Books with author J. M. Bailey

YOUNG COVER edition. Features wide spacing for easier reading.Clara Days has just started high school and is about to embark on the adventure of her life. After joining a science program, she'll learn to fly a gravity defying flying machine, fall in love for the very first time, and uncover a horrible little secret. A surly professor is apparently plotting evil and it's up to Clara and her friends to use their investigative skills to prevent a crime before it happens. In the meantime, Clara will need to work with her scientist uncle to save the NIFTI science centre from financial ruin, deal with the school bully, and learn to understand her new stepmother. It certainly isn't easy being thirteen years old ...

Notebook with 154 lined, wide-ruled pages in ivory 6 x 9 inches. Perfect notebook to fit most anywhere. This is a really nice notebook that has many uses. You could use it to keep track of medical records for your sphynx cat or as a notebook to keep track of your computer passwords, or use it as an address book or a book to jot down notes or your shopping list or a to do list. The artwork on the front is a photo of my son's sphynx kitty named John Todd. He is a wonderful cat.

Excerpt from They All Do It; Or Mr. Miggs of Danbury and His Neighbors: Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important; Together With a Full Account of Stirring Events in the Neighborhood in the IntervalsThe contents of the first book were almost entirely selected from the issues of The News in the year immediately preceding, and many of the articles were fresh in the mind of the general reader. This was dreadfully unpleasant 5 but it was unavoidable. Again the volume was largely composed of short paragraphs, which may have been good enough in their way, but, from their brevity, made the reading a trifle hummocky, and tended somewhat to mar the symmetry of the plot.I like to see the plot of a book all right, even if the binding is a little lame.The selections for this volume cover a period of four years. From the abundance of material in that time furnished, a careful and conscientious choice has been made. It is a compilation pf sketches and essays with out paragraphs and, from beginning to end, not one of its fair pages is sullied by _a pun.It is just such a book as I have often awaked in the night and wished the other had been, but which was.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from They All Do It; Or Mr. Miggs of Danbury and His Neighbors: Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important; Together With a Full Account of Stirring Events in the Neighborhood in the IntervalsThe contents of the first book were almost entirely selected from the issues of The News in the year immediately preceding, and many of the articles were fresh in the mind of the general reader. This was dreadfully unpleasant 5 but it was unavoidable. Again the volume was largely composed of short paragraphs, which may have been good enough in their way, but, from their brevity, made the reading a trifle hummocky, and tended somewhat to mar the symmetry of the plot.I like to see the plot of a book all right, even if the binding is a little lame.The selections for this volume cover a period of four years. From the abundance of material in that time furnished, a careful and conscientious choice has been made. It is a compilation pf sketches and essays with out paragraphs and, from beginning to end, not one of its fair pages is sullied by _a pun.It is just such a book as I have often awaked in the night and wished the other had been, but which was.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from The Danbury Boom: With a Full Account of Mrs. Cobleigh's Action Therein!; Together With Many Other Interesting Phases in the Social and Domestic History of That Remarkable VillageThe chief (and perhaps the only) advantage of a preface is that an author can talk therein pretty much as he pleases, as there is no one to hear him. Should prefaces ever be read, then they will lose their delightful charm of seclusion, and become so much like the rest of the volume as to be either dropped altogether or incorporated with the body of the work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Clara Days' story begins with a bang, quite literally, when a ball flies straight into her face, thrown by the nastiest girl in school, the horrible Shantilda Squalimore. Who could have imagined that this simple act of vindictiveness could set off a chain of events that would lead Clara and her friends to uncover the apparently evil plot of a sinister, brooding, odd, and extremely surly professor? If only that ball hadn’t landed in Clara’s face, then the teacher wouldn’t have called out a detention for the nasty Miss Squalimore. She in turn sought revenge, that caused Clara’s wet shoes, that caused her to wear ill-fitting boots, that caused a delay, that caused her to see an amazing sight, that caused her curiosity, that motivated her to join the science cadets, that ultimately led to her shocking discovery about the surly professor. Then life and death decisions needed to be made. You get the idea. Once a pebble is thrown into the water, there’s no stopping the ripple effect, and where it will take you. And when you’re in deep water, there’s no getting out without a struggle.However, it’s not all fun and games for Clara and her cronies, as I’d have you believe. There’s some serious stuff that needs to be done too. Clara must learn to fly an anti-gravity flying machine, get the better of the Rex, the science centre’s nosy security guard, and his team of floating, spying robots, and if that’s not enough, toss in a scientific ghost, a prophetic dream or two, and a multitude of mysteries that surface along the way. What is Clara’s new stepmother keeping secret from everyone, and why is she being stalked by a weird ageing couple? Will Uncle Bob ever live down his disastrous and embarrassing wardrobe malfunction that made headlines? Will Clara ever win the heart of that gorgeous, kind young man she met at science cadets? Will Clara be able to save the day and stop the science centre from closing down for good? And why, oh why, is Shantilda just so nasty to everyone? Will she ever learn to be nice? And I almost forgot to ask, just what made that professor so surly in the first place? Are you out of breath yet? Poor Clara. It certainly isn’t easy being thirteen years old.

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