Notebook of Doom #8: Charge of the Lightning Bugs

Stermont's latest monster is SHOCKING!

It is the first day of the brand-new Stermont Elementary School, but everything electrical seems to be going haywire. Lights are flickering, students are getting zapped, and escalators are running at super-speeds! It looks like strange green lightning bugs are draining off the power - but when they see green lightning in a clear blue sky Alexander, Rip, and Nikki know there must be a monster involved.

Can the S.S.M.P. turn out the lights on these shocking monsters?"

This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!

Troy Cummings has been drawing since he was a little kid. His illustrations have appeared in newspapers and magazines, on websites, on frozen-fish-stick packages, and in hospital waiting rooms. He has published the picture books The Eensy Weensy Spider Freaks Out!, More Bears! and Giddy-Up, Daddy! The Notebook of Doom is his first early chapter book series. He lives in Indiana with his cat and family.

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