My Hairiest Adventure - Goosebumps #26 (R.L. Stine)

My Hairiest Adventure - Goosebumps #26

R.L. Stine

Blurb: He's having a really, really bad-hair day...

Larry Boyd just found the coolest thing in the trash. It's an old bottle of INSTA-TAN. 'Rub on a dark suntan in minutes' - that's what the label says. So Larry and his friends do, but nothing much happens.

Until Larry notices the hair. Dark spikey hair growing on his hands and face. Really gross shiny hair.

Hair that keeps growing back even after he shaves it off...

ISBN: 0590483501 (Paperback)

Year: 1994

Publisher: Scholastic 

Pages: 122 (Fiction)

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Through My Eyes - The Autobiography of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton)

Through My Eyes - The Autobiography of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

Blurb: 'This is the story of a little girl who lived, and breathed, and loved, and was loved. She was part of me. She grew within my body and when she died, part of me died, and nothing will ever alter that fact. This is her story, and mind.' - Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

'Page after page demolishes the myth and fables that have been spun around a nation's obsession with the baby's disappearance.' - The Sydney Morning Herald

'What first struck me on meeting Lindy was her sense of humour and surprising lack of bitterness. Here is a woman who has been under such macabre and intense public scrutiny and yet through all the tabloid hysteria they haven't managed to capture the real Lindy at all. There are so many myths about Lindy and the Chamberlain case that have still not been dispelled and to read this book is to get closer to the truth behind the story that has continued to fascinate Australia for the past 24 years.' - Miranda Otto, Actress

ISBN: 0975114530 (Paperback)

Year: 1990/2004

Publisher: East Street Publications

Pages: 804 (Non-Fiction)

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1. Author's official site

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3. Publisher's page for the book

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My Life With Asperger's (Megan Hammond)

My Life With Asperger's 

Megan Hammond

Blurb: Imagine finding yourself in another culture. One where the language is familiar but all the little signals such as facial expressions and body language are foreign. How do you make sense of that? How hard would it be to build friendships, keep a job or find love?

Welcome to the confusing world of those trying to cope with Asperger's.

Asperger's syndrome is one of the more common autistic spectrum disorders. ASDs have been identified in one in every 100 people. The diagnosis is given to individuals with impairments in social interaction and communication as well as restricted and repetitive interests in activities that are generally evident prior to three years of age.

Megan Hammond has had a lifetime of battling the condition, struggling with employers who don't understand, lovers who have taken advantage of her and a health system that does not fully comprehend the special needs of people with Asperger's syndrome.

In this painfully honest and inspiring account, Megan takes us into her world hoping it will bring understanding and tolerance. 

ISBN: 9781741107883 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: New Holland

Pages: 160 (Non-Fiction)

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My Name is Evil: The Nightmare Room #3 (R.L. Stine)

My Name is Evil: The Nightmare Room #3

R.L. Stine

Blurb: You hold in your hand the key to a shadow world if shivers and screams. Take a step away from the safe, comfortable world you know. Unlock the door to terror. There's always room for one more in.... The Nightmare Room.

Say Happy Birthday to Maggie O'Connor. She's that shy, pretty girl standing outside the fortune-teller's tent. Maggie and her friends came to the carnival for fun. But Maggie won't be celebrating for long. The old woman who reads her palm will soon have Maggie screaming in horror. Because Maggie hasn't really entered a fortune-teller's tent. She has stepped into THE NIGHTMARE ROOM.

ISBN: 0064409015 (Paperback)

Year: 2000

Publisher: Avon Books

Pages: 144 (Fiction)

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4. Wikipedia page for the TV series based on this book series

5. Official site for the series

Stieg Larsson, My Friend (Kurdo Baksi)

Stieg Larsson, My Friend

Kurdo Baksi

Blurb: Stieg Larsson is best known as the author of the Millennium trilogy, but during his career as a journalist he was also a crucial protagonist in the battle against racism and for democracy in Sweden and in Europe, and a founder of the anti-facist magazine Expo. Kurdo Baksi first met Larsson in 1992; it was the beginning of an intense friendship, and a fruitful but challenging working relationship. Now, six years after Larsson's sudden death, Baksi has written about his close friend.

In this candid and rounded memoir Baksi answers the questions a multitude of Larsson's readers have already asked: about his upbringing; the recurring death threats from neo-Nazi groups; his prodigious capacity for work on the causes about which he was passionate; his feminism - so evident in his novels - and his dogmatism. What was he like as a colleague? Who provided the inspiration for his now-immortal characters (Baksi is one of the few who appears in the trilogy as himself)? Who was Lisbeth Salander?

Stieg Larsson, My Friend is an eloquent and troubling insight into the life of a man who has rapidly become one of the world's bestselling authors.

Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.

ISBN: 9780857050717 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Maclehose Press

Pages: 144 (Non-Fiction)

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Middle School - The Worst Years of My Life (James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts)

Middle School - The Worst Years of My Life

James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts

Blurb: This is the totally insane story of how I, Rafe Khatchadorian,

-fought and overcame a diabolical teacher called Dragon Lady,

-sold my soul to the school bully, a dollar at a time,

-wrestled with a real live bear; repeatedly,

-fell kind of in 'like' with the most popular girl in school,

-went into the soda business and went bust,

-and accidentally-on-purpose hurt all the people I care about.

The worst days of my life were good sometimes.

Bad sometimes.

But mostly they were hilarious.

See for yourself.

ISBN: 9780099543992 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Young Arrow

Pages: 283 (Fiction)

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My Treasury of Spooky Stories (Joff Brown)

My Treasury of Spooky Stories

Joff Brown

Blurb: There are ghosts and ghouls galore in this treasury of spooky stories for boys.

Choose from a variety of original, creepy tales set in cob-webbed dungeons, haunted house and slime-covered cellars.

Find out what lurks in the shadows of the night and enjoy the spine-tingling thrills.

ISBN: 9780857341525 (Softback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Igloo

Pages: 160 (Fiction)

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1. Buy from Amazon

2. Wikipedia page for Halloween

3. History of Halloween

4. Halloween recipes

5. 101 Halloween ideas

The Day My Bum Went Psycho (Andy Griffiths)

The Day My Bum Went Psycho

Andy Griffiths

Blurb: Zack Freeman is ready to tell his story...

The story of a boy and his crazy runaway bum.

The story of a crack bum-fighting unit called the B-team, a legendary Bum Hunter and his formidable daughter, and some of the biggest, ugliest and meanest bums ever to roam the face of the Earth.

A story of courage and endurance that takes Zack on a journey across the Great Windy Desert, through the Brown Forest and over the Sea of Bums before descending into the heart of an explosive bumcano to confront the biggest, ugliest and meanest bum of them all...

ISBN: 0330362925 (Paperback)

Year: 2001

Publisher: Pant Macmillan

Pages: 221 (Fiction)

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1. Wikipedia page for the book

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4. Information about the book

5. American site for Andy Griffiths

My Moshi Monsters Joke Book (Various)

My Moshi Monsters Joke Book

Various

Blurb: Roary Scrawl has picked out his favourites from your jokes submitted to The Daily Growl and pit them into this hilarious joke book! Packed with side-splitting funnies to tickle you and your monster!

What does a polite monster say when he meets you for the first time?

Pleased to eat you!

ISBN: 9781409390459 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Lady Bird Books

Pages: 64 (Fiction)

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5. Official Moshi Monsters website