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- Previous edition's ISBN 0741412470 - Middle school and high school teachers have found that Community Spirits reads very well orally. - Editor: Bonnie Hearn Hill. Cover: Barbara Hodge. Design: Joaquin Peralta.
Experiencing a headache, teen detective Joseph O. Kuhl is accosted in Balona Park by a beautiful floating apparition who tasks him to investigate spectral happenings in town. Joe and Cousin Zack experience a variety of more or less weird occurrences, including smiling orbs, ravenous ghosts, explosions, and hazardous ascents of the town water tower.
- Previous edition's ISBN: 0-74141-127-X - Author's disclaimer: Not a recipe book, but The Chocolate Korndog might cause some comment as a novel possibility for an adventuresome pastry chef.
- Nobody's Fault is the only extant historical fiction for young adults featuring the Great Quake of 1906. Addresses date abuse, elder abuse, and intergenerational issues. - Nobody's Fault employs vocabulary expected on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. - 2006 will likely be another "earthquake year" because the West Coast will inevitably continue to be at risk for great quakes, sooner rather than.
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Upper-teen journalist Patella Sackworth is desperate to publish her poems so, when a mysterious publisher (visible only at night) comes to town, Patella rushes to provide poems and money. But townsfolk soon are taken with The Pales, sores on their necks, diminished bank accounts. Perhaps there's more to this publisher than meets the eye.
A sixteen-year old boy is trapped in summer school dullness and begins to daydream about things he would like.
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A chaming English butler or perhaps he is a spy escaping assassins, finds himself in foggy Balona, CA 95232. Taking rooms with an elderly widow, he is soon a popular member of the small town's elite, quickly being invited to social club membership, becoming a candidate for municipal office, and investing in the local sausage-making company. Townsfolk now begin to disappear and the flavor of the local korndog assumes an unusual piquancy. The author terms this story "cosy horror."
Thirteen-year-old John-Browne "Jack" Ordway is beginning the eighth grade at Balona Junior High. He is close to his parents and his grandparents, and is bright, athletic, musically talented, and has friends who admire him. Life should be good for Jack, but there are clouds on the horizon.