New Releases by Dan Greenburg

Zack learns that the baseball card he wants to buy has just been purchased by a boy named Mack who, when meeting him, surprisingly introduces himself as Zack''s son from the future. Simultaneous.

When magic enables Zack''s eighty-eight-year-old grandmother to become a terrific batter, she ends up playing in a Chicago White Sox baseball game.

When Cody is 14, he runs away from home, leaving behind his abusive mother, and flees across the country. He doesn’t stop until he hits Texas and the Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. Under the guidance of Sunny, the ranch’s owner, he cares for the animals in ways he never imagined. He feeds them a diet of raw, bloody meat. He cleans out their cages. He takes them for exercise. He finds out how to get a tiger to back down, and when he should back down himself. But there is another lesson Cody has to learn—sometimes people are harder to handle than tigers.

Having been reunited with their zombie father only to have him turn into a vampire after drinking an experimental elixir of life, the ten-year-old Shluffmuffin twins continue to try to elude the giant ants that want to enslave all humans. Book #3

Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin fall back into the clutches of the show-tune happy Hortense Jolly at the Jolly Days Orphanage in this seventh book of the deliciously disturbing Dripping Fang series. Illustrations.

Followed by an assassin and her poisonous snakes, ten-year-old twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin try to get from their Ohio home to the FBI training facility in Quantico, VA, to get help in freeing human hostages from the onts.

Ten-year-old orphan twins Wally and Cheyenne get out of the Jolly Days orphanage, only to have more problems dealing with the Mandible sisters, evil giant ants, and their zombie father.

When Zack and Spencer get the late-night munchies at a sleepover, they curb their hunger with some freeze-dried food that Zack got at the Air & Space Museum. After devouring freeze-dried ice cream and pizza, they come across an extra package of freeze-dried something. When opened and wet, the shriveled mass starts growing, and growing and growing! How will the boys stop an out-of-control blob from eating everything in sight before it''s too late? Illustrated by Jack E. Davis.

Zack''s classmate Andrew Clancy is always bragging. Everyone knows he''s a big liar. But suddenly, Andrew is having trouble hiding the fact that he isn''t telling the truth, and every time he tells another whopper, his butt grows bigger-will it ever stop?

The Zack Files #28.

Zack''s new substitute teacher seems kind of odd. And she is rather hairy. And get this, her name is Mrs. Wolfowitz! But is she really a werewolf? Or just one very weird lady who happens to like the taste of homework papers? Read on to find out!

The Zack Files #27.

The Zack Files #29.

Is two too much? That''s what Max Silver is about to find out. Because his sister, Tiffany, is the newest superhero flying through the sky ...

I went to visit my Grandma Leah in Chicago, and we went to a White Sox game. Doesn’t sound like such a big deal, right? Well, here’s the thing—Grandma played in the game!

The Zack Files #23.

Zack bought a dinosaur egg at a flea market and it was not to go in a microwave.

Max Silver: ordinary eleven-year-old by day; superhero by afternoon. An evil chef has figured out a way to tap into people''s taste buds and make everything taste like broccoli. Can Max stop the Tastemaster before the whole world gets indigestion?

Zack goes on a class trip, gets an insect bit, and suddenly can''t speak a single word that isn''t in rhyme. Talking like a modern-day Shakespeare may be fun at first, but not when you can''t turn it off! What could be verse? How did this happen? And how can Zack make it stop?

Zack''s first trip to sleep-away camp gets a little hairy when legends of a mysterious creature lurking in the woods turn out to be more than just campfire tales. Is it the missing link? Yeti? Sasquatch? Bigfoot?

Forget about the Y2K problem! Zack''s up to his ears in dragons and wizards when a computer glitch sends him hurtling back in time to the year 999--and a peculiar boys'' school known as Dragon Slayers'' Academy!

A strange trip through a metal detector causes Zack''s eighty-eight year old Grandma Leah to get younger and younger.

Uh-oh! Thanks to a heaping helping of a new dietetic sugar substitute, Zack shrinks down to the size of a bug. It''s not all that bad--until he discovers an army of ants who are building an ant pyramid for their despotic pharaoh-queen!

When Zack and his dad come upon an alien whose spacecraft is running on empty in Central Park, it''s easy enough to find more fuel. (Mayonnaise!) But retrieving the abandoned spaceship from the NYPD is quite a different story!

In Central Park, Zack and his dad encounter an alien who has lost his spaceship, which has been towed because it was illegally parked.

When Zack goes to a store to buy a baseball card, he finds himself face-to-face with his future son who has traveled back in time.

Zack and his father go to Hawaii where Zack has an unfortunate encounter with an angry volcano goddess.

"My clone looks like me. My clone talks like me. He helps me with my homework and takes care of my bullies. And he could be the answer to all my problems. Or he could be my biggest one yet!