Books with title The Sky Phantom

Isaac is the new kid in town. His mother, Vera, is in the hospital with a mysterious illness, and the only person left to care for Isaac is his distant grandfather. Friendless and often alone, Isaac loses himself in his collection of optical illusions, including a strange mirror box that he finds in his new house, left behind by the previous tenants. Designed for amputees, it creates the illusion of a second limb. Lonely Isaac wishes someone would reach out to him, and then someone does—a phantom limb within the mirror box! It signs to Isaac about a growing danger: someone who has murdered before and is out to get Vera next. The only way Isaac can solve the mystery and save his mother is with the help of the mirror box. But can he trust the phantom limb?

Time is a river, beware of its flow. If you don’t have the compass who knows where you’ll go….Think being a teenager is difficult? Try being a teenager catapulted 3,000 years into the past!Meet Clark Clements. A normal young man with normal problems such as school, homework, bullies and crushes on his schoolmates. A mysterious package from his grandfather arrives on his birthday and what Clark finds inside will not only change his life but also change History as we know it.Join Clark on the first epic adventure in the A Pocket in Time series; one boy’s journey through time, space and teenage life! Can the past be re-written? Can History be fixed!? Will Clark make it to the School Dance!?Who knew being a hero could be such hard work?

"The outlaw! The roan waved his foot back and forth in ceaseless pain. I thought so, muttered Glenn. It's a rock in the frog. He pulled a pocketknife from his levis. Sterlizing the blade in the fire, he probed for the rock. It came free a three cornered jagged piece of granite. And so begins a partnership of boy and horse that climaxes in the Rodeo in New York's Madison Square Garden" This is from the back cover of the book.

It is 1942, and Manny Keefer, cut from his sophomore basketball team, decides to volunteer to be team manager to keep up with his friends Wally and Felix, who are still on the team. As World War Ii changes the entire world around him, his own life is changing just as drastically. When the sports editor of the Daily News announces that he'll be printing news and scores from all local high schools, Manny sees an opportunity to turn his friends into stars. But when the editor says their private school isn't big enough for any stories, Manny and his friends create a fictitious team and begin feeding the editor stories about it--soon giving their nonexistent team the best record in the state. As the fake team gains recognition all around the community, the joke begins to spiral out of Manny's control. What will happen when his deception is discovered? Based on a true story of American life during World War Ii, this novel tells the story of the creation of a phantom high school basketball team that jeopardizes friendships and much more.

FOR AGES 8 - 12. What happens when a school play set in one of the most important battles of the Civil War-Battle of Antietam-calls up more excitement for the cast and crew than they expected? Strange events and unexplained effects haunt the stage of Beauregard Middle School where Sam Nunn and his closest friend Jae Min take the roles of General George McClellan and General Robert E. Lee... Cover design & art: Mary Elizabeth Tippin-Moody