Cranston Public Library

"Pepper, Boo, and the Cat celebrate a special day with big and small things, cat and dog things, as well as inside and outside things"--

Old Jago is tucked away in the East End of London, conveniently placed so the wealthy and the fortunate can forget all about it and its unlucky residents. Dicky Perott does not have the luxury of forgetting about the ugly truth of Old Jago, because he and his family barely can afford the single-room home they live in, fighting off robbers, fleas, and the cold. Though he is just a young boy, Dicky already dreams of the day he can leave the slum forever,...

"When Aubrey gets to the cafeteria for lunch she finds that there is a strange new cook, with a kitchen full of glowing bottles, and a big black pot full of mashed potatoes, so when all the children fall under a dish-washing spell it is obvious to Aubrey that their new lunch lady is a witch--or has Aubrey fallen asleep during science class and dreamed it all?" --

"When Scott wakes up with a small bite on his arm, he blames his dog--until he finds himself invited to join a game of pick-up basketball under the full moon by a group of werewolves." --

Twins Nico and Letta are ready for the big science fair. Their volcano is going to blow the competition away! But will a strange new scientist ruin their entire project?

When a substitute teacher turns up in Joey and Johnny's class, the boys quickly decide that she is a swamp creature, and after school they set out to prove it; they follow her home to the swamp--but Mrs. Gilman is not the only one living in the swamp, and if they are not careful the boys may find themselves on the dinner menu.

Includes discussion questions and writing prompts.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction...

"George's new dog is obsessed with the cemetery, but one night on their walk he digs up an arm bone--and the previous owner follows George home." --

Athena, Gia, and their mothers are camping at the Skull Valley Campground making smores when a talking bat gets tangled in Gia's hair, and two pale and spooky strangers appear out of nowhere--but these vampires are looking for something sweeter than blood.