It's phonics! It's comics! It's awesome! Perfect for early and developing readers, each paperback includes three exciting, easy-to-read stories! Exhilarating adventures, daring heroes, magic, time travel and much, much more! Each cool 24-page comic book feature three exciting, phonetically decodable stories. Developed and leveled with the help of reading specialists, these 6" x 9" paperbacks are easy to read and hard to put down! Sara isn't so different from everyone else...or is she? Just ask her friends: Mr. Bones, Ghosty, and Frank. Spooky Surprises and magical mishaps fill this hauntingly funny tale. GRL: M

63 Sara loved growing up in the Mississippi Delta. She loved the people, and living in the country had a peaceful, easy feeling. Being a single parent, her daddy had to raise her. He taught her everything about survival in the Delta. Her serenity was shattered when the Lambert boys came calling. She saw two feet swing off the ground then a shotgun blast. She knew she had to run to save her life. If she could just make it to the train depot, maybe she could escape. As she ran, she could hear the Lambert boys’ hound dogs in the distance. When she got to the train, she tried to get into an open box car, but she was exhausted and too short. As the train started to move, she fell face down in the gravel that ran along the tracks. She heard the hounds getting closer; she screamed, “God please help me!” then someone grabbed her from behind.

For use in schools and libraries only. Uses a comic book format to present three phonics-based stories featuring a girl whose best friends include a ghost, a werewolf, and a monster.

Spooky Sara has a house that is haunted, her family is full of monsters and she just wants to be you friend.

Now that Samantha Sweet has a contract to provide her special handmade chocolates for the wealthy jet-set clients of Book It Travel, Sweet’s Sweets bakery is taking on a whole new dimension. Only problem, Sam isn’t ready. It’s almost Halloween, her pastry shop is bursting at the seams and she needs extra employees but there is no place to put them. Right before the witching day, she comes upon a large Victorian house she can adapt for the business, and it seems her problem is solved. But is it? The mysterious, spooky noises at night are way more than the normal creaks and groans of an old building. Something else is going on and Sam suspects it may be related to her husband’s newest case, investigating where an abandoned duffle bag crammed full of cash came from. Beau is dealing with a greedy reward-seeker, a robbery with no leads, and a waif who appears and vanishes. Sam’s mystery has her watching for ghosts and working almost around the clock. Is she relying on magic?—well, occasionally. “Shelton again has done a superb job in bringing New Mexico to life.” —Albuquerque Journal “Connie Shelton gets better with every book she writes.”—The Midwest Book Review “Just reading about Samantha Sweet and friends at her pastry shop will leave you drooling in anticipation of delicious treats.” Joanne K, 5-star review (Spellbound Sweets in Midnight Mysteries) “The teamwork between Samantha and Beau was a main draw as well as attention to detail, down to the last frosted cookie.” – Janine Thiemann, 5 stars (Spellbound Sweets in Midnight Mysteries)