Books with title Disappearing Acts

When Herculeah Jones's best friend, Meat, decides to take a comedy class, he just expects to get a few laughs. But then he discovers a dead body in the bathroom, and realizes that there's nothing funny about murder. Things can't get any worse—until the body disappears! Meat needs Herculeah's help to uncover the clues, but she's busy investigating a case of her own . . . one that might just change Meat's life forever!

When Herculeah Jones's best friend, Meat, decides to take a comedy class, he just expects to get a few laughs. But then he discovers a dead body in the bathroom, and realizes that there's nothing funny about murder. Things can't get any worse—until the body disappears! Meat needs Herculeah's help to uncover the clues, but she's busy investigating a case of her own . . . one that might just change Meat's life forever!

While the other children are sleeping, safely tucked up in their cosy beds at the abandoned hospital they call home, Cassie Cycle begins to practise for the performance of a lifetime. Leaping and flying through the air, a sudden ‘interruption’ leaves her in terrible pain, setting a chain of events crashing into motion. With only days to go until the show, the mysterious inhabitants of the abandoned hospital are left wondering who on earth can backflip into her talented shoes at such short notice.Meanwhile, across town, Edward and Nicky Dealer are enjoying the summer holidays, blissfully unaware that Nicky is about to disappear. With their mother away on a business trip and the telly loving au-pair distracted by thoughts of becoming a star, Edward has no other choice than to turn detective. Following a confusion of clues, he encounters a cast of characters who help and hinder him in equal measure. From a strange little old lady called Mrs Cabbage and her postcard-licking puppy to a disappointed Cucumber and a pair of argumentative Grouchers, Edward struggles to piece things together.Elsewhere, Nicky is wondering whether to follow his dreams or make a run for it!Disappearing Act is a romping race against time with plenty of mistaken identities, mishaps, mix-ups and mystery, not forgetting detection, deception, disaster, disguise and daredevil dogs. A caper that will keep you turning the pages to its nail-biting, nerve-shredding finale.

An unseen man they call the Toad is stalking twelve-year-old Kevin and his older sister, Holly. They flee town in Holly's beat-up old car, driving west until they reach the Pacific Ocean. They change their names and attempt to hide in plain sight as street performers in Venice, California. But have they really eluded the Toad? Here is Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman doing what he does best -- spinning a tale with style.

The carnival: here today, gone tomorrow.Zoe has once chance to accept her fate and save her friends. Failure is not an option.The summer starts off as a normal carnival season for Zoe who has grown up in the carnival. Soon she realizes it's everything, but normal. Friends are disappearing and Zoe begins to notice she has an ability to see what is happening to her. Will she be able to learn to use her newfound telepathic powers to save her friends from a madman before the summer is over?Come for the carnival, stay for the story....

The carnival: here today, gone tomorrow.People are disappearing one by one at the fairgrounds. Zoe and her friends and family are in danger. Who is doing this to them? Why? Zoe feels like she is always being watched... and maybe she is! Can Zoe make peace with her telepathic nature and stop the kidnapper before more of her loved ones turn up missing? - Tamara- The Reading Mermaid blog Come for the carnival, stay for the story....**edited and published again as a second edition. Same great story, but re-edited for grammar mistakes**

Moving from Texas to Maine, his parents constantly fighting and trying to take on the school bully were all that Sam Neville could take. He began to turn invisible. Sam’s not sure how his disappearing is happening, but he takes advantage of it when he can. His run-ins with Jake, the school bully, were legendary. At least around his new school they were.Sam has always been able to draw very well. When he found time to draw or hang out with his new best friend, Nathan, he would find his serenity. Sam would also somehow get the prettiest girl in school, Ericka, to go out with him. She is also Jake’s ex-girlfriend.We will see Sam come full circle from being the shy boy to becoming more outgoing and able to control his disappearing. Sam’s story takes place thoughout his freshman year of high school and into his summer job.

An unseen man they call the Toad is stalking twelve-year-old Kevin and his older sister, Holly. They flee town in Holly's beat-up old car, driving west until they reach the Pacific Ocean. They change their names and attempt to hide in plain sight as street performers in Venice, California. But have they really eluded the Toad?From the opening sentence, this page-turner of a novel is alive with surprise twists and suspense. Imagine a buried city made entirely of gold! Watch big Bumpy Rhoades juggle twenty-pound watermelons on the boardwalk. Meet Daisy, an aspiring artist with braces on her teeth who helps Kevin become a beachside fortune-teller. And notice the man in the white suit? Is he the Toad?Here is Newbery Medalist and former professional magician Sid Fleischman doing what he does best - spinning a tale with style, comic touches, and a double-barreled theme lurking behind the laughter.