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Books in Looniverse series

  • Stranger Things: A Branches Book

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Paperback (Scholastic Inc., April 30, 2013)
    This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!LOONIVERSE is an exciting new series that combines fantasy and humor. In this first book, Ed finds a coin bearing the words "strange, stranger." Once this coin comes into his life, strange things start happening all around him. One of his friends gets stuck in midair, his brother turns into a pool float, and his sister's food makes its way off her plate! Even more bizarre events all lead up to a surprise ending, leaving Ed with a new responsibility and a realization that there's more to this mysterious coin than meets the eye!
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  • Meltdown Madness: A Branches Book

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Paperback (Scholastic Inc., June 25, 2013)
    Looniverse #2 is even wackier than the first book!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Ed has to sell chocolate bars to raise money for his soccer team, but the bars have all melted. He must find another way to raise money--and fast! Ed uses his newfound ability to make strange things happen, but his plans go awry and Ed ends up needing money for the soccer team, his friend Mouse, AND two new windows! With surreal and funny antics throughout, the second book in this heavily illustrated early chapter book series is sure to keep kids laughing.
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  • Dinosaur Disaster: A Branches Book

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Paperback (Scholastic Inc., Oct. 29, 2013)
    David Lubar is back with a wacky third installment!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In this third adventure, Ed and his friends visit a robotic, life-like exhibit called Dinosaur Discovery. He has fun on the trip, but then ends up with a real-life dinosaur following him home. . . . Ed's strange magical coin has done it again! Disaster follows, and Ed simply MUST find a way to put this dinosaur back where it belongs. There are fun black-and-white illustrations on every page!
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  • Stage Fright: A Branches Book

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Paperback (Scholastic Inc., Jan. 28, 2014)
    Things in the Looniverse are stranger than ever!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In this fourth book, Ed goes to sign up for the bowling league, but accidentally signs up for a playwriting contest instead. Ed and his friends write a VERY wacky play that stars a hamburger, a moose, a ninja, and even a pirate mouse! While performing the play, Ed's powers as the Stranger make things in the Looniverse turn more than a little loony! Ed scrambles to stop the strangeness before it's too late.
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  • Stranger Things

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Library Binding (Turtleback, April 30, 2013)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A first entry in a new series aimed at first-time independent readers features a young boy named Ed who finds a magical coin that causes strange things to happen, from a friend getting stuck in midair to food wandering off his sister's plate. Simultaneous.
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  • Meltdown Madness: A Branches Book

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., June 25, 2013)
    Looniverse #2 is even wackier than the first book!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Ed has to sell chocolate bars to raise money for his soccer team, but the bars have all melted. He must find another way to raise money--and fast! Ed uses his newfound ability to make strange things happen, but his plans go awry and Ed ends up needing money for the soccer team, his friend Mouse, AND two new windows! With surreal and funny antics throughout, the second book in this heavily illustrated early chapter book series is sure to keep kids laughing.
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  • Meltdown Madness

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Library Binding (Turtleback, June 25, 2013)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When the chocolate bars he was supposed to sell for a team fundraiser melt, young Ed uses his fledgling supernatural abilities to raise money only to have things go catastrophically wrong.
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  • Dinosaur Disaster

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Library Binding (Turtleback, Oct. 29, 2013)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Ed, his friends, and even his little sister are eager to go to Dinosaur Discovery, but ever since he found the magic coin called Silver Center, strange things happen around Ed--so he is not surprised to find that a blue dinosaur has followed his sister home.
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  • Stranger Things: A Branches Book

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., April 30, 2013)
    This wacky new series will have kids on the edge of their seats!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!LOONIVERSE is an exciting new series that combines fantasy and humor. In this first book, Ed finds a coin bearing the words "strange, stranger." Once this coin comes into his life, strange things start happening all around him. One of his friends gets stuck in midair, his brother turns into a pool float, and his sister's food makes its way off her plate! Even more bizarre events all lead up to a surprise ending, leaving Ed with a new responsibility and a realization that there's more to this mysterious coin than meets the eye!
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  • Stage Fright

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Library Binding (Turtleback, Jan. 28, 2014)
    Ed and his friends accidentally sign up for a playwriting contest, a dangerous activity for someone who possesses the Silver Center, and what they write is pretty strange, but when it comes to actually performing the play, Ed's magic coin lends new meaning to the words "stage fright."
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  • Dinosaur Disaster: A Branches Book

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., Oct. 29, 2013)
    David Lubar is back with a wacky third installment!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In this third adventure, Ed and his friends visit a robotic, life-like exhibit called Dinosaur Discovery. He has fun on the trip, but then ends up with a real-life dinosaur following him home. . . . Ed's strange magical coin has done it again! Disaster follows, and Ed simply MUST find a way to put this dinosaur back where it belongs. There are fun black-and-white illustrations on every page!
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  • Stage Fright: A Branches Book

    David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., Jan. 28, 2014)
    Things in the Looniverse are stranger than ever!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In this fourth book, Ed goes to sign up for the bowling league, but accidentally signs up for a playwriting contest instead. Ed and his friends write a VERY wacky play that stars a hamburger, a moose, a ninja, and even a pirate mouse! While performing the play, Ed's powers as the Stranger make things in the Looniverse turn more than a little loony! Ed scrambles to stop the strangeness before it's too late.
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