The Adventures

Flat Stanley’s Adventures in Classroom 2E #2

Beloved character Flat Stanley is back with a whole new set of friends in this brand-new STEM-focused chapter book series. In this second book, Stanley and his friends learn all about the scientific method, gravity, and friction through a heated contest on the playground!

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Flat Stanley’s Adventures in Classroom 2E #1

Flat Stanley is back with a whole new set of friends in this brand-new STEM-focused chapter book series. In this first book, Stanley’s class gets an adorable class pet, plus a crash course on animal life and engineering!

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Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure!

This is the book that started all of Flat Stanley’s wild adventures! Jeff Brown’s famous story about Flat Stanley, the boy whose flatness allows him to travel by mail, fly like a kite, and catch sneak thieves, has been a favorite for kids across America for more than forty-five years. Jump right in and find out how Stanley first got flattened!

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Flat Stanley: Stanley, Flat Again!

A flat boy’s work is never done! In this hilarious follow-up to Flat Stanley, Stanley finds that he’s turned flat (again)! But he decides to have fun with it—and becomes a sail in a boat race before rescuing a classmate from beneath a collapsed building. Flat Stanley saves the day!

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Flat Stanley: Invisible Stanley

This time, Flat Stanley’s not flat—he’s invisible! Stanley does his best with his new condition, using his invisibility to help out where he can. But he finds himself in a tight spot when he gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery—and has to think fast to stop the criminals from getting away!

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Flat Stanley: Stanley in Space

When Flat Stanley gets a call from the President, he’s surprised and excited! The President asks the Lambchop family to travel by spaceship to faraway planet Tyrra. The Tyrrans have requested a meeting, and Stanley seems like a perfect ambassador. But the people of Tyrra are in trouble, and Stanley has to think up his best idea yet to save them.

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The Flat Stanley Collection Box Set

The Flat Stanley Collection Box Set offers four newly-repackaged Flat Stanley classics—Flat Stanley, Stanley in Space, Invisible Stanley, and Stanley, Flat Again—in a handy box set with an exciting new look of its own.

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Stanley and the Magic Lamp

Stanley Lampchop doesn’t realize that the old lamp he’s found is magic—until he rubs it and a genie appears! Of course the genie grants Flat Stanley many wishes. But the more wishes Stanley makes, the stranger his life becomes. Now Stanley’s adventure is a mess that will take more than just a wish to undo!

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #1: The Mount Rushmore Calamity

Flat Stanley and his family visit Mount Rushmore, where a real Wild West adventure awaits them! Stanley and his brother, Arthur, make a new friend, a cowgirl named Calamity Jasper. It’s all fun and games—until they are lassoed into a situation that’s about to get tricky—and tight! Can Flat Stanley save the day?

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #2: The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery

Flat Stanley travels by airmail to the land of ancient treasures, bustling bazaars, and the great pyramids to aid an archaeologist on a mysterious mission. From the great pyramids to the Sphinx, Stanley’s seeing all the sights of Egypt. But whether it’s a mummy’s curse or a crew of pesky grave robbers, adventure lies just around the corner.

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #3: The Japanese Ninja Surprise

The third escapade in the Worldwide Adventures series takes Flat Stanley to Japan—the land of ninja masters, the bullet train, sushi, and origami—when he sends himself as fan mail to his ninja idol. There’s nothing like being greeted by a full-scale ninja fight after you’ve been mailed halfway around the world! Stanley, as ever, is up to the job, and soon he’s got a job as a movie stand-in . . . until mysterious mayhem threatens to ruin everything.

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #4: The Intrepid Canadian Expedition

In this fourth book of the Worldwide Adventures series, Flat Stanley experiences the perils of being a snowboard, when he and his friend Nick are blown clear to Canada! There, they travel over Niagara Falls as a barrel, are pulled through the wintry northland by sled dogs, and ski down the Rocky Mountains—no need for skis when you’ve got Flat Stanley around! Can Stanley and Nick make it back to their parents—or do they need the Mounties to ride to the rescue?

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #5: The Amazing Mexican Secret

Flat Stanley is off to Mexico in search of a secret ingredient in The Amazing Mexican Secret! Assisted by some new friends, Flat Stanley dodges spies and sails over waterfalls in a Mexican adventure with a surprise twist. But when Stanley has to pretend to be a piñata—well, that kind of hurts! There are some shapes that even a flat boy might not like!

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #6: The African Safari Discovery

After a flat skull is discovered in Africa, Flat Stanley and his family are determined to find the archaeologist’s camp and see if the skull will tell Stanley anything about his own flatness. First, they’ll have to brave a land full of lions, giraffes, and elephants—not to mention jump out of an airplane!

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #7: The Flying Chinese Wonders

After accidently causing a tumble at Yin and Yang’s Flying Chinese Wonders show, Flat Stanley must step in and take the place of the injured Yang for their upcoming performance for the Chinese New Year in Beijing. Will Flat Stanley be able learn all the acrobatic moves and save the show?

