New Releases by Dan Greenburg

When Zack is bitten by a tick during a class trip to Central Park he succumbs to Rhyme Disease, which causes him to speak only in rhymes and to float like a helium balloon.

Klatu, Lek, and Ploo head back to Groom Lake to fix their busted spaceship. But the spaceship is gone--it''s been taken to Area 51. There''s nothing for the aliens to do other than sneak in and search for it. Instead they find something they weren''t looking for--the Great Ones! The mythic missing Looglians Org, Murkel, Shemp, and Kurth crashed at Roswell New Mexico in 1947, and have been in the deep freeze ever since. Can our three wacky alien kids rescue them? Dan Greenburg brings his trademark quirkiness and humor to the third book in his newest chapter book series.

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.

As the Shluffmuffin twins'' father takes up some unsavory vampire activities, Cheyenne is kidnapped again by the Mandible sisters, leading Wally to come up with a SWAT-team commando plan to bring her back.

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.

Klatu is such a varna! He crashed the spaceship into planet Earth with his brother Lek and sister Ploo onboard. Stuck in the middle of the Nevada desert with nowhere to run, Ploo is captured by army Earthlings who think that she is an enemy of humankind. Can Klatu and Lek to rescue Ploo from the terrifying Major Paine? Or will Ploo be held prisoner in Area 51 forever?

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!

Mummies are cool, but they’re creepy, too! Zack has faced aliens, vampires, time-travelers, ghosts, and Bigfoot—now find out what happens when he meets teenage mummy Ikhnaton (Icky for short).

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 ...

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?

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.

Late one night when Zack hears strains of "Heartbreak Hotel" coming from the fridge, he discovers the possibility that Elvis lives on...as a turnip! Talk about getting back to musical roots!

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.

The Zack Files #11.

"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!

When Zack''s friend Spencer brings a 60''s-style hippie book on astral travel to a sleepover, Zack learns the ins and outs of out-of-body travel in a snap. Getting out of their bodies seems awfully easy for the boys. The problem is, how do they get back in?!

The Zack Files #8.

After an electrifying experiment in science class gives Zack a shock, he realizes that he can read other people''s minds.