Del Norte Public Library

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory, and to buying the minibike he's always wanted. But Alan won't let him win that easily...

A child learns a lesson from eating a wormy and rotten apple.

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

Roly Poly, Inchworm, Dragonfly, and Beetle all feel bored one sleepy afternoon, until Roly suggests they go to the wishing well to wish for something to do.

"One day, when the gang goes to the beach, Barry and Pancakes lose Blue's beloved beach ball. They come up with a plan to get it back, but things go way off course. Now, these pals will have to go inside a giant whale's stomach, crash a pool party on an alien spaceship, and survive Duckzilla's volcanic birthday bash if they ever hope to see Blue's beach ball again!" --Amazon.

Alexander and his new friend, Rip, are worried that the worms the rain has brought out are really the megaworms that Notebook of Doom describes but they soon discover that the night crawlers are trying to warn them about the monster tunnel fish that are threatening Stermont Elementary.

When Andrew and Judy, still the size of beetles, are carried into a cave, they learn more than they ever wanted to know about the bats and bugs that live there from Thudd the Robot--and personal experience.

Follows best friends Snail and Worm through three adventures involving how one defines a good day, an encounter with a dragon, and storytelling.

Life is miserable for sixth grader Lerner Chanse at her new school. It looks like Lerner is sedtined to be a SLUG (Sorry Losers Under Ground) until she finds a magical worm that eats printed words instead of dirt. If Fip eats a word, that item simply disappears fromt he world - forever. Now that Lerner knows about Fip's magic, she has some big decisions to make. Should she eliminate crime? Or will destorying anything cause effects that she can't imagine...