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13th Street #1: Battle of the Bad-Breath Bats

By David Bowles & Shane Clester
13th Street #1: Battle of the Bad-Breath Bats by David Bowles & Shane Clester digital book - Fable

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A new silly and spooky highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book. It's a Halloween chapter book treat!

Cousins Malia, Ivan, and Dante are visiting their aunt Lucy for the summer. But on their way to Gulf City’s water park, they get lost on 13th Street. Only it’s not a street at all. It’s a strange world filled with dangerous beasts! Will the cousins find their way back to Aunt Lucy’s?

Each story in this hilarious and scary new series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success—with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

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4.5
“Reviewing an ARC from Harper Chapters. My 8 year old nephew will freakin love this. It's about kids, who battle bats, whose weapon is bad breath. What's not to like? Since it's the introductory volume of a series, some of the book is about setting up the characters and location. That's done fairly efficiently and then they're off to the races. It's a quick story, but the kids are all quite different from each other. So it's entertaining to see them interact. The action is a good balance of scary and silly. And there's plenty of mystery set up for future volumes. Harper Chapters also has their eye on formatting the books to encourage new chapter book readers. In particular (I think) readers who may be struggling. There's a progress bar at the end of every chapter, 4th wall breaking encouragement from characters and a page of metrics at the end. Apparently this book has 5118 words. I think for some kids this may foster feelings of accomplishment. (I, for one, do love checking off a task finished.) I do fear others might "know what you're up to" and feel patronized. So the lesson here would be know the reader you are buying for. If these features work for them, I suspect they will work well.”

About David Bowles

David Bowles is the award-winning Mexican American author of They Call Me Guero and other titles for young readers. Because of his family’s roots in Mexico, he’s traveled all over that country studying creepy legends, exploring ancient ruins, and avoiding monsters (so far). He lives in Donna, Texas.

Shane Clester

Largely self taught, Shane has been a professional illustrator since 2005. Initially working in comics and storyboards, Shane has transitioned to his real passion—children’s books—even self-publishing several of his own. Shane currently lives in Florida with his wonderful wife and their two tots. When not illustrating, he can usually be found by his in-laws' pool. 

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