Bøger af Christine Collier

Tyler Martin loves to take something old or broken and reinvent it. He turns a backyard building into, Shed Stuff, to house recyclables for their neighborhood. Tyler visits the Recycling Center so often he's given the nickname, That Recycling Kid. When he discovers a brand new Smartphone in his cell phone bin, he's amazed! But soon after, rats start to invade his containers. Will his plan to drive them away work, before his mother, an annoyed sister, and an angry neighbor find out? His best friend, Luke, helps with many of his adventures. Another friend, Tia Raymond, writes a funny poem for Tyler. She loves the teen group, One Direction and UGG boots. Tia asks Tyler to collect expired credit and gift cards so she can transform them into craft projects for a cheerleading fund raiser. This book is packed with humor, mystery, and fun ideas for middle graders and tweens. They include making homemade quicksand, a soup can telephone, guitar picks, bracelets, and how to lift fingerprints and much more.

Ryder Parker receives a late birthday gift from his grandmother, a robot named Mr. Bot! It's over two feet tall, has a silver digital touchpad that's activated by light and sound with four command modes. Mr. Bot has many funny adventures at the Parker household. One involves being trapped in Ryder's bedroom closet while a woodpecker pounds on the roof. This pecking and tapping makes the motion sensitive light come on over and over again. Another time, Ryder recreates an amazing event, exactly as it first happened, hoping for the same results. A manual included with the robot has a question and answer page. Are they true facts or simply jokes? One answer states that Mr. Bot loves to speed walk to steep places. It includes a warning that the robot should never visit the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls! Can a robot walk in its sleep, wink, or burp? Ryder must discover the answers for himself. His sister, Molly, not only has a trick candle on her birthday cake, but receives a surprise that makes their entire family happy, including Mr. Bot!

The six romances included in this anthology have quirky characters, or quirky locations, or quirky situations. You'll find a ghost and a new homeowner, a spaceship captain and her cartographer, a window designer and high school beau, a banker and a baker, two vampire hunters, and some supernatural beings. You'll find yourself in two different restaurants, and on another planet. You'll find deception, intrigue, and old memories. You'll find Happily-Ever-Afters, and you'll find Happy-for-Nows.But most of all, you'll find true romance. You'll find kisses, and you'll find promises.