Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a budding spy, what better way to conceal your clandestine activities than to miniaturize your secret agent arsenal? Hide a mini catapult in a breath mint tin. Turn a Tic Tac case into vest-pocket candy shooter. Or transform a milk jug cap onto a fake wristwatch that launches tiny paper darts. Toy designer and author John Austin provides detailed, step-by-step instructions with diagrams to show James Bondiacs how to build 35 different spy weapons...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For every boy from eight to eighty, covers essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age-old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"UNBORED Games has all the smarts, creativity, and DIY spirit of the original UNBORED ("It's a book! It's a guide! It's a way of life!" --Los Angeles Magazine), but with a laser-like focus on the activities we do for pure fun: to while away a rainy day, to test our skills and stretch our imaginations--games. There are more than seventy games here, 50 of them all new, plus many more recommendations, and they cover the full gambit, from old-fashioned...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
PopularMechanics.com selection for one of The Best DIY and Home Improvement Books of 2009 We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies—binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and (of course) matches and barbeque lighters—troublemakers of all stripes have the components needed to build an...
6) Frendo lives
Author
Series
Clown in a cornfield volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A year after the Kettle Springs massacre, Quinn and her friends Rust and Cole become the focus of online conspiracy theories that recast them as villains rather than victims.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know--and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers--although that's included, of course! Whether readers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A follow-up to The Daring Book for Girls contains an original selection of challenges often attributed to male sports or other cultures, in a volume that features introductory guidelines on a range of ideas from learning how to surf and staging April Fools Day pranks to making a labyrinth and understanding the art of the Japanese tea ceremony.
Author
Language
English
Description
Dazzle your friends with the old exploding volcano trick, then slyly ease an egg into a bottle. Or you can really get cooking by slipping fortunes into a batch of cookies and folding them like a pro. From taking funny fake photos to breeding butterflies, from running a ninja obstacle course to reading minds to, yes, whipping up some edible fake barf, here is the source for learning how to do absolutely everything. With minimal text and maximal humor,...
10) Escape!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best friends Hendrix, Kane, Raymon, and Ander team up on a televised escape room competition, but when tensions run high and confrontations occur, more than the prize money is at risk.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Readers of Cool Careers In Science will discover ten cutting-edge science, technology, and engineering careers, and dozens of sub-specialties and will also learn why these careers are some of the most exciting, best paying, and fastest growing occupations in the world"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Unbored is the most original, entertaining, and instructive all-in-one book for kids ever published--jam-packed with information, ideas, and activities for children and their parents to share together. Vibrantly designed and illustrated, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable, but get kids engaged in the wider world--and provides information to expand their worldviews, too, inspiring them to learn more. Right at the age where...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Barney needs a job and a place to live. Luckily, he finds both in Dead End, a theme park haunted house! Unfortunately, Dead End also serves as a portal to hell. Along with his best friend Norma and talking dog Pugsley, he must battle demonic party poopers, undead country singers and scariest of all: his love life"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It's been weeks since Dead End was destroyed and as it reopens as a hotel, resident tour guide turned hotel manager Norma is determined to leave the ghosts of the past where they belong. But with her friendship with Barney up in the air and angels and demons using the hotel as their literal wrestling ring, Norma soon finds that unwanted ghosts can appear at any moment, especially when they're your own."--Amazon.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Betrayal at House on the Hill continues the tradition of great Avalon Hill games. This horror-themed tile game never plays the same way twice. You build the house tile by tile, room by room using 50 haunting scenarios. During the game, one player becomes the traitor and must be defeated.
Face your terror as it builds-tile by tile. Take a deep breath before you enter. It might be your last. Your fear will grow with each tile you place as you investigate...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Major innovations are around the corner that will transform the entertainment experience from one of observation to one of full immersion of the senses. Researchers are rushing to developing the next generation of theme parks, ultra high definition movies, virtual reality toys and video games, and augmented reality displays which will revolutionize what people see, hear, and feel" --from the publisher.
19) Frightmares
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Come out, come out, wherever you are. Everything at Frightmares House of Horrors is fake: The clow mannequins. The cheap replica Annabelle doll. The zombies played by wannabe actors. But the dead body Dave finds is very, very real. His summer job has become a labryinth of nightmares. Surprises lurk behind every door. And if Dave doesn't open the right one... he'll never get out." -- Back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
Discover new places, new people, new hobbies, and open your eyes to the world. Learn about the stuff they don't teach you in high school, like how to host a film festival, plan your first road trip, make a podcast, spend a day in silence, or shut down a house party before the police do. Interest, amuse and educate yourself--because your life doesn't stop at 3 PM each day, it just gets started.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request