Books with author Tad carpenter

Fifteen year old Josey is a liar. She'd like to stop. But after Mom left, the lies started popping out, like the time Josey left her little brother at the library and told Dad he'd run away.Then Josey meets a boy who tells bigger whoppers than she does. He says he's the son of a privateer who's been dead two centuries. He's so convincing Josey's brother believes every word and sets off to find the privateer's hidden treasure.When her brother disappears, Josey is sure she knows where he's gone. But everyone thinks she's lying again. Everyone, that is, except the so-called privateer's son. He knows she's telling the truth because jeweled riches are only part of his tale. There's also the snooperscope, a device that makes time leaps possible, like the one that brought him to the present.The story is fantastical...and yet Josey will do anything to save her brother--including traveling back in time two hundred years with a boy she can't trust.

A swarm of flies try to survive an incredible and hazardous journey through a neighbourhood. Along the way, they come up with a cunning plan to avoid being eaten by a flock of birds, there is a scary and fateful meeting with three wicked spiders (a fortune teller, an acupuncturist and a bearded lady) that trick and lure them into their webs.A kaleidoscopic butterfly uses her artistic skills in an extraordinary way to help a friend find his way through the dangerous woods, and she gets involved in a tug of war with a hairy, scary creature when trying to rescue two flies from its clutches.The swarm try to cross a motorway, some make itâ€]some don't, and they devise an ingenious way of swimming across a boating lake. A deadly mist leads to a fly showing off its impressive dancing skills, and Stinky and His Mate enjoy the wonderful pleasures that only a toilet can offer before they fly off into the sunsetâ€]or do they?

Megan is a 13-year-old teenage girl, who realises that she has psychic powers that others do not have. At first, she tried to talk to her mother about them, but with disasterous consequences, so she learned to keep quiet about them. However, some people did offer to help and an animal showed a special friendship, but they were not 'alive' in the normal sense of the word. They had passed on. Megan has three such friends: Wacinhinsha, her Spirit Guide, who had been Sioux in his last life on Earth; her maternal grandfather, Gramps and a huge Siberian tiger called Grrr. Wacinhinsha is extremely knowledgeable in all things spiritual, psychic and paranormal; her grandfather is a novice 'dead person' and Grrr can only speak Tiger, as one might imagine and most of that, of course is unintelligible to humans. In this episode in Megan's life, she and the rest of the pupils in her year at school are taken on a school outing. These should be annual events, but the school does not always have the money to finance them. This one turns out to be exceptional for Megan as she catches a glimpse into the lives of people who lived in an era long since past. Follow Megan as she tries to learn more from her school outing into the past and read the advice that her Spirit Guide gives her on how to best do that. See inside for details about Megan's other adventures to date.

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“Told in jaunty, rollicking rhymes that are enlivened by colorful, humorous digital illustrations, this robot version of a bedtime story demonstrates that, no matter how energetic a little ‘bot’ may be, there inevitably comes a time when ‘batteries are running low!’” —Kirkus Reviews A little robot would rather go on an intergalactic adventure than go to sleep in this rhyming romp that breaks all the bedtime rules.In a busy robot town bots begin to power down. All except for Bitty Bot! Feeling sleepy? Maybe not! Charming text in rhyming verse tells the story of energetic Bitty Bot, who, instead of going to bed decides to build a rocket and go on a space adventure! Sweet and fun to read aloud, this bedtime book is perfect for tots and bots of all varieties.