Books with author J. P. Walker

A collection of three Howler stories! In "The Door," Xander's parents love redecorating their house, especially with antiques. But they go too far when the local haunted house is torn down and they rescue the front door.In "The Force Spell," Hugh is really disappointed in his birthday celebration. His father shows up late — again — and then gives Hugh the wrong magic book. When Hugh finds a handwritten recipe for a spell that makes people do whatever you want, he thinks it's a joke. Then he decides to try it out.In "The Squatter," Charlene is furious when someone breaks into her treehouse and wrecks it. She suspects her next-door enemy and sets out to catch him in the act. She lays a trap … but she catches something entirely different.These stories also appear in the Howlers Treasury "Scary Stories for Insomniac Children". Great for reluctant readers or read-aloud fun.

Jamie always knew that his Grandad was special. How special came to light one day when Grandad and Jamie were alone. Grandad received a call from a secret international organisation (International High Council for the Investigation of Unusual Phenomena or I.H.C.I.U.P.) of which Grandad was a senior member. Jamie found himself being whisked away to New York on board a very special rocket ship which travels at speeds of several thousand miles an hour. It lands on a skyscraper rooftop and Jamie is then taken to the HQ of IHCIUP. A large structure which floats in the sky (Cloud Base) Jamie and his Grandad attend an extraordinary meeting of different nationalities. They learn of the escape of the last living Dragon. (Held in China). During the Dragons escape, he steals a special stone from Japan and then flies off to his ancient hideout in the Black Mountains of Western Europe. Grandad and a small team are tasked with the responsibility to return the Stone and the Dragon to captivity. They fly off, Jamie is accidentally stowed aboard with them (along with a small scruffy dog, Scamp).There follows a series of events which tests all members of the team and introduces Jamie to the strange, wonderful but sometimes deadly world of the mythological and the fantastic. This is the first in a series of adventure books featuring Jamie a boy who learns that the world is a very different one than what we learn in the 'conventional' world.

A collection of three Howler stories! In "Camp Sucks," Marco's been warned his whole life to avoid the sun and take his special vitamins twice a day. At summer camp, a bully named Derek helps him find out why.In "X-Ray Eyes," Brad's new contacts are a little more powerful than he expected.In "Shh, You'll Wake the Baby," Steve wakes up in the middle of the night to a blue glow outside and a laser sweeping his room. The next morning, there's a new baby in the house — a very strange baby.These stories also appear in the Howlers Treasury "Scary Stories for Insomniac Children". Great for reluctant readers or read-aloud.

Meet Romar Jones, 15½, basketball player with months to go before the next season and no one who cares about him since Granny died. His dad’s been dead for two years.When his 9th grade language arts teacher says pay attention to the poetry unit or take a hike, Romar opts for the hike, leaves Roseburg, Oregon, and embarks on a journey to find his mother. He knows she’s in prison in Washington. He shrugs on his dad’s trail-guide backpack and sets out, heading first to the coast to leave some of Granny’s ashes.Within minutes of his first footsteps on an ocean beach, he encounters a derelict man he dubs Meth Mouth. Five days after leaving school he stops at Vesta’s by the Sea near Yachats. Could have been good luck. Could have been Granny steered him there and had a hand in all that happened after.

A collection of three Howler stories! In "The Costume Shop," Logan and Dewey visit a pop-up Halloween store and make an old woman dressed as a gypsy very angry.In "Pink Doughnuts," a meteorite lands outside of town, a new doughnut shop opens, and suddenly everyone starts acting really strange.In "Moulder and Skully," zombie FBI agents are hunting for the last human boy in town — and he's on the run.These stories also appear in the Howlers Treasury "Scary Stories for Insomniac Children". Great for reluctant readers or read-aloud.

Excerpt from The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Whole Language Is Arranged According to Its Terminations; With a Copious Introduction to the Various Uses of the Work, and an Index of Allowable RhymesIn the Bible, the most ancient of records, we find man, at a very early period, forming both wind and stringed instruments, modulating his speech into verse, and exhibiting in the very earliest instance on record that peculiar parallelism that characterised the Hebrew poetry of all subsequent ages.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.

On the first day of school, as soon as the teachers find out that Nick is another Pearson boy, they go from nice to nasty. By lunchtime, one missing yellow notebook, a brand new baseball cap, animals running around the hallway, and a flooded boys bathroom forces Nick into the spotlight. After telling the truth to his best friend, Chris, Nick begins to wonder if he should come clean to the principal and the rest of the school to clear his name or remain the baddest kid in sixth grade. The Baddest Kid in Sixth Grade encourages literacy by using multi-syllable words that are broken down phonetically with bold and un-­bold font. As young readers become familiar with the repetitive words their confidence grows.

Tina and TJ are high school sweethearts that have been reunited as adults. TJ has become a part of a close knit group of friends who call themselves "the circle." Tina loves TJ, but she hates being a part of the circle and wants desperately to build a life with TJ outside of it. The circle is at every turn trying to make sure that TJ and Tina stay in the circle, after all TJ started the circle and he can't leave them now. Tina struggles to claim her independence from the circle and learns to be free from all the things that the circle represents. But will she and TJ be able to endure through her journey to be free?