Michael Dahl

Eli is a young stowaway on a ship bound for North America. A strange birthmark on his arm, in the shape of a dragon, begins to sting. Then he meets a sailor on the ship with a dragon tattoo. The tattoo, and a weird cargo hidden on the ship, hold the secret to Eli's real identity.

Photographs and simple text introduce verbs, words used in sentences to represent an action or state of being.

Taj has discovered that he's growing wings. He straps them down to hide them, and seeks help from his cousin, the only person he can trust. But Taj learns that his cousin has a secret, too.

The Page Turners, two powerful books from the Library of Doom, have fallen into the hands of an evil magician. He turns the books into two terrible tornadoes, to destroy the Librarian. But when the twisters suddenly head toward a small village, the Librarian must risk his life to stop them.

Illustrations and simple text introduce adverbs, words used in sentences to modify or describe adjectives, verbs or other adverbs.

Carr is looking for a tooth, but not an ordinary tooth, a dragon's fang. In his search, he hears that these fangs can be found on Snair Island.

Andy, the new kid at school, has a tattoo on his arm that resembles Lizzie, the school's most popular girl, and he also has one really big secret.

The death of Odin's beloved son, Baldur, heralds the end of all creation but also a new beginning. But before life can begin again, all must die including the gods and goddesses themselves and in a battle of epic proportions, Loki and his sons, Surtur, and the giants wage war on the Viking gods. With the fate of the known world hanging in the balance, all bets are off but one thing is certain: death is not the end, and the end is just the beginning....

Combines two stories also published separately, Out the rear window and To catch a ghost, in which Charlie Hitchcock and Tyler Yu investigate mysteries at the Abracadabra Hotel.

When Charlie Hitchcock, the smartest kid at school, gets a note from the school bully, Tyler Yu, demanding a meeting he fears the worst--but it turns out that Tyler wants him to solve the mystery of the missing magician at the Abracadabra Hotel.