Overview

After sleeping off his adventure battling the evil Nightcrawlers, Speed Bump joins Slingshot on a quest to earn their Scavenger Hunt badge. Once they complete their last challenge, they'll no longer be Bird Scouts-they'll be Eagle Scouts! But, as is always the case with these two birds, their adventure turns into a misadventure when they end up at a shopping mall-fun by day, scary by night! Trapped inside, what crazy scheme will they come up with to get out? Here's the much-anticipated second book in this fun chapter book series. A Christy Ottaviano Book

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Night of the Living Shadows Overall a lighter-than-air escapade with just a light wash of satire. --Kirkus Reviews This misadventure from a bird's perspective is hilarious, light, and clever and may provide fun reading and anew favorite. --Children's LiteratureNight of the Living Worms: An Amazon Editor's Top Pick for Best Book of the Month Both [pictures and text] are liberally festooned with gags, sight gags, . . . and puns. --Kirkus Reviews Coverly's drawings are full of visual jokes, and the narrative is packed with playful language. . . .Clever, imaginative, and precisely targeted to its audience, this new series is sure to please. --Booklist Filled with subtle irony, wordplay, and gentle pokes at life, the text is accompanied by appealingly large, cartoon-style, black-and-white line drawings. VERDICT This story will have students laughing out loud and reluctant readers asking for the sequel. --School Library Journal Overall a lighter-than-air escapade with just a light wash of satire. --Kirkus ReviewsNight of the Living Worms: An Amazon Editor's Top Pick for Best Book of the Month Both [pictures and text] are liberally festooned with gags, sight gags, . . . and puns. --Kirkus Reviews Coverly's drawings are full of visual jokes, and the narrative is packed with playful language. . . .Clever, imaginative, and precisely targeted to its audience, this new series is sure to please. --Booklist Filled with subtle irony, wordplay, and gentle pokes at life, the text is accompanied by appealingly large, cartoon-style, black-and-white line drawings. VERDICT This story will have students laughing out loud and reluctant readers asking for the sequel. --School Library Journal

Night of the Living Shadows: Overall a lighter-than-air escapade with just a light wash of satire. --Kirkus Reviews This misadventure from a bird's perspective is hilarious, light, and clever and may provide fun reading and anew favorite. --Children's Literature Night of the Living Worms: Both [pictures and text] are liberally festooned with gags, sight gags, . . . and puns. --Kirkus Reviews Coverly's drawings are full of visual jokes, and the narrative is packed with playful language. . . .Clever, imaginative, and precisely targeted to its audience, this new series is sure to please. --Booklist Filled with subtle irony, wordplay, and gentle pokes at life, the text is accompanied by appealingly large, cartoon-style, black-and-white line drawings. VERDICT This story will have students laughing out loud and reluctant readers asking for the sequel. --School Library Journal

Night of the Living Shadows Overall a lighter-than-air escapade with just a light wash of satire. --Kirkus Reviews This misadventure from a bird's perspective is hilarious, light, and clever and may provide fun reading and anew favorite. --Children's LiteratureNight of the Living Worms: Both [pictures and text] are liberally festooned with gags, sight gags, . . . and puns. --Kirkus Reviews Coverly's drawings are full of visual jokes, and the narrative is packed with playful language. . . .Clever, imaginative, and precisely targeted to its audience, this new series is sure to please. --Booklist Filled with subtle irony, wordplay, and gentle pokes at life, the text is accompanied by appealingly large, cartoon-style, black-and-white line drawings. VERDICT This story will have students laughing out loud and reluctant readers asking for the sequel. --School Library Journal Overall a lighter-than-air escapade with just a light wash of satire. --Kirkus ReviewsNight of the Living Worms: An Amazon Editor's Top Pick for Best Book of the Month Both [pictures and text] are liberally festooned with gags, sight gags, . . . and puns. --Kirkus Reviews Coverly's drawings are full of visual jokes, and the narrative is packed with playful language. . . .Clever, imaginative, and precisely targeted to its audience, this new series is sure to please. --Booklist Filled with subtle irony, wordplay, and gentle pokes at life, the text is accompanied by appealingly large, cartoon-style, black-and-white line drawings. VERDICT This story will have students laughing out loud and reluctant readers asking for the sequel. --School Library Journal

Overall a lighter-than-air escapade with just a light wash of satire. --Kirkus ReviewsNight of the Living Worms: An Amazon Editor's Top Pick for Best Book of the Month Both [pictures and text] are liberally festooned with gags, sight gags, . . . and puns. --Kirkus Reviews Coverly's drawings are full of visual jokes, and the narrative is packed with playful language. . . .Clever, imaginative, and precisely targeted to its audience, this new series is sure to please. --Booklist Filled with subtle irony, wordplay, and gentle pokes at life, the text is accompanied by appealingly large, cartoon-style, black-and-white line drawings. VERDICT This story will have students laughing out loud and reluctant readers asking for the sequel. --School Library Journal

"Night of the Living Shadows: Overall a lighter-than-air escapade with just a light wash of satire. --Kirkus Reviews ""This misadventure from a bird's perspective is hilarious, light, and clever and may provide fun reading and anew favorite."" --Children's Literature Night of the Living Worms: Both [pictures and text] are liberally festooned with gags, sight gags, . . . and puns. --Kirkus Reviews ""Coverly's drawings are full of visual jokes, and the narrative is packed with playful language. . . .Clever, imaginative, and precisely targeted to its audience, this new series is sure to please."" --Booklist Filled with subtle irony, wordplay, and gentle pokes at life, the text is accompanied by appealingly large, cartoon-style, black-and-white line drawings. VERDICT This story will have students laughing out loud and reluctant readers asking for the sequel. --School Library Journal"

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Dave Coverly is an internationally syndicated cartoonist whose Speed Bump cartoon panel appears in more than 400 newspapers. He is the creator of Dogs Are People, Too and Night of the Living Worms, as well as the illustrator of Sue MacDonald Had a Book and The Very Inappropriate Word. The winner of the prestigious Reuben Award for Best Cartoonist, Dave lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. See his work at speedbump.com

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