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Guys Read: Thriller
Paperback
Series: Guys Read, Book 2
General Juvenile FictionHorror
Publisher Price: $10.99
ISBN13: 9780061963759
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Published: Sep 20 2011
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Ten fast-paced tales of haunted houses, reptile smugglers, and cryptids.
A body on the tracks
A teenage terrorist
A mysterious wish-granting machine
The world's worst private detective
The second volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading is chock-full of mystery, intrigue, and nefarious activity.
Ten original tales send young partners into abandoned storm drains, darkened alleys, and frantic rooftop chases. Gennifer Choldenko traps a father and son inside an exotic reptile ring surrounded by escaping vipers and a loose Komodo dragon.
Bruce Hale leads two curious sixth-graders beneath the streets to rescue a friend from mischievous, torch-bearing Pukwudgies. The anthology delivers a lively assortment of cursed spectacles and uninvited phantoms.
Featuring some of the best writers around, and compiled by certified guy Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Thriller is a pulse-pounding collection of brand-new short stories, each one guaranteed to keep you riveted until the final page.
- Spooky Stories: M. T. Anderson takes a ghost-hunting TV crew to an old Massachusetts estate, where a boy searching for hidden Smitch family gold ends up cornered by furious nineteenth-century spirits.
- Action Adventure: Walter Dean Myers follows fourteen-year-old Abdullah on a high-speed skiff off the Somali coast, facing an armed standoff aboard a captured luxury yacht.
- Unlikely Hero: Anthony Horowitz sends bumbling detective Tim Diamond and his sharp brother Nick onto a North London rooftop to solve a five-million-pound gold coin heist.
- Adventure Stories: Matt de la Peña follows seventh-grader Benny Garcia through Brooklyn as mysterious deliveries begin appearing beneath a stick-figure wish machine taped to his bedroom wall.
- Also by This Author: Guys Read: Funny Business, Guys Read: The Sports Pages and Guys Read: Other Worlds.
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