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The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked. Includes vocabulary notes in the margin, a brief biography of the author, and instructions for making a hand puppet.

Britney Crosby encounters an old ventriloquist's dummy with a lively secret - and a wicked plan. Soon afterwards she receives an invitation to an amusement park where all is not as it seems. Who - or what - is summoning kids to HorrorLand? Britney and her friends must find out fast - or remain trapped forever in the scariest place on Earth!

A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives.

The adventures of the wooden puppet boy whose nose grew whenever he told a lie.

Unable to help himself, Cookie Monster eats the cake he'd baked to serve at his birthday party, but his friends come through with appropriate presents so all the guests can be fed.

Britney battles against her cousin's new ventriloquist dummy and discovers a frightening secret in a new amusement park called HorrorLand.

Because he wants his mother to continue reading to him at bedtime Grover is reluctant to tell her that he knows how to read.