num_pages: 336
description: Includes a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story!What could be scarier than the first day of school? How about a crash course in the paranormal from Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner editors of Home Improvement: Undead Edition? Your worst school nightmarestaking that math test you never studied for finding yourself naked in school assembly not knowing which door to enterwill pale in comparison to these thirteen original stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms. In #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harriss story Playing Possum Sookie Stackhouse brings enough birthday cupcakes for her nephew's entire class but finds she's one short when the angry ex-boyfriend of the school secretary shows up. When her guardian Kate Daniels sends her undercover to a school for exceptional children teenaged Julie learns an all-new definition of exceptional in New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews's Magic Tests. For those who like fangs with their forensics New York Times bestselling author Nancy Holder offers VSI in which FBI agent Claire is tested as never before in a school for Vampire Scene Investigation. And in New York Times bestselling author Thomas Sniegoski's The Bad Hour Remy Chandler and his dog Marlowe find evil unleashed in an obedience school. You'll need more than an apple to stave off the creatures in these and nine other stories. Remember your first lesson: resistance is fruitless! Includes stories by: ILONA ANDREWS AMBER BENSON RHYS BOWEN MIKE CAREY CHARLAINE HARRIS DONALD HARSTAD STEVE HOCKENSMITH NANCY HOLDER FAITH HUNTER TONI L.P. KELNER MARJORIE LIU JONATHAN MABERRY THOMAS SNIEGOSKI
language: English
title: An Apple for the Creature
publisher: Ace