Aunt Eater the anteater is off to a costume party, and it's a good thing she's dressed as a detective -- Halloween is the most mysterious night of the year! Man-eating monsters, headless ghosts, and other eerie encounters await Aunt Eater. With so many spooky surprises in stores, can the super sleuth handle them all?

On Halloween night, monsters, from hairy werewolves on the moors to scaly swamp creatures in a black lagoon, say good night to their mommies and daddies.

CenterFour Aunt Eater Mysteries! A stolen traveling bag . . . A mysterious black shadow on the wall . . . A thief next door . . . A disappearing cat . . . Don't worry, Aunt Eater is on the case.

From the master of beginning reader mysteries, Doug Cushman, comes the second adventure of ace reporter Dirk Bones—and the mystery is as silly and spooky as ever!

The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage first and second graders to read independently. The book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Each lesson contains bibliographic information plus setting, characters, plot, solution, and book summary. Activities for the media specialist to provide schema, prediction, fluency, and information literacy skill instruction is provided as well. Teacher activities included address phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and the comprehension strategies of recall, inference, and synthesis. Each book section also features a parent take-home page of extension/enrichment ideas.

"My name is Seymour Sleuth. I am the greatest detective in the world." Travel to Egypt with the famous wombat detective Seymour Sleuth, and his able assistant, Abbott Muggs, to solve the baffling case of the missing Stone Chicken of King Karfu. Follow along in Seymour's fascinating casebook as they interview suspects, uncover clues, and catch the culprit after a high-speed camel chase across the desert. But the case isn't over yet! Decipher the secret code and discover the ancient Lost Treasure to bring the case to a deliciously satisfying close.

Amazing Tigers! is the first paperback edition in our exciting series of nonfiction I Can Read Books filled with amazing photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society, one of the world's oldest and most respected wildlife conservation organizations.