Adam McCauley
Author
Series
Gym shorts volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Goose is best at goofing off, but when he decides to become the goalie for their soccer team, his friend Henry sets up a practice schedule and enlists their other friends to help Goose improve his skills.
Author
Series
Gym shorts volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Henry and his basketball teammates, the Bats, take on the Tigers, and Henry learns a lesson about working as a team.
Author
Series
Gym shorts volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rita tries to improve her times and flip turns as she struggles to decide whether to remain the best swimmer on the Dolphins team or the worst on the Sharks team, where she could be with her friends.
Author
Series
Gym shorts volume 4
Language
English
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Description
When Rocky, a talented catcher who was injured during the previous baseball season by an out-of-control runner, develops a reflex that keeps him from tagging the runner out, Rocky's friends--and his dog Chops--help him overcome his fear.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 9
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
7) Sam Samurai
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 10
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported to seventeenth century Japan where they infuriate a Samurai warrior, encounter their great-grandaughters, and save their lives by reciting an ancient form of poetry.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 12
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Joe, Sam and Fred take a wild adventure sailing with Leif Erickson.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 15
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
After arriving in Pennsylvania during the winter of 1776, time travelers Joe, Fred, and Samantha inspire General George Washington, "the man on the one dollar bill," to carry out a surprise attack on Hessian troops in Trenton, New Jersey, that will change the course of the Revolutionary War.
11) Marco? Polo!
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 16
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Time Warp Trio find themselves in a desert in China, and in order to retrieve their magical book from the court of Kublai Khan, they must pose as astrologers and join the caravan of Marco Polo and his father.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 11
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Joe, Sam, and Fred experience Brooklyn in the 1880s and see that some guy is trying to build a bridge all the way across to Manhattan.
Author
Series
Cheesie Mack volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The summer after fifth grade, Cheesie and Georgie go to camp in Maine, where they discover that they are bunking with the older kids and Cheesie must face off in a Cool Duel with the dreaded Kevin Welch.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 14
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In their latest time travel adventure, Fred, Joe, and Sam da Brooklyn meet Leonardo da Vinci and try to avoid becoming toilet scrubbers in a sixteenth-century Italian army.
Author
Series
Wayside School volume 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School."
18) Me oh Maya
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 13
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam find themselves whisked by The Book to the main ring-ball court in Chichin Itza, Mexico in 1000 A.D., where they must play for their lives against a Mayan High Priest who cheats.
Author
Language
English
Description
Bob has a problem. He's a palindrome. In fact, once he learns what a palindrome is, he starts finding palindromes everywhere: his little sis, Nan, his pup, Otto, even his Mom and Dad! It's making Bobfeel like a kook. Is there no escape? Mark Shulman and Adam McCauley have joined forces to create a wonderfully visual, ridiculously clever book of wordplay. Join the hilarity...do your civic deed, don't let your pupils slip up, and find the over 101 palindromes...