NBA High-Flyers (Bill Gutman)

NBA High-Flyers

Bill Gutman

Blurb: They're the high-flying, slam-dunking, in-your-face magicians, America's hottest court superstars, attracting record-breaking crowds to basketball. Check em out: Basketball's bad boy, Charles Barkley, the driving force behind the Phoenix Suns...Patrick Ewing, one of the league's best scorers and leader of the powerful New York Knicks...San Antonio Spurs' all-star centre, David Robinson...the incredible Shaquille O'Neal, who led the Orlando Magic to their first playoff ever...Hakeem Olajuwon, the Houston Rockets' great scorer, outstanding rebounder and shot blocker...Scottie Pippen, emerging from the shadow of his Chicago Bulls teammate Michael Jordan to showcase his own superstar talents... Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson of the Charlotte Hornets, considered the best of the young one-two superstar tandems in the NBA...and veteran leader of the Golden State Warriors, Chris Mullin.

They're all here, up-close and personal, in NBA High-Flyers.

ISBN: 0671887394 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Archway Paperback

Pages: 166 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Buy from the Book Depository

3. Buy from Barnes & Noble

4. Official site of the NBA

5. Yahoo! NBA page

45 + 47 Stella Street and Everything that Happened (Elizabeth Honey)

45 + 47 Stella Street and Everything that Happened

Elizabeth Honey

Blurb: I just might write the whole thing down. I'll probably conk out after ten pages. What will I call it?

45 + 47 Stella Street and everything that happened. 

A whirlwind of an adventure told by 11-year-old Henni Octon...with a bit of help from Elizabeth Honey, author of Honey Sandwich, Honour Book in the 1994 Children's Book Council Awards.

ISBN: 1863738584 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: A Little Ark Book

Pages: 174 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Publisher's page

3. Buy from QBD

4. Buy from Amazon

5. Blog on the book

The Gizmo Again - Gizmo #2 (Paul Jennings & Keith McEwan)

The Gizmo Again - Gizmo #2

Paul Jennings

Illustrated by Keith McEwan

Blurb: The girl sucks Jack's eye.

Her tongue is huge and spongy and dribbly. The tip of it goes up one nostril.

Jack did something awful with an ice-cream - now it's his turn to get licked.

ISBN: 0140378073 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Puffin

Pages: 64 (Fiction)

Links

1. Author's official site

2. Publisher's page on the illustrator

3. Goodreads page

4. Buy from Amazon

5. Wikipedia page for the author

Carn the Crows (Lorraine Wilson, Paul Harvey, David O'Brien)

Carn the Crows

Lorraine Wilson

Illustrated by Paul Harvey & David O'Brien

Blurb: I barrack for the Crows. I think all of South Australia barracks for the Crows. 

ISBN: 1863917640 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Reed

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

Links

1. Author's official site

2. Google books page

3. Official website of the Crows

4. List of other books in the series

5. Article on the author

Go Dockers (Lorraine Wilson, Paul Harvey & David O'Brien)

Go Dockers

Written by Lorraine Wilson

Illustrated by Paul Harvey & David O'Brien

Blurb: Fremantle is the newest club in the AFl. Many of our players come from local teams. I've joined the Kid Dockers Club. Sometimes KDC members are invited onto the oval after training.

ISBN: 1863917632 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Reed

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Bookworld

2. Google books page

3. Official website of the Fremantle Football Club

4. Wikipedia page for Freo

5. Follow the team on Twitter

A Night in Terror Tower - Goosebumps #27 (R.L. Stine)

A Night in Terror Tower - Goosebumps #27

R.L. Stine

Blurb: All locked up and no place to go!

Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. No way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower. 

No way they'd get locked inside. After dark. With those eerie sounds. And a strange dark figure who wants them...dead.

ISBN: 059048351X (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Scholastic 

Pages: 129 (Fiction)

Links

1. Blog on the book

2. Goodreads page

3. TV adaption of the story

4. Tumblr pages on the book

5. Buy from Amazon

The Cuckoo Clock of Doom - Goosebumps #28 (R.L. Stine)

The Cuckoo Clock of Doom - Goosebumps #28

R.L. Stine

Blurb: Don't beat the clock!

Tara the Terrible. That's what Michael Webster calls his bratty little sister. She loves getting Michael in trouble. Making his life miserable. Things couldn't get any worse.

Then Mr. Webster brings home the antique cuckoo clock. It's old. It's expensive. And Mr. Webster won't let anyone touch.  

Poor Michael. He should have listened to his dad.

Because someone put a spell on the clock. A strange spell.

A dangerous spell. And now Michael's life will never be the same again...

ISBN: 0590483528 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 118 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Review of the book

3. Goodreads page

4. Blog on the book

5. Wiki page on the book

Monster Blood III - Goosebumps #29 (R.L. Stine)

Monster Blood III - Goosebumps #29

R.L. Stine

Blurb: It's the slime that never dies!

Evan can't stand baby-sitting his genius cousin, Kermit. Kermit refuses to play video games. He won't even play Frisbee! All he likes to do is hang out in the basement doing strange experiments and playing mean practical jokes on Evan and his friend Andy.

But now Andy's found something that will teach Kermit a lesson once and for all.

It's green. It's slimy. And it comes in a can marked... Monster Blood!

ISBN: 0590483471 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Scholastic 

Pages: 126 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. PDF preview of the book

3. Blog on the book

4. Buy from Amazon

5. Review of the book