Grumplets and Pests: Is It a Pattern or a Bad Week?
A pile of bad days is either bad luck or a cause, and from the inside the two look exactly alike. Working out which one you are looking at is...
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Gnomes and Sneezes: A Cure That Refuses to Work
Most of this book is a treatment that does not work. Zoey tries, it fails, and she tries again. That long stretch of not knowing is the reason to own...
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Caterflies and Ice: The Book Where Zoey Gets It Wrong
A storm traps a clutch of eggs, Zoey tries to save them, and she makes it worse. Books for six year olds almost never let the helpful child be the...
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Bips and Roses: When the Sick Patient Is a Plant
There is no creature to feel sorry for in this one. There is a rose bush, some hippogriff eggs on a clock, and a patient you can finally split into...
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The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor: Life Without Sun
There is a lifeguard in this book and he spends the whole story trying to get a class of children out of the water. He loses. What is down there...
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The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth: How We Know
This is the only book on the shelf whose entire subject is a place no human being has ever visited or ever will. Everything drawn in it was worked out...
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