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Finnley McDougall’s boring schoolboy life in Seattle gets turned upside down when Great Uncle Hugh gives him a most unusual gift - a scruffy, rude, bad-tempered Scottish rock creature called Wullie who brings danger and disaster with him wherever he goes. From French snobs in fancy hotels, rusting barges on the Seattle waterfront, abandoned coalmines and flooded quarries in the Scottish hillsides filled with bullies, gangsters, slobbering dogs, and weird food Finn is drawn into an evil plot that threatens to destroy everything he loves…including Edinburgh Castle. The only person who thinks that Finn is smart enough or brave enough to survive all this is his best friend and next door neighbor, Hadley Kobayashi, a girl who is wiser and tougher than Finn.

Finnley McDougall’s best friend, Hadley, is dying of gomebane poison. The secret cure was lost 500 years ago when the Inca Empire collapsed. And unless he can control his emotions, Finn will stiffen up and turn to stone. Dealing with school bullies and obnoxious popular girls was a lot easier than this. And to make things even worse, Wullie, his scruffy, rude, bad-tempered friend and protector, is being hunted by the most evil gomes in Europe. Can Finn trust Varry Doo, the bog witch of Calanais, to help? Will he survive getting slathered with alpaca grease and soot, eating freeze-dried llama meat, and getting covered in condor vomit? If so he may need to crawl through the snow past decomposing sheep carcasses and an army of angry gomes to try to save the day. It won’t be as easy as it sounds.

A beloved sculpture is stolen by an acid-spitting rock creature in Barcelona. A smart, brave 13-year-old girl deals with her father's ditzy girlfriends in Seattle. A doleful sandstone gome battles wolf hounds and guard geese at Cragganbogle Castle on the Western Isles of Scotland. When Finnley and Hadley's seventh-grade class is invited to spend a vacation in Spain, these unlikely events are drawn together into an adventure filled with more danger, weird food, snooty popular girls, underground cave cities, and evil bog witches than they could have hoped for. Can they survive the Rock Pit of Torture and Justice, attacks by a cloud of midges and dive-bombing bonxies, and the embarrassment of Hadley's mother's naked Druid dance under the midsummer moonlight? Only if their scruffy, rude, ill-tempered companion, Wullie, can do the impossible.

Blessed–or cursed–with a connection to the souls of others, Sloan Jordan can see the best in people… and the worst. For twenty-seven years, she's kept her ability a secret, but eleven young women have been murdered in the mountains of North Carolina, and Sloan may be the only hope of finding their killer. She has just agreed to help Detective Nathan McNamara with the case, when a stranger—who is as alluring as he is terrifying—shows up at her doorstep with a dark past and another puzzling mystery: she can't see his soul at all. Now Sloan is on the hunt for a deadly psychopath with two irresistible men. One of them would die for her, and the other would kill to keep her safe.

Mr. Pelinger presents two tales from his house. In the first one, the Foster siblings venture into the house to become a part of a dangerous Chutes and Ladders game within the rings of the Intergalactic Roadshow. ringmastered by General Custer and Sitting Bull. Then the second tale sees the Foster siblings return this time as contestants on a game show pitting Queen Victoriaand Teddy Roosevelt as the celebrity guests battling over which nation is truly the best, England or America.

Every child dreams about flying, but when have we ever gotten the chance to do so... Max did though. Max Teller is a precocious boy who was left in a precarious predicament one fine afternoon. Can you even imagine what soup this child got himself into? Alas not, then I will tell you. Have you not desired that one day you could be brave enough to fly? Of course you have, we all have been children. Some people like myself in an advanced age remain one to this day. My envy for Mr. Teller can not be rivaled, for he indeed flew! Oh he did not start off so brave, nor was it a journey he asked for, but one that called him!Read our tale today and find out if Max what happens to Max!

Who would think concepts such as hope, faith, and love are so important that without them we would never have concepts such as justice, peace, and mercy that society depends on. Did you ever think it all started with the belief in the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus?Follow our tale of Rudolph visiting a little girl shortly after Christmas who is losing her faith. Can Rudolph help her to continue to believe?

Help Mr. Zac find the Golden Egg that was stolen by King Derby from the Boy Emperor of China before an international war starts. You will travel through the real underground tunnels that lead through Salem. Where you will meet famous people from Salem trapped in time. Learn about the secret historical trip of Templars and Vikings to these shores. Discover what magical items the Salem East India Marine Society smuggled into town through the ages. Follow a real map of where all of the tunnels are in town and learn about those who made them.

In this tale the third book in the Salem Trilogy you will journey into the skies in a Caddy Balloon alongside millions of other readers who think they are safely tucked away in their homes. In fact they will be riding within their own Caddy Balloons next to yours. Once you open the pages of this book you have entered the magical whimsical side of Salem. We have employed a vast network of gremlins to paint what you think is the real world around you to keep you comfortable if you should ever look up from the pages. In fact you might catch them smiling at you if your quick enough to see them before they hide behind the book’s cover once more. So open the front cover and enter this tale about the war between the Salem Boys Fraternity and the Mack Industrial School for Girls. A battle raged from the rooftops using pea shooters and Nerf guns.

An emerging reader in which you follow the tales of 4 stuffed animals get up to during the night while their Child sleeps. Follow the adventures of Teddy who fights off the menacing tree spirit; Gus, dressed as Sherlock Holmes, who is on the trail of the mysterious honey pot through the streets of London; Guff and his marvelously fantastic adventure; and Harriet the Invisible Rabbit who thinks she is James Bond. These tales promise a life time of stories as you are encouraged to make up a new one every time you read the book!

Ideal for students who need to understand methodologies and results, but who may never undertake major research projects themselves, this text offers an innovative, accurate introduction to social research with balanced treatment of qualitative and quantitative methods, integration of substantive examples and research techniques, and consistent attention to the goal of validity and the standards of ethical practice. This bestseller features a new chapter on evaluation research, a new chapter on research ethics, revised coverage of qualitative methods and updates throughout the text.Offering a brief, engaging, and sometimes humorous treatment of social research methods, it covers all essential elements of social research methods including validity, causation, experimental and quasi-experimental design, and techniques of analysis. It offers real data and updated examples that emphasize everyday experiences and current issues, new ethics exercises, and contemporary coverage of web-based research methods.This text is intended for courses in Research Methods offered in departments of sociology, criminal justice, social work, communication, media studies, political science, and public administration.