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #8: The Australian Boomerang Bonanza

Arthur wins the trip of a lifetime to Australia after entering a cereal box contest. He decides to bring his brother, Flat Stanley along with him. Together with some new friends, they travel across the globe. They learn how to surf the ocean waves, snorkel over the magnificent Great Barrier Reef, and eventually end their adventure at the ancient Ayer’s Rock in the Outback…but not without any trouble. After all, Flat Stanley can always manage to get himself into trouble no matter where he is in the world.

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #9: The US Capital Commotion

Flat Stanley heads back to the U.S. for an adventure in Washington D.C. After dressing up as the United States Flag in an Independence Day parade, he is invited to visit the capital. Everyone in the nation is talking about Flat Stanley and even the President wants to meet him! On this patriotic adventure Stanley explores the National Archives, sees the Declaration of Independence up close, and takes a tour of the White House. As always, Flat Stanley manages to find trouble wherever he goes–but he also learns just what it means to be a hero.

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #10: Showdown at the Alamo

Stanley Lambchop can’t wait to visit Texas and hang out with his brother, Arthur, and friends Carlos and Eduardo. Between jamming onstage at a rock concert and horseback riding in the desert, Stanley is flying high! But when a mysterious truck starts following them, the fun comes to a halt until a showdown at the Alamo reveals all. Is Stanley ready to face his fears with his friends by his side?

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #11: Framed in France

When Flat Stanley is asked to help catch an art thief in Paris, he’s thrilled! Posing as a painting on a wall across from the famous Mona Lisa?—c’est magnifique! But Stanley soon grows bored—until he meets Etoile, an art student who shows him around the City of Light. When Stanley goes back to the museum, he quickly realizes that the Mona Lisa looks . . . different. It’s been switched for a fake! Will Stanley be able to nab the thief before he or she strikes again?

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #12: Escape to California

The Lambchops are on a family vacation in San Francisco. But when Stanley saves a girl from barreling down one of the city’s steep hills in her wheelchair, he’s shocked to find that she’s actually been looking for him. The girl, Lily, is trying to perform an amazing trick that no one has done before—escaping from Alcatraz prison—and she needs Stanley’s help! Can the famous flat boy help in this sticky situation?

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Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #13: The Midnight Ride of Flat Revere

The Lambchop family is off to Boston, Massachusetts, for a little history and a whole lot of fun. When the Lambchop family gets to Boston, Stanley is excited to go on a Duck Tour, eat lunch at Quincy Market, and see Fenway Park baseball stadium. Stanley even gets to be in a reenactment of American Colonist Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride.But Stanley has a problem. The Lambchops’ friend, Dr. Dan, is in town, too, and he’s giving a speech about his cure for flatness. And he wants Stanley to talk about being flat! But does Stanley want to change and be a regular kid, or would it be better to stay flat after all?

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Stanley’s Christmas Adventure

Flat Stanley is astonished when a girl tumbles down the chimney two nights before Christmas. It’s Santa’s daughter Sarah Claus, and she’s come for help! Santa says he’s not going to deliver any presents this year, and now it’s up to the Lambchop family to change his mind. They’re off to the North Pole—but will they be in time?

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Flat Stanley and the Haunted House

Flat Stanley and his brother Arthur can’t wait to be spooked at their school’s Halloween party. Stanley is particularly excited to put his flatness to good use at the limbo contest. But when they see a bully picking on their friend at the party, the boys know that they have to help. Soon, Stanley comes up with a plan that is flat-out hilarious!

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Flat Stanley at Bat

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s . . . Flat Stanley soaring for the fly ball! When Stanley tries out for the baseball team, he instantly becomes a star player. That is, until the opposing team cries foul play. Is being flat really fair?

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Flat Stanley and the Firehouse

Flat Stanley and Arthur won the Fire Safety Month poster contest and their prize is a trip to the local firehouse! Before the trip, Stanley and Arthur practice all of the fire drills they learned at school and dream about sliding down the fire pole. At the firehouse Chief Abbot gives the Lambchop family a tour of the kitchen, bunk room, and garage, and invites Stanley and Arthur to climb aboard a real fire truck. Things can’t get any better until Stanley and Arthur’s visit turns into an exciting rescue mission, proving that sometimes flatter is better.

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Flat Stanley Goes Camping

Lately, Flat Stanley’s mood has been rather . . . well, flat! When the Lambchop family decides to take a camping trip, Stanley and his little brother Arthur plan a trip of their own through the woods. After a close encounter with a skunk, the Lambchop brothers find themselves running as fast as they can . . . right up to the edge of a cliff! This is sure to be a trip to remember!

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Flat Stanley: Show-and-Tell, Flat Stanley!

Arthur decides to bring Flat Stanley to school for Show-and-Tell, because he’s so good at wiggling his ears! All of Arthur’s classmates having something fun to share, from Squeakers the mouse to a pair of false teeth. Even Miss Plum shares something—a sparkly new engagement ring! But when Squeakers runs off with her ring, it’s up to Flat Stanley to try and save the day.

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