Author: Martin Smith Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781987617115 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Beware the pumpkins. Beware the code. Or else. Halloween is the scariest night of the year - but this time, the evil is real. You are the only one to discover the terrible secret. What would you do?They have spent a year plotting.They are hungry.They are coming.And they will not stop.Teenager Artie Eason accidentally stumbles over a dastardly plot to steal kids using the Pumpkin Code on the dark October night.He soon realises - danger lurks behind every door. Can he save his friends and family before it is too late? The Pumpkin Code is the new children's book from Martin Smith, bestselling author of the Football Boy Wonder and the Charlie Fry Series.Each of Martin's stories contains strong moral messages - and this young adult horror book looks at stranger danger, loyalty to your friends, and why you should never, ever give up.Oh, and never trust a goblin either.Praise for Martin's work:"I got this book to encourage my eight-year-old to read more. He lacked motivation before this. All I can say is thank you so much!""We love the storyline because it captivates our son's imagination and encourages him to read. Would recommend to anyone with a reluctant reader ... it's certainly done the job in our household. Charlie Fry has even been our son's World Book Day choice!""There are quite a few football books for young children but I've found them to be so badly written and not something that I've taken great pleasure in reading to my children. This is different; we were all captivated in the first chapter and that, I think, has a lot to do with the quality of the writing style."Who will the Pumpkin Code appeal to?It has been written as a scary story for children and young adults. The age range is (roughly) 10 to 14.The age range is older than Martin's previous work - primarily because the Pumpkin Code focuses on the issue of stranger danger for older children.People looking for books similar to The Ghost Files and The Creakers may want to give this a read.
Author: Charles Day Publisher: Month9Books, LLC. ISBN: 1945107502 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 199
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As the townsfolk sleep, something creeps into the neighborhood. Hidden in the shadows, its presence is as old as time itself, its intent not born of goodness. Nick, a teenager who fancies himself a detective, wakes to find his carved masterpiece missing. Now a mystery is afoot and Nick has his first assignment, to find out who or what is snatching up the town's pumpkins and why. Unfortunately, as with all great detectives, obstacles stand in Nick's way—the neighborhood bully and his cronies and the strange old lady and her dog who share the run-down house at the end of Nick's block. As Nick investigates, an urban legend unravels . . . the legend of the Pumpkin Thief. Nick fears the legend as he embarks on the most dangerous adventure of his young life. Collecting clues, getting ever closer to the true nature of evil, he learns that curiosity comes with a high price.
Author: Cathleen Young Publisher: Yearling ISBN: 1524767360 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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"Cathleen Young's characters will forever have a place in my heart." --Holly Goldberg Sloan, author of Counting by 7s Former best friends compete to see who can grow the biggest pumpkin and win the annual giant pumpkin race on the lake. A great pick for fans of Half a Chance and Gertie's Leap to Greatness. At the end of every summer, Madeline Island hosts its famous pumpkin race. All summer, adults and kids across the island grow giant, thousand-pound pumpkins, then hollow one out and paddle in it across the lake to the cheers of the entire town. Twelve-year-old Billie loves to win; she has a bulletin board overflowing with first-prize ribbons. Her best friend Sam doesn't care much about winning, or at least Billie didn't think so until last summer's race, when his pumpkin crashed into hers as she was about to cross the finish line and he won. This summer, Billie is determined to get revenge by growing the best and biggest pumpkin and beating Sam in the race. It's a tricky science to grow pumpkins, since weather, bugs, and critters can wipe out a crop. Then a surprise visit from a long-lost relative shakes things up, and Billie begins to see her family, and her bond with Sam, in a new way.
Author: Dave Horowitz Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1524740845 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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Perfect for the changing seasons, this wacky twist on The Ugly Duckling is a great read for Halloween and Thanksgiving. The Ugly Pumpkin has waited all through October for someone to take him home, but no one wants him. He doesn't look like other pumpkins. So the lonely Ugly Pumpkin leaves the patch in search of a place where he'll fit in. By the time Thanksgiving arrives, he discovers the truth about who he is--but it's not what he expected!
Author: Elmer Kelton Publisher: Forge Books ISBN: 1429932457 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farmboys, almost more trouble than they were worth. When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry. And when luck finally sets him on a cattle drive to Kansas, Trey learns the trade from veteran drover Ivan Kerbow, but he also learns the code of violence and death from outlaw Jarrett Longacre, a man who will plague his life at every turn. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Holly Weane Publisher: Flowerpot Holiday ISBN: 9781486716739 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Join five adorable little pumpkins on their romp through their neighborhood in this silly rhyming story that celebrates all that is fun about Halloween: great friends, costumes, neighbors--and candy!
Author: Gail Gibbons Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group ISBN: 1430130520 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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"Narrator Polly Collier is very good. Her strong, clear voice makes her sound much like a teacher, and I appreciated her explanation to young listeners that she would be reading the text portion of a picture book...It's a wonderful book, full of interesting trivia..." - AudioFile
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