Sir John Hargrave's Mischief Maker's Manual

Sir John Hargrave's Mischief Maker's Manual
Author: John Hargrave
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1101486023

This is the definitive guide to pranking and mayhem. Written in the style of a training manual, but with hilarious illustrations, this book is broken up into five sections. The “Basics” shows kids how to find a pranking partner and how to pull simple pranks like making crank calls. “Prank Moves” explains how to pull pranks at places like home, school, or camp. “Do-It-Yourself” demonstrates things like putting a real worm inside an ice cube. “Experts Only” covers such advanced pranks as how to fake an alien landing. And “Recipes” gives step-by-step instructions on how to bake tuna cookies.

Mind Hacking

Mind Hacking
Author: John Hargrave
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1501105663

Presents a twenty-one-day, three-step training program to achieve healthier thought patterns for a better quality of life by using the repetitive steps of analyzing, imagining, and reprogramming to help break down the barriers, including negative thought loops and mental roadblocks.

Prank the Monkey

Prank the Monkey
Author: John Hargrave
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0806527803

No-one is safe from super-prankster John Hargrave! Everyone is fair (and hilarious) game, from major corporations to internet spammers; from celebrities to government figures. Action-packed and rammed with laughs, Prank the Monkey follows John as he dishes out revenge on the world's biggest and most deserving targets, exposing them for the chumps they really are - and showing readers how to do the same!

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart
Author: Mona Kerby
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1992-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1101174331

As a child, Amelia Earhart wondered why there were no heroines in her favorite adventure stories. She resolved to change that when she grew up. And so she did, becoming one of the pioneers of aviation. Not only was Amelia the first woman in the world to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, she was the first person to cross it twice. Her life became a great adventure story--and a mystery, too. In 1937, on an around-the-world flight, Amelia disappeared. Today, Amelia's courage and spirit remain an inspiration to everyone who flies or dreams of adventure.

Fibble: The Fourth Circle of Heck

Fibble: The Fourth Circle of Heck
Author: Dale E. Basye
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375893059

With more dark humor and zany silliness, Dale E. Basye returns to Heck for his most over-the-top (the Big Top, that is) adventure yet. When Marlo Fauster claims she has switched souls with her brother, she gets sent straight to Fibble, the circle of Heck reserved for liars. But it's true—Milton and Marlo have switched places, and Marlo finds herself trapped in Milton's gross, gangly body. She also finds herself trapped in Fibble, a three-ring media circus run by none other than P. T. Barnum, an insane ringmaster with grandiose plans and giant, flaming pants. Meanwhile Milton, as Marlo, is working at the devil's new television network, T.H.E.E.N.D. But there's something strange about these new shows. Why do they all air at the same? And are they really broadcasting to the Surface? Soon Milton and Marlo realize that they need each other to sort through the lies and possibly prevent the end of the world—if Bea "Elsa" Bubb doesn't catch them first.

Stink it Up!

Stink it Up!
Author: Megan McDonald
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763659428

A treasury of nose-wrinkling facts, quizzes, recipes and trivia includes entries about how a group of skunks is called a "stench," how snail slime was once an ingredient in cough syrup and more. Original.

The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook

The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook
Author: Eleanor Davis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2011-07-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1599908956

Super-smart Julian Calendar thinks starting junior high at a new school will mean he can shed his nerdy image-but then he meets Ben and Greta, two secret scientists like himself! The three form a secret club, complete with a high-tech lair. There, they can work to their hearts content on projects like the Stink-O-Meter, the Kablovsky Copter, and the Nightsneak Goggles. All that tinkering comes in handy when the trio discovers an evil scientist's dastardly plan to rob a museum. Can three inventors, armed with their wacky creations, hope to defeat this criminal mastermind?

Unbored

Unbored
Author: Joshua Glenn
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1408830256

Unbored is the book every modern child needs. Brilliantly walking the line between cool and constructive, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable but that also get kids standing on their own two feet. If you're a kid, you can: -- Build a tipi or an igloo -- Learn to knit -- Take stuff apart and fix it -- Find out how to be constructively critical -- Film a stop-action movie or edit your own music -- Do parkour like James Bond -- Make a little house for a mouse from lollipop sticks -- Be independent! Catch a bus solo or cook yourself lunch -- Make a fake exhaust for your bike so it sounds like you're revving up a motorcycle -- Design a board game -- Go camping (or glamping) -- Plan a road trip -- Get proactive and support the causes you care about -- Develop your taste and decorate your own room -- Make a rocket from a coke bottle -- Play farting games There are gross facts and fascinating stories, reports on what stuff is like (home schooling, working in an office...), Q&As with inspiring grown-ups, extracts from classic novels, lists of useful resources and best ever lists like the top clean rap songs, stop-motion movies or books about rebellion. Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to use those tech skills to be creative, try new things and change the world. And it gets parents to join in. Unbored is fully illustrated, easy to use and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humour. Kids will just think it's brilliant.

How to Be Idle

How to Be Idle
Author: Tom Hodgkinson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 006231341X

Yearning for a life of leisure? In 24 chapters representing each hour of a typical working day, this book will coax out the loafer in even the most diligent and schedule-obsessed worker. From the founding editor of the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, The Idler, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new, universal standard of living: being happy doing nothing. He covers a whole spectrum of issues affecting the modern idler—sleep, work, pleasure, relationships—bemoaning the cultural skepticism of idleness while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Johnson, and Nietzsche—all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed. It’s a well-known fact that Europeans spend fewer hours at work a week than Americans. So it’s only befitting that one of them—the very clever, extremely engaging, and quite hilarious Tom Hodgkinson—should have the wittiest and most useful insights into the fun and nature of being idle. Following on the quirky, call-to-arms heels of the bestselling Eat, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss, How to Be Idle rallies us to an equally just and no less worthy cause: reclaiming our right to be idle.