The Weird Zone

The Weird Zone

Author: Tony Abbott

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1504054741

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Think your town is weird? Step into Grover’s Mill—known to the local kids as the “Weird Zone”—from the award-winning author of the Secrets of Droon series. There’s no place like home. Seriously, there’s no place like the bizarre town of Grover’s Mill, home to friends Liz, Holly, Sean, Jeff, and Mike—but also to aliens, monsters, dinosaurs, giant robots, and a potato capable of mind control. It could have something to do with the location—in the middle of a triangle containing a secret UFO testing base, a dinosaur burial ground, and a cheesy horror movie studio. Whatever the reason, enter at your own risk . . . Zombie Surf Commandos from Mars!: When disgusting alien zombies start rising from the lake, Holly, Liz, and Jeff must escape—or their brains will become an afternoon snack. The Incredible Shrinking Kid!: After a blast of purple light zaps Holly’s brother, Sean—shrinking him to four inches—the friends need to make sure he doesn’t end up in an evil toy-store owner’s collection. The Beast from Beneath the Cafeteria!: Liz and her friends battle a dinosaur with a craving for junk food—and an appetite for destruction. Attack of the Alien Mole Invaders!: Not to make a mountain out of a molehill—but a colony of giant moles from outer space has tunneled under Grover’s Mill. With the help of a secret government invention, Jeff and Holly must stop them in their tracks. The Brain That Wouldn’t Obey!: Mike is sure he’s going to win the school science fair with his potato-powered radio, “Potadio.” But when his invention is electrocuted to life and takes over the minds of the teachers and students, it’s boy vs. spud. Gigantopus from Planet X!: When Sean and Holly must battle a gigantic robot octopus controlled by an evil alien, it sucks big-time. Cosmic Boy Versus Mezmo Head!: After an alien blasts Jeff with an X-ray on his way to audition for his school’s outer space version of The Wizard of Oz, his favorite childhood toy, a Cosmic Boy space helmet, gets stuck on his head. The space invader has his own mind-controlling Mezmo head helmet, and now the two will butt heads . . . or, uh, helmets. Revenge of the Tiki Men!: There’s no time to lounge around—huge Tiki heads with a grudge against Grover’s Mill are turning the town back into a jungle. It’s up to the kids to fend off a total disaster.


The Beast from Beneath the Cafeteria!

The Beast from Beneath the Cafeteria!

Author: Tony Abbott

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1480486531

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Liz and her friends battle a prehistoric dinosaur with a craving for junk food Everyone knows W. Reid Elementary has the grossest lunches—and the strangest problems. When piles of junk food start disappearing from the school’s cellar, Liz Duffey and her friends brush it off as another unexplainable mystery of life in the Weird Zone—their nickname for the zany town of Grover’s Mill. But when a scaly beast bursts out from underneath the cafeteria, they realize that what they thought was a mystery is a real monster with major hunger pangs! The kids must stop the creature from eating their entire school—and everyone in it. Is there anything this animal won’t eat? Liz has an idea, but she may not have time to put her plan into action before becoming a meal herself!


Zombie Surf Commandos from Mars!

Zombie Surf Commandos from Mars!

Author: Tony Abbott

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780590674331

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Visiting the beach at Lake Lake, Liz, Jeff, and Holly are forced to save the world when a huge tidal wave sweeps a band of gray, flaking alien zombies to the shore.


Attack of the Alien Mole Invaders!

Attack of the Alien Mole Invaders!

Author: Tony Abbott

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 148048654X

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Aliens are literally popping out of the ground, but luckily, Jeff and Holly have a few tricks up their sleeves Jeff Ryan and his friends want to play street hockey, but someone has stolen their puck. When the kids try to get it back, they discover the culprit is a giant mole from space. A colony of aliens has tunneled under Grover’s Mill, and they want to take over the town by killing the humans—starting with Jeff’s friends! With the help of a secret government invention, Jeff and Holly race to rescue the captives and defend their turf before the moles attack. But will they be too late to save the day?


Weird Zone

Weird Zone

Author: Maria Birmingham

Publisher: Owlkids

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781926973609

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Looks at some of the stranger sports played around the world, including skyaking, slamball, shovel racing, street luging, and underwater wrestling.


The Incredible Shrinking Kid!

The Incredible Shrinking Kid!

Author: Tony Abbott

Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780590674348

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Welcome to the Weird Zone! Sean Vickers feels a little strange. He feels a little smaller than yesterday. Could he be shrinking? YES!!!


Weird Florida

Weird Florida

Author: Charlie Carlson

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0760759456

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A guide to visiting the odd and less known tourist attractions in the state of Florida.


The American Weird

The American Weird

Author: Julius Greve

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1350141216

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Hitherto classified as a form of genre fiction, or as a particular aesthetic quality of literature by H. P. Lovecraft, the weird has now come to refer to a broad spectrum of artistic practices and expressions including fiction, film, television, photography, music, and visual and performance art. Largely under-theorized so far, The American Weird brings together perspectives from literary, cultural, media and film studies, and from philosophy, to provide a thorough exploration of the weird mode. Separated into two sections – the first exploring the concept of the weird and the second how it is applied through various media – this book generates new approaches to fundamental questions: Can the weird be conceptualized as a generic category, as an aesthetic mode or as an epistemological position? May the weird be thought through in similar ways to what Sianne Ngai calls the zany, the cute, and the interesting? What are the transformations it has undergone aesthetically and politically since its inception in the early twentieth century? Which strands of contemporary critical theory and philosophy have engaged in a dialogue with the discourses of and on the weird? And what is specifically “American” about this aesthetic mode? As the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the weird, this book not only explores the writings of Lovecraft, Caitlín Kiernan, China Miéville, and Jeff VanderMeer, but also the graphic novels of Alan Moore, the music of Captain Beefheart, the television show Twin Peaks and the films of Lily Amirpour, Matthew Barney, David Lynch, and Jordan Peele.


Weird IR

Weird IR

Author: David Bell Mislan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-19

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 3319755560

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​The scholarly study of international relations tends to go over the same cases, issues, and themes. This book addresses this by challenging readers to think creatively about international politics. It highlights some of the strangest and rarest phenomena in diplomacy and world politics. Comprised of a series of vignettes and organized by common themes like nonsensical borders, quasi-countries, and diplomatic taboos, Weird IR encourages readers to think critically about the discipline without losing one's sense of humor completely.