room! Guess what! I''m sharing my room with a ghost named Wanda.

When Zack is given the chance to swim with dolphins on a trip to Florida, he dives right in. But before long, Zack is surprised to find that the dolphins are trying to tell him something ? and even more surprised that he can understand and talk to them! There''s definitely something fishy going on here! Could it be genuine animal communication? And can Zack and his new friends get their signals straight and salvage an old sunken ship filled with treasure?

In this updated and revised edition of How to Make Yourself Miserable, Dan Greenburg and Marcia Jacobs walk readers through every phase of self-torture and humiliation imaginable, bringing them through the twentieth century feeling more miserable, guilty, and worried than ever!