Yikes! It's Alive!

Abracadabra! #6

by Peter Lerangis, Jim Talbot (Illustrations)

Join Max, Jessica, Quincy, and Selena in a hilarious new chapter book series about the adventures and misadventures of an after-school magic and mystery club.

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

About the author

Lerangis's work includes The Viper's Nest and The Sword Thief, two titles in the children's-book series The 39 Clues, the historical novel Smiler's Bones, the YA dark comedy-adventure novel wtf, the Drama Club series, the Spy X series, the Watchers series, the Abracadabra series, and the Antarctica two-book adventure, as well ghostwriting for series such as the Three Investigators, the Hardy Boys Casefiles, Sweet Valley Twins, and more than forty books in the series The Baby-sitters Club and its various spin-offs.[1] He has also written novels based on film screenplays, including The Sixth Sense, Sleepy Hollow, and Beauty and the Beast, and five video game novelizations in the Worlds of Power series created by Seth Godin.[2] As a ghostwriter he has been published under the name A. L. Singer.[3]
Lerangis is the son of a retired New York Telephone Company employee and a retired public-elementary-school secretary, who raised him in Freeport, New York on Long Island. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in biochemistry, while acting in musicals[4] and singing with and musically directing the a cappella group the Harvard Krokodiloes,[5][6] before moving to New York. He worked there as an actor[7] and freelance copy editor for eight years before becoming an author.[8]
In 2003, Lerangis was chosen by First Lady Laura Bush to accompany her to the first Russian Book Festival, hosted by Russian First Lady Lyudmila Putina in Moscow.[9][10]Authors R. L. Stine (Goosebumps) and Marc Brown (the Arthur the Aardvark series) also made the trip with Bush.[9]
Also in 2003, Lerangis was commissioned by the United Kingdom branch of Scholastic to write X-Isle, one of four books that would relaunch the Point Horror series there.[11] A sequel, Return to X-Isle, was published in 2004.
In 2007, Scholastic announced the launch of a new historical mystery series called The 39 Clues, intended to become a franchise.[12] Lerangis wrote the third book in the series, The Sword Thief, published in March 2009.[13][14][15] On March 3, 2009, Scholastic announced that Lerangis would write the seventh book in the series, The Viper's Nest.[14][16]
Lerangis lives in New York City with his wife, musician Tina deVaron, and their sons Nick and Joe.[17]

Reviews

[Rumbdeshkar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cette histoire se passe dans le village de Rébus et il y a un club qui s'appelle le club Abracadabra. L'histoire se commence par un club qui s'appelle le club Abracadabra qui vont dans un musée pour voir les dinosaures qui sont morts. Après, il commence à trouver le mystère du dinosaure qui a bougé. Les personnages du club Abracadabra sont Karl lui qui résout les mystères et très intelligent, Selena est un peu nerveuse et quand elle est nerveuse, joyeuse, furieuse et fatigante, elle se brosse ses cheveux, Max est drôle quand il est nerveux, parce que quand il est nerveux il se trompe de formule et fait un bazar et Jessica est le cerveau du Club Abracadabra. Je trouvais que Max est génial parce qu'il fait des tours de magie et un peu faire disparaître n'importe quoi. Karl est très intelligent et j'aime ça parce qu'il peut faire n'importe quoi avec son intelligence.