(3) 1-3 Eerie Elementary series. Illustrated by Matt Loveridge. In Canceled, a planned demolition of Eerie Elementary could spread the spirit Orson Eerie's power through the whole town. In Fired, the school's resident ghost gets the hall-monitor protagonists fired from their duties in an attempt to devour students at the Kickball Showdown. Mild frights abound in these seventh and eighth installments; the creepy atmosphere is bolstered by black-and-white illustrations throughout. Review covers these Eerie Elementary titles: Classes Are Canceled! and The Hall Monitors Are Fired!.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(3) 1-3 Eerie Elementary series. Illustrated by Matt Loveridge. In Canceled, a planned demolition of Eerie Elementary could spread the spirit Orson Eerie's power through the whole town. In Fired, the school's resident ghost gets the hall-monitor protagonists fired from their duties in an attempt to devour students at the Kickball Showdown. Mild frights abound in these seventh and eighth installments; the creepy atmosphere is bolstered by black-and-white illustrations throughout. Review covers these Eerie Elementary titles: Classes Are Canceled! and The Hall Monitors Are Fired!.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(4) 1-3 Looniverse series. Illustrated by Matt Loveridge. Ed and his friends win a playwriting contest, but when it comes time to perform, Ed realizes it's a big mistake. Ever since he acquired a magic coin (in the first volume), bizarre, inexplicable things occur; now, with a rare blue moon approaching, things get stranger still. Events are not very logical in this wacky, fast-paced chapter book. Black-and-white illustrations are appropriately offbeat.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley

(4) 1-3 Looniverse series. Illustrated by Matt Loveridge. Ever since Ed was given a strange coin, bizarre things have been happening. In these outings, pigs appear in his kitchen, weather changes drastically, and a blue dinosaur follows him home. Ed and the neighborhood kids must embrace the strangeness to get out of each mess. The kooky, lightweight chapter books for freshly independent readers include fittingly offbeat illustrations. Review covers these Looniverse titles: Dinosaur Disaster and Meltdown Madness.

Reviewer: Kari Allen

(4) 1-3 Looniverse series. Illustrated by Matt Loveridge. Ever since Ed was given a strange coin, bizarre things have been happening. In these outings, pigs appear in his kitchen, weather changes drastically, and a blue dinosaur follows him home. Ed and the neighborhood kids must embrace the strangeness to get out of each mess. The kooky, lightweight chapter books for freshly independent readers include fittingly offbeat illustrations. Review covers these Looniverse titles: Dinosaur Disaster and Meltdown Madness.

Reviewer: Kari Allen

(4) 1-3 Looniverse series. Illustrated by Matt Loveridge. Ed is a normal third grader until the day he finds a strange coin in his lawn with "Strange, Stranger" imprinted on it. Suddenly people start acting stranger than usual toward him and weird occurrences pile up. While light on actual plot aside from these strangenesses, the eccentric bizarro-world setting, brought to life by illustrator Loveridge, may draw readers.

Reviewer: Margaret Nell Becker