Marsh, Robert

"Gabby and Dwight attempt to steal the show in the school play, take the field in a teachers-vs.-students baseball game, turn into monster moneymakers in the class candy drive, and study up to become monster spellers for the district-wide spelling bee"--Provided by publisher.

The teachers try to use dirty tricks to win during a faculty against student baseball game, but the children hope to win with Dwight, Gabby's beastly pet, on their side, even though he is not a very good player.

Gabby's pet monster, Dwight, wants to participate in a spelling bee but, unfortunately, no one understands him. Dwight has no luck with speech therapy but he could use an interpreter if only Vice Principal Burns would approve.

Gabby and her pet monster, Dwight, hatch a plan to save the school lunch program, but their efforts are disrupted when another student and his own beastly friend become their competition.

Fifteen-year-old Dustin Martinez, an aspiring astronaut, in Cocoa Beach, Florida, is devastated when the space shuttle "Challenger" explodes shortly after launch, and when he learns his father, a scallop boat captain, is going to help NASA's recovery effort, he makes plans to stow away and join the hunt.

Like every kid in town, twelve-year-old Gabby Gibbons has a pet monster. But unlike the others, Gabby refuses to keep her monster, Dwight, in the closet. When she brings him to school, the drama teacher takes a liking to the beastly pet. He wants Dwight to play Scrooge in the annual production of "A Christmas Carol." If Dwight messes up, Gabby will have a monster of a problem. Includes a glossary, directions for drawing a monster, discussion questions, and writing prompts.