Once upon a time there was a boy and a girl who had to tell a fairy tale to the class, but they couldn't agree on the story. Will they all live happily ever after? Once upon a time there was ...a princess ...a cool muscle dude ...who loved all her beautiful ponies. ...who rode an awesome motorcycle. ...But a giant came and started stealing them! ...The dude came to fight the ugly, smelly giant with his mighty sword. ...She turned gold into thread while she cried for Buttercup, her favorite pony. ...And he took the princess's gold thread for payment. The end!...

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What happens when the mightiest of mortals take on the greatest of gods in an apocalyptic basketball showdown? Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, and the rest of the Gods' squad have all the powers of the universe at their disposal-which makes for a deadly defense and an unstoppable offense. But those "pesky Mortals" are always causing trouble, and with hunky Hercules at the top of his game and Achilles' heel healing nicely after his surgery, the Mortals manage to stay alive until halftime. Who knows what mythological magic the Gods will have to conjure up to win this Hellenic heart stopper?

Complete with toga-clad announcers and a halftime report on the wonders of ancient Greece, Kevin O'Malley's Mount Olympus Basketball makes learning about ancient Greek myths more exciting than March Madness....

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Look up in the sky! It's a pterodactyl! It's a Jurassospheric hovercraft! It's.Captain Raptor Hero of the planet Jurassica! Fearless leader of the intrepid crew U.D.S. Megatooth. Whenever trouble rears its ugly head-no matter where in the solar system- Captain Raptor will be there! From the vivid imagination of Kevin O'Malley and the unparalleled talent of Patrick O'Brien comes the first age of dinosaurs in outer space! The twentieth century saw cats in space, pigs in space, and toads in space, but you've never seen nothing like . . . Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery....

You don't think much about your backpack. It's just kind of dirty and crammed with stuff. But wait - did you know the backpack has a history? That it could be a superhero's secret weapon? Or an exploding science experiment? Or even a living creature of immense proportions? Kevin O'Malley has created four surprising comic-book style stories to entertain and amaze backpack wearers everywhere....