When Bella's dog bumps Bella and Ben off the page, they land in the wrong book.

They're troubling. They're bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They're Weird Stories Gone Wrong.
Here are two spectacularly spooky stories from acclaimed children's author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies and mysterious monsters in the dark.
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Jake and the Giant Hand
Jake doesn't really believe a giant's hand was found in a field near his grandfather's...

Don't do what they do! DC's super-villains and super heroes join forces to illustrate bad and good choices for young super hero fans.

Mosca Mye and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man, Eponymous Clent. Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. Mosca Mye's father insisted on teaching her to read - even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye has died,...

When a magician accidentally uses the wrong book to make pancakes, his children are led on a merry chase through town trying to catch their wiggly, sneaky breakfast.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The 10X Rule and If You're Not First, You're Last comes an in-your-face wake-up call for anyone truly ready for success. We're in the middle of an epidemic of average. So-called "normal" people get up every day, go to work, do what's asked of them, leave promptly at 5, and return home to sit on the couch and watch TV. Society tells us that this is what it means to lead a balanced life. Don't stress too...

"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes...

Overview: The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do-the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our...

"When unbeatable attorney David Sloane agrees to help Beverly Ford sue the United States government in the mysterious death of her husband in Iraq, he confronts the biggest challenge of his career. With little hard evidence to go on, Sloane tracks down the other men serving with Ford the night he dies. Alarmingly, two of them returned home alive, but didn't stay that way for long. The elusive final - and youngest - soldier is his only shot at discovering...

Wrong Job -- Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his isolated mountain home. But her bright hopes for the future are shattered when Donald White disappears, leaving her to face charges of theft, embezzlement ; and a brutal double murder. Her protestations of innocence count for nothing. Convicted, she faces life in prison ; until fate sends her on the run. Wrong Name -- Evie's escape leaves her scarred...