Barnett, Mac

As soon as twelve-year-old Steve Brixton opens a detective office in his backyard, he and his best friend Dana are caught up in a tangle of cases, from breaking up a ring of piratical smugglers, to recovering a stolen surfboard, to tracking down a fifth-grader's missing gym shorts.

Inside these 4 books you will find speeding trains, secret agents, stolen diamonds and much more. Oh, and Steve Brixton, the greatest kid detective of the twenty-first century.

"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world . . . poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is an . . . exploration of where the best questions lead--to stories . . . [an] invitation to speculate without limits and know no bounds"--Provided by publisher.

"When a mouse is swallowed by a wolf, he learns that a duck devoured earlier has set up a table to enjoy the food the gluttonous predator eats"--OCLC.

Three clever billy goats outwit a big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way to a greener hillside.

To escape a burning building, Zapfino must confront the fears that forced him out of the circus.

A boy sets out to find someone to answer a question that he asks his grandmother, and eventually his quest leads him back home.

In this celebration of individuality, John finds the courage to show others his talent for dancing during his school's Sharing Gifts time.

"Something terrible is happening in the skies! Rats are eating the MOON! There's only ONE hero for the job, a bold and fearsome beast bioengineered in a secret lab to be the moon's savior and Earth's last hope! And that hero is--a cat. A cat who will be blasted into space! Accompanied by the imperious Moon Queen and LOZ 4000, a toenail clipping robot, the First Cat in Space journeys across a fantastic lunar landscape in a quest to save the world. Will these unlikely heroes save the moon in time? Can a toenail-clipping robot find its purpose in the vast universe? And will the First Cat in Space ever eat some pizza?"--Provided by publisher.