Books with author CJ Carroll

The humorous adventures of four middle-school friends learning life-lessons.Jo and the School's Out Squad discover friendship in their first adventure, The Raspberry Race, Jo gets schooled about being honest, but her biggest lesson is about human nature.When 6th grader Jo Daniels gets into trouble for eating raspberries from her neighbor's bush, she gets help from her friends Betsy, Tommy and Leonard, and discovers her neighbor isn't who she thought she was after all.This middle-school chapter book is filled with adventure and fun for children aged 9-12.Hi! My name's Jo Daniels. I like to ride bikes, skateboard, and read! My favorite books are mystery books. Sometimes I like to solve mysteries! But don't tell my dad. I promised I wouldn't "get into any more questionable shenanigans." So I"m stickin' to plain, ol' shenanigans. Join me in a few! I'll tell you all about them in my next story, "The Mystery of the Blue Dog." --Jo

The humorous adventures of four middle-school friends learning life-lessons.Jo and the School’s Out Squad discover friendship in their first adventure, The Raspberry Race, Jo gets schooled about being honest, but her biggest lesson is about human nature.When 6th grader Jo Daniels gets into trouble for eating raspberries from her neighbor’s bush, she gets help from her friends Betsy, Tommy and Leonard, and discovers her neighbor isn’t who she thought she was after all.This middle-school chapter book is filled with adventure and fun for children aged 9-12.Hi! My name’s Jo Daniels. I like to ride bikes, skateboard, and read! My favorite books are mystery books. Sometimes I like to solve mysteries! But don’t tell my dad. I promised I wouldn’t “get into any more questionable shenanigans.” So I”m stickin’ to plain, ol’ shenanigans. Join me in a few! I’ll tell you all about them in my next story, “The Mystery of the Blue Dog.”—Jo

Excerpt from Memory Sketches Mrs. Buckley - Jammie's wife at the east side of Dan ahar road - made herself more snug under her gray shawl after this brief eulogy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dusty is a spunky cat imitating the behavior of others he sees from his window. At first he wants to be an attack cat, attacking animals and people who come into his garden. He discovers that no one likes him when his behavior is unacceptable. Dusty learns that good deeds get rewarded and he becomes likeable. Lastly, when he sees a dog on a fire-engine truck, he wants to be a fire-engine CAT. Dusty is an excellent model for young children. He learns no one likes unacceptable behavior and he becomes likeable when he does good things. Also, wanting to be something other than yourself can be non-ending.