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Books in Big Chapter Books series

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Big Date

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, March 3, 1998)
    Ronald Grizzington III, the rich new cub in town, wants to date Bonnie Brown, but Bonnie isn't sure she likes the stuck-up cub. Brother Bear is sure -- sure that he's not wild about any cub who wants to date Bonnie. Can Bonnie's heart be won by fancy restaurants and expensive gifts? Can Brother control his jealousy? Will the Big Date turn into the Big Disaster? Tune in to Bear Country to find out.
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  • The Berenstain Bears Accept No Substitutes

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Nov. 23, 1993)
    Illus. in black-and-white. Even Brother falls into the temptation of torturing substitute teacher Grizella Brown. Then the pranks turn ugly, and Brother finds himself headed for big trouble.
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  • The Berenstain Bears and the School Scandal Sheet

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1994)
    Illus. in black-and-white. The cubs of Bear Country School learn something about freedom of the press--and the responsibilities that go with it--when they put out The Cub Reporter, an underground newspaper that gives the teachers and administration a failing grade.
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  • The Berenstain Bears and the Drug-Free Zone

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, May 25, 1993)
    Illus. in black-and-white. Sister and Brother uncover a drug problem in Bear Country, and they're determined to track down the culprits. But just when they're sure they've solved the case, they learn that jumping to conclusions is not the best way to solve a problem.
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  • The Berenstain Bears and the Haunted Hayride

    Stan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Aug. 26, 1997)
    The cubs want to hold a Halloween Festival to raise money to help save Farmer Ben's floundering farm, but he's reluctant. After all, no self-respecting farmer would turn his place into a theme park! Things get spooky when Ben's long-dead ancestors show up. Will Ben's farm go bust, or will the ghostly forbears come to the rescue?
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  • The Berenstain Bears and the Great Ant Attack

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, May 23, 2000)
    Head for the hills! The ants are coming! Ferdy and Actual Factual's ant-breeding experiment backfires and Bear Country is overrun by a rapidly multiplying colony of nasty hybrid ants who will eat anything in very large mouthfuls! Beartown is in a panic, and Mayor Honeypot authorizes Actual Factual to hire Bugsy X Terminator, the local bug bear, to destroy the ants. "Who would have thought," muses Actual Factual, "that the very existence of Bear Country would be endangered by an ant?" "Or," as Ferdy aptly puts it, "an uncle." Uncle Factual, that is.
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  • The Berenstain Bears at Camp Crush

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, July 26, 1994)
    Illus. in black-and-white. At Coach Grizzmeyer's summer camp, the girls are on one side of the lake and the boys are on the other. But they manage to get together...more than the Coach would like!
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  • The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Auto Graveyard

    Stan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, May 13, 1997)
    Beartown can't wait for its classic car show to open. But eight of the cars have been stolen right off the school athletic field on the same night that Two-Ton Grizzly saw a ghost at his auto graveyard. Has Beartown been invaded by a band of ghostly car thieves?
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  • The Berenstain Bears and the Galloping Ghost

    Stan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, May 24, 1994)
    Illus. in black-and-white. Both Brother Bear's fear of horses and Sister Bear's fear of ghosts need to be overcome when Miss Maud's Riding Academy, where they are taking riding lessons, turns out to be haunted.
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  • The Berenstain Bears and the Showdown at Chainsaw Gap

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Sept. 26, 1995)
    When there's a clash between the lumber interests (including Papa Bear) and the environmentalists (who want to protect an endangered bird), the cubs have some tough decisions to make.
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  • The Berenstain Bears Go Hollywood

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Oct. 12, 1999)
    Cecil Bear DeMille has decided to shoot his new movie Lost with the Wind in Bear Country, unexpectedly stirring up old rivalries and bad feelings around town. Original.
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  • The Berenstain Bears and the Great Ant Attack

    Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

    Library Binding (Random House Books for Young Readers, June 6, 2000)
    Head for the hills! The ants are coming! Ferdy and Actual Factual's ant-breeding experiment backfires and Bear Country is overrun by a rapidly multiplying colony of nasty hybrid ants who will eat anything in very large mouthfuls! Beartown is in a panic, and Mayor Honeypot authorizes Actual Factual to hire Bugsy X Terminator, the local bug bear, to destroy the ants. "Who would have thought," muses Actual Factual, "that the very existence of Bear Country would be endangered by an ant?" "Or," as Ferdy aptly puts it, "an uncle." Uncle Factual, that is.
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