Great Ball of Light

Evan Kuhlman, Jeremy Holmes

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• eBook ISBN:
  9781442426610
• Year: 2015

A pulsing ball of light gives two kids the astonishing ability to bring things back to life in this "eerie and hopeful" ( Kirkus Reviews ) and hugely fun look at what they'll do to make their family whole again, from the author of The Last Invisible Boy. After a lightning strike, when twin brother and sister Fenton and Fiona find a ball of light in their backyard, things get…weird. Especially when Fenton figures out it can bring things back to life. Everything from bugs, to trees, to their old dog Scruffy, to…well…people. Namely, their grandfather. Because they really do miss him, and more than that, their father and their grandfather have unsettled business to take care of. But be warned: bringing things back from the dead gets a little more complicated when they stick around.

Table of contents

• Cover
• A Handy Guide to Bringing Back the Dead (Take 1)
• Chapter 1: Picture This . . .
• Chapter 2: Introductions
• Chapter 3: Stormy Weather
• Chapter 4: Second-Chance Beetles
• Chapter 5: Life Is a Grilled Cheese Sandwich
• Chapter 6: You Can’t Build a Pig from a Slice of Salami
• Chapter 7: The Legend of Scruffy the Dog
• Chapter 8: Operation Dig Up Scruffy
• Chapter 9: There’s a Hellhound in the Storm Cellar
• Chapter 10: The Undeniable Holiness of Blueberry Pancakes
• Chapter 11: Fenton Gets a Big Head
• Chapter 12: Cosmological Monkeys
• Chapter 13: Scruffy 2.0
• Chapter 14: Bad Science, Bad Lies, Bad Plans
• Chapter 15: Uncle Jack
• Chapter 16: Frozen Tales of the Ice Queen
• Chapter 17: A Handy Guide to Bringing Back the Dead (Take 2)
• Chapter 18: Operation Dig Up Grandpa Wade
• Chapter 19: A Severe Case of the Cemetery Willies
• Chapter 20: Travels with Grandpa Wade
• Chapter 21: Welcome to Bluebird Acres
• Chapter 22: Mapples, anyone?
• Chapter 23: Extreme Father Issues
• Chapter 24: Faint of Heart
• Chapter 25: The Bookworm Zombie
• Chapter 26: The 1990 Montana State Fair
• Chapter 27: Spiraling Rocket, Mortal Mouse
• Chapter 28: “Ten thousand more volts!” said Dr. Frankenstein.
• Chapter 29: I Kiss Luke Stambaugh and Live to Tell about It
• Chapter 30: A Room without a View
• Chapter 31: Oh No, There Goes My Toe
• Chapter 32: Grandpa’s Secret
• Chapter 33: I Impersonate a Balloon
• Chapter 34: The Truth Will Give You the Giggles
• Chapter 35: A Zombie Makeover
• Chapter 36: Surprise!
• Chapter 37: True Love Always
• Chapter 38: Life, Death, and the Gooey Stuff In Between
• Chapter 39: The Beartooth Mountains
• Chapter 40: Vacation Time
• Chapter 41: Second Chances, Second Choices
• Chapter 42: Where Do We Go from Here?
• About the Author
• Copyright