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Strangely Bumptious and the Ghosts of Crypts Academy

By Mark Russell

Ghosts! Spies! Nausea!!! Award-winning author Mark Russell brings us a rollicking ghost story with an endearing protagonist, where the sick kids win the day.

Strangely Bumptious has a problem. There’s a ghost in his closet named Frank. And Frank wants to recruit Strangely to be a Spook for the Ghost Intelligence Agency (G.I.A.) because he has a rare gift. He can turn into a ghost!

Always off balance and nauseous with Meniere’s Disease, Strangely relishes the moments he’s out of his sick body, as a ghost with no ‘tippy’ symptoms. But to be a certified Spook Agent, Strangely has to complete his first mission. He must stop the evil ghost Dr. Dubsdread from haunting his new school, Crypts Academy. To do this, Strangely must find the lost bones of a 200-year-old ghost named Lizzie, and return them to the crypt.

Together with his new friend Waver Standing, Strangely races against the clock (slowly, of course, so as not to get the tippies) to find Lizzie’s bones before Dr. Dubsdread attacks the Halloween Dance and closes Crypts Academy forever.

Not to mention the whole fabric of reality unraveling.

No pressure.

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April

April 4 – Author Abbi Lee (Geocache Club Series) will participate in the Local Author Fair @ Mulvane Public Library, Mulvane, KS

April 9-11 – CSB will have a booth and presentations at the Great Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati, OH.

April 11 – Author Carol Paur (Rowley Peters and the Lumberjack Ghost)will be at the Bishop Hill Book Fair in Bishop Hill, IL

April 17-18 – CSB will have a booth at the Montana Homeschool Conference in Helena, MT.

April 17-18 – CSB and author Abbi Lee (Geocache Club Series) will have a booth at the Kansas Homeschool Expo in Park City, KS.

April 19 – Author Mindy Baker (Soledad and the Curse of the Phoenix) will be participating in the Hamilton East Public Library Local Authors Fair in Noblesville, IN.

April 24 – Author Alyssa Wilkinson (Unlucky Charm Summer) is doing a school visit at River Ridge Elementary in Duncan, South Carolina.

April 25 – Author Carol Paur (Rowley Peters and the Lumberjack Ghost) will have a book signing at The Novel Spot Bookstore in Pecatonica, IL

April 25 – Author Abbi Lee (Geocache Club Series) will participate in the Author Table at Rose Hill Library, Rose Hill, KS

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