Summer is here, and Zac Wiles and the Benton Bluff Junior High band are headed to band camp. But as soon as they arrive, things start disappearing. First it's music, then it's Zac's saxophone. As the band's resident class clown, Zac's antics always earn a few eye rolls. But now, he's being called a thief! Can Zac find the culprit and prove he'd never take his jokes that far? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Davis Beadle has a theory. You look like your instrument. And trumpets? Trumpets are cool. But when he and his best friend Yulia join the Benton Bluff Junior High band, the trumpet section is full! Sent to shadow other band members and try new instruments, Davis forms a plan to stick with trumpet. But will something else stick instead? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Kori Neal loves vintage. But when Jack Cassilly III slides into the band room with his brand-new, sparkling trombone in hand and his nose in the air, Kori's school-loaner seems less shiny than ever. With the help of a famous local jazz musician, can Kori see past the scuffs and dents? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Hope James is going to get first chair. Her older sister did it. Her mom expects it. Then Sherman Frye moves to town. Hope's best friend, ace reporter Baylor Meece, gets the scoop. At his old school, Sherman was amazing. At Benton Bluff Junior High, he has to be stopped. Because first chair is everything. Isn't it? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Each week, the writers of The A.V. Club issue a slightly slanted pop-culture list filled with challenging opinions (Is David Bowie's "Young Americans" nearly ruined by saxophone?) and fascinating facts. Exploring twenty-four great films too painful to watch twice, fourteen tragic movie-masturbation scenes, eighteen songs about crappy cities, and much more, Inventory combines a massive helping of new lists created especially for the book with a few favorites first seen at AVClub.com and in the pages of The A.V. Club’s sister publication, The Onion. But wait! There's more: John Hodgman offers a set of minutely detailed (and probably fictional) character actors. Patton Oswalt waxes ecstatic about the "quiet film revolutions" that changed cinema in small but exciting ways. Amy Sedaris lists fifty things that make her laugh. "Weird Al" Yankovic examines the noises of Mad magazine's Don Martin. Plus lists from Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Ben Garant, Tom Lennon, Andrew W.K., Tim and Eric, Daniel Handler, and Zach Galifianakis—and an epic foreword from essayist Chuck Klosterman.

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This special three-book bundle contains all three novel’s in Jack Batten’s Crang series. Acclaimed Jack Batten is one of Canada’s foremost crime fiction experts, and it shows in this entertaining and relentlessly witty series about the exploits of a hard-living, vodka- and jazz-loving criminal lawyer who deals with both the lives of the rich and the down-and-out on the streets and in the mansions of Canada’s largest city. Includes Crang Plays the Ace Straight No Chaser Take Five