Jade Hill and Associates are back on the case. Mary Katherine, an eighth grader and most popular girl in the school, who would never ever be seen within twelve yards of a seventh grader (if she hadn't lost Buck Dieter's class ring), hires Jade. Jade is the only seventh grader in Bonaparte with her own detective agency. Then someone puts a spell on Mary Katherine so she's withering away at an alarming rate, and ironically, Samantha, the granddaughter of a notorious Voodoo practitioner, is expanding exponentially and just about to explode. It looks like black magic. It is, after all, beyond the realm of the real world when Jade finds herself hired by 73 dead runaway slaves to catch their murderer. There are tunnels under Jade's house and tea parties with skeletons and all manner of strange goings on, but Jade Hill and Associates are on the case and if the spells can be reversed and the wrongs can be righted, they're the team to make it happen.
Lancelot Weed's teachers look like giant bugs. There are enemy soldiers behind every rock and in every secret hiding place. Surviving involves being brave enough to navigate the complicated labyrinths of the small town and the hundreds of square miles of forest and lakes beyond. For Lancelot Weed, home with a new step-dad is also enemy territory. Dead Man's Hill with Jenny Bolt is paradise. A record snow has made the Christmas war games the stuff of legend. Lancelot can taste victory on the cold crystal air. But then they discover the woman under the ice. Jenny convinces Lancelot that they must save her. To do this they will need to survive fire, snow and ice, and a stalking mountain lion.
Zip, the beautiful fat girl, is back. A freshman in ACCUSED OF MURDER and now a senior, she finds herself pursued by Cain Constable, a hunk who just happens to sideline as a model, and the object of death-texts by Breanne Fredrick, the most popular girl in the school, but to her fury second to Zip in class standing. In her freshman year Zip promised her virginity to Joshua Swift but now Josh is in New York and Zip is in San Francisco and Cain is hot on her trail. Joshua or Cain: how can she choose? Zip does have one additional problem: Cain has a brother just out of prison who has narrowed his homicidal passion to Zip and Zip alone. To get back at his brother he must kill Zip.
Megan Saint is anything but a saint. She smokes when she can get them. Beer had taken some time getting used to. She doesn't do drugs. To make up for that, she overuses the “f” word. A boyfriend would be nice but not many guys want to be seen with her. All told, Megan is a closet rebel. She loves getting in a “little” trouble—the kind of trouble that makes adults think she has “issues.” But then real trouble comes to campus. Megan's just starting her junior year when weird things start to happen. Kids in her English class are dying. Surviving murder, mayhem, and kidnapping are the assignments of the day. To do so Megan teams up with the Hump, a no-neck fat boy who believes he's the reincarnation of Henry the VIII.
Jade Hill and Associates are back on the case. Wilburn Monk is on trial for the murder of Dee Dee Stokes and the agency has been called to give testimony. Darling Fisher, a self-proclaimed vampire, hires them to catch trespassers on his property in the swamp. It appears that the trespassers might be werewolves. Darling also hires a warlock, Lipscomb Montrose, to cause the trespassers' death once the agency has identified them. The problem is that Lipscomb has decided to turn over a new leaf, promising himself he'll never ever break another oath or do bad deeds (warlocks are known for their oath breaking and bad deeds). Now he can't break his oath to himself, which means he must cause the death he'd never intended to, a decidedly bad deed, and oh, it's very complicated, so he hires the agency to solve his conundrum. And then there's Chewy who is accused of putting a softball-sized wad of gum in Sister Paul's wimple and hires them on the recommendation of Mother Superior. But the thing is every time Jade Hill and Associates get three cases at one time really weird stuff happens.
This book has an imaginative plot and a wonderful sense of whimsy. It is fast-paced taking full advantage of the nonsensical opportunities inherent in monster hunts taken on by a little girl and her invisible dog. There are wonderfully eccentric characters: the Brigadier, a 30 foot dog man who wears a chicken suit and plays the accordion, the Bulegars, stone heads on wheels, that tear up the landscape, and mountain range that threatens to destroy the universe. The book is about the trials and tribulations of growing up and accepting one's self. After all, Tess learns, the universe would be rather boring if we were all the same.
Sebastian Heart is living with the Grinch and the Invisible Man. His mother is in the Antarctic and he's pretty sure no one has bothered to buy him a Christmas present. There is a storm of storms on Christmas Eve. A runaway semi shoved the family SUV off the road and down the embankment. Sebastian has to step up to save his brother and dad. He wasn't, however, anticipating having to ride the back of an enraged grizzly.
Tommy's been bad and Christmas is cancelled. His dad is a soldier in Afghanistan. Tommy climbs into his rocket and flies over the ocean to see if his dad can help him save Christmas.
A collection of sayings or 'suzisms' by Suzanne Paul, entrepreneur, known for the product, Natural Glow. Sayings are divided into categories including: Home Truths; Family; Sex and Love and Men.
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