"Nothing can scare me!" shouts Ralph -- not even a creaky, old haunted house on Halloween. Ralph wanders through the monster mansion and unbolts Frankenstien's head, grosses out a ghoul, and drinks a vampire's mug o'blood. But the fright-fest isn't over just yet... Ralph's friend Sarah has saved the best spine-tingler for last. Peel back the flaps in this spooktacular gatefold book to see all of Rotten Ralph's hilarious Halloween tricks!
Sarah, who simply adores Rotten Ralph, endures his atrocious behavior as he mocks her ballet practice, terrorizes her mother's birds, and saws the limb from a tree she is sitting on.
Rotten Ralph's owner, Sarah, is fed up with her red rascal's behavior. Ralph is tired of Sarah trying to change him. He misses his cat family, which never made him alter a thing about himself. But in this gag- and guffaw-filled adventure for newly independent readers, the world's favorite rotten red cat gets tripped up when he runs away for a journey down memory lane.
This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal–winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania. After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the town's founder, twelve-year-old Jack will soon find himself launched on a mission that takes him hundreds of miles away, escorting his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on her relentless pursuit of the oddest of outlaws. But as their trip turns south in more ways than one, it's increasingly clear that the farther from home they travel, the more off-the-wall Jack and Miss Volker's adventure becomes, in From Norvelt to Nowhere, a raucous road novel about roots and revenge, a last chance at love, and the power of a remarkable friendship. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013