Guys Read: Thriller
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A body on the tracks
A teenage terrorist
A mysterious wish-granting machine
The world’s worst private detective
The second volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading is chock-full of mystery, intrigue, and nefarious activity. Author M. T. Anderson sends a TV crew’s son to face bitter ghost brothers who guard a priceless antique.
Gennifer Choldenko traps an investigative reporter in a back-room annex crawling with venomous vipers and an escaped Komodo dragon. A storm drain pits sixth-grade monster hunters against a swarm of sharp-clawed Pukwudgies.
Featuring some of the best writers around, and compiled by certified guy Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Thriller is a pulse-pounding collection of brand-new short stories, each one guaranteed to keep you riveted until the final page.
- Action Adventure: Walter Dean Myers takes fourteen-year-old Abdullah aboard a hijacked luxury yacht, where an armed standoff puts lives on the line.
- Spooky Stories: Ten-year-old Kyle Jennings orders a pair of vintage Ghost Vision Glasses that reveal terrifying spirits haunting the waters of Lake Lenore, in Patrick Carman’s tale.
- Adventure Stories: Anthony Horowitz lands young Nick Diamond and his bumbling detective brother on a North London rooftop, dangling from a flagpole twelve stories up with police sirens closing in.
- Unlikely Hero: Seventh-grader Benny Garcia is dropped into an urban puzzle, courtesy of Matt de la Peña, when an impossible sketch taped to his bedroom wall begins granting wishes across Brooklyn.
- Also by This Author: Guys Read: Funny Business, Guys Read: The Sports Pages and Guys Read: Other Worlds.
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Jon Scieszka is the National Ambassador for Children's Literature emeritus and the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books for kids, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, Robot Zot!, and the Time Warp Trio series. Jon founded Guys Read to encourage a passion for reading among young boys, with the philosophy that boys love to read most when they are reading things they love. A former elementary school teacher, Jon lives in Brooklyn with his family. For more great books, more great facts, and more about your favorite authors, head over to www.guysread.com. You'll be glad you did.
Brett Helquist's celebrated art has graced books from the charming Bedtime for Bear, which he also wrote, to the New York Times–bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to the glorious picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
