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Books in Avon/Camelot Book series

  • The Mummy's Curse: 101 Of the World's Strangest Mysteries

    Daniel Cohen

    Paperback (Avon Books (Mm), Oct. 15, 1994)
    A collection of some of the world's most baffling mysteries examines the truth behind the curse of King Tut's tomb, the Loch Ness monster, Stonehenge, and other tales of hauntings, strange phenomena, UFOs, and more.
  • Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers

    Mike Thaler, Jared D. Lee

    Paperback (Camelot, Sept. 1, 1994)
    When the school principal greets them in a chicken suit, the class knows they will have no ordinary day, but they are unprepared for the antics of their teacher who, with spitballs and paper airplanes, outdoes the worst of her students. Original.
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  • For Girls Only: Wise Words and Good Advice

    Carol Weston

    Paperback (HarperTrophy, April 15, 1998)
    Here it is, a short book that's long on advice and wisdom for girls. For Girls Only can help you know yourself, get along better with friends and family, understand guys, excel in school, realize your ambitions, and become a more confident person. Carol Weston, advice columnist for Girls' Life magazine and bestselling author of Girltalk, offers her best tips and adds her own spin to over four hundred carefully chosen quotations. You'll find insight and inspiration in the words of Socrates and Seinfeld, Dear Abby and Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain and Mother Teresa, Anne Frank and Oprah Winfrey, Maya Lin and Maya Angelou--and in proverbs and quotations from around the world and throughout time for your concerns of here and now.Here it is, a short book thats long on advice and wisdom for girls. For Girls Only can help you know yourself, get along better with friends and family, understand guys, excel in school, realize your ambitions, and become a more confident person. Carol Weston, advice columnist for Girls Life magazine and bestselling author of Girltalk, offers her best tips and adds her own spin to over four hundred carefully chosen quotations. Youll find insight and inspiration in the words of Socrates and Seinfeld, Dear Abby and Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain and Mother Teresa, Anne Frank and Oprah Winfrey, Maya Lin and Maya Angelou--and in proverbs and quotations from around the world and throughout time for your concerns of here and now.
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  • Vampire Vacation

    Thomas McKean

    Paperback (Camelot, March 1, 1986)
    Beth, Teasdale, and Leo Smith arrive at New Hampshire's beautiful Hidden Valley Hotel with their hypochondriac Aunt Henrietta and soon learn that one of Count Dracula's descendants lurks in the surrounding mountains
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  • Summer Camp Creeps

    Tim Schoch

    Paperback (Avon Books, July 1, 1987)
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  • The Codebreaker Kids

    George Edward Stanley

    Paperback (Avon Books, May 1, 1987)
    Three friends form a codebreaking service and meet a motley cast of characters including a Bulgarian spy, a man from the State Department, and a little old lady who wants her diary encoded.
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  • Racing the Sun

    Paul Pitts

    Hardcover (Perfection Learning, Aug. 1, 1988)
    Being an American in ian wasn't something twelve-year-old Brandon Rogers liked to advertise. His father had left his Indian heritage behind when he went to college and Brandon had grown up in suburbia-just a regular kid. Who neededembarrassing mumbo-jumbo to make you look different? But then Brandon's Navajo grandfather moved off the reservation and into the lower bunk in Brandon's room!It wasn't easy having a roommate who chanted himself to sleep and got you out of bed before sunrise to race the sun. But now Brandon's learning lessons he'll never forget. Like how to take on the old ways without giving up the new. And how to grow up proud and strong ... with a heritage as real as an old man's love.
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  • Happily After All

    Laura C. Stevenson

    Paperback (Camelot, March 1, 1993)
    When her father dies, Becca must move from California to Vermont to live with her mother, who had abandoned her at age two. Reprint.
  • Heart of a Champion

    Carl Deuker

    Mass Market Paperback (HarperTeen, May 1, 1994)
    Seth and Jimmy have the kind of friendship you can't put into words-thekind you think only happens in books and movies. They both live and breathebaseball, but while Seth struggles to be good enough to make the varsityteam, Jimmy, a natural, looks like he's on is way to becoming a major league star some day. 0n and off the field, their passion for "A the game gets them through some of life's bitterest struggles and unites them in a once in a lifetime friendship that is meant to last forever...
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  • Chain Letter

    Christopher Pike

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval, May 1, 1986)
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  • Kids' Fort Book

    David R. Stiles

    Paperback (Avon Books, April 1, 1982)
    Includes directions for building indoor and outdoor forts from blankets, boxes, leaves, sand, snow, and logs, as well as instructions for making model forts and toy weapons.
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  • Maria Looney and the Cosmic Circus

    Jerome Beatty Jr., Gahan Wilson

    Paperback (Avon Books, Sept. 1, 1978)
    The arrival of Bill Bailey's circus on the moon means trouble for Maria Looney, especially when it becomes apparent that someone is trying to steal the top-secret designs of the Moon's L-Bomb.
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