Lunch Box Library — Sarah Albee

Here's the tastiest new idea to come along for kids' lunch boxes since the juice pack. Introducing Lunch Box Library, an ingenious way to enjoy reading that combines the old-fashioned pleasures of a cliffhanger with an innovative and irresistible design. Printed on a tear-off pad, each volume contains stories in serial form. 6 Wild Adventures features a half-dozen inventive tales in 15-episode form. Written by veteran children's authors, here's "Creampuff, the Heroic Hamster," "Sarah Zodd's Arabian Nights," "A Really Bad Cyber-Hair Day," plus pirates, mutant chickens, Egyptian mummies, and more, for up to three weeks of lunch.

Suitable for grades 3-5. 40,000 copies in print.