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    Guys Read: Ghost Vision Glasses
    Guys Read: Ghost Vision Glasses
    Guys Read: Ghost Vision Glasses
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    Guys Read: Ghost Vision Glasses

    By Patrick Carman

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    The ad promised you’d be able to see into the spirit world. But they couldn’t work for real . . . could they? A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 20, 2011
    ISBN9780062112163
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    Patrick Carman

    Patrick Carman is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books, including the acclaimed series the Land of Elyon and Floors and the teen superhero novel Thirteen Days to Midnight. A multimedia pioneer, Patrick authored The Black Circle, the fifth title in the 39 Clues series, and the Dark Eden, Skeleton Creek, Trackers, Fizzopolis, and Voyagers series. An enthusiastic reading advocate, Patrick has visited more than a thousand schools, developed village library projects in Central America, and created author outreach programs for communities. He lives in Walla Walla, Washington, with his family. You can visit him online at www.patrickcarman.com.

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      Book preview

      Guys Read - Patrick Carman

      GUYS READ

      Ghost Vision Glasses

      Patrick Carman

      A Short Story from

      Guys Read: Thriller

      Edited and with an Introduction by Jon Scieszka

      With Illustration by Brett Helquist

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      Ghost Vision Glasses by Patrick Carman

      Guys E-Read

      Biographies

      Back Ad

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      Ghost Vision Glasses

      by Patrick Carman

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      Kyle Jennings was a normal ten-year-old kid when it came to his understanding of money. It was used, primarily, for three things:

      • candy

      • action figures

      • weird stuff

      Kyle was especially fond of weird stuff and would often limit his spending on candy and action figures in order to get more weird stuff. Some of the best weird stuff Kyle had included the following items:

      • six cans of fart putty

      • a magic trick that made it look like he’d cut his thumb off

      • a Chia Head with a full head of green grass hair (Probably Kyle’s favorite weird thing, the Chia Head was pottery in the shape of a bald head, with tiny holes where green grass grew out like hair if you watered it regularly.)

      • a camera that squirted water (nonoperational after recently attempted syrup squirt)

      • a Magic 8 Ball

      • a rubber chicken

      • tennis shoes with wheels in them (one currently clogged with old chewing gum)

      Kyle kept his stash of weird stuff in a plastic bin in his closet so Scotty Vincent wouldn’t find it. Scotty Vincent was the biggest, meanest kid in the neighborhood. He had gigantic arms like a gorilla and always wore a bright orange baseball cap backward on his huge head.

      And he liked to take Kyle’s things.

      For example, Kyle used to have a robot made out of grape soda cans until Scotty Vincent took it outside and crushed each can one at a time on the sidewalk in front of Kyle’s house. (He started with the grape-soda-can head and worked his way down to the soda-can feet. It was disturbing.) And he’d once shown up with a pair of scissors and given the Chia Head a grass-hair crew cut, laughing the whole time.

      Scotty Vincent’s parents were just as bad, only larger and louder. They constantly yelled at Kyle to stay off their property, which was hard to do because they had a superfriendly horse named Skipper, tied up in their backyard, that would eat out of Kyle’s hand.

      Get your hands away from that horse! Scotty Vincent’s mom often yelled. She was a large, obnoxious woman and she sometimes smelled like cheese. Scotty Vincent’s dad, one of the hairiest and most unpleasant people Kyle had ever met, usually followed by throwing rotten fruit in Kyle’s general direction and screaming, This ain’t no petting zoo!

      Scotty Vincent’s

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