

Disappearing Acts
Author: Betsy Byars
Series: Herculeah Jones Mystery
Narrator: Lauren Davis
Unabridged: 2 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 08/14/2018
Author: Betsy Byars
Series: Herculeah Jones Mystery
Narrator: Lauren Davis
Unabridged: 2 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 08/14/2018
Betsy Byars began her writing career rather late in life. "In all of my school years, . . . not one single teacher ever said to me, 'Perhaps you should consider becoming a writer,'" Byars recalls. "Anyway, I didn't want to be a writer. Writing seemed boring. You sat in a room all day by yourself and typed. If I was going to be a writer at all, I was going to be a foreign correspondent like Claudette Colbert in Arise My Love. I would wear smashing hats, wisecrack with the guys, and have a byline known round the world. My father wanted me to be a mathematician." So Byars set out to become mathematician, but when she couldn't grasp calculus in college, she turned to English. Even then, writing was not on her immediate horizon.First, she married and started a family. The writing career didn't emerge until she was 28, a mother of two children, and living in a small place she called the barracks apartment, in Urbana, Illinois. She and her husband, Ed, had moved there in 1956 so he could attend graduate school at the University of Illinois. She was bored, had no friends, and so turned to writing to fill her time. Byars started writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post, Look,and other magazines. As her family grew and her children started to read, she began to write books for young people and, fortunately for her readers, discovered that there was more to being a writer than sitting in front of a typewriter."Making up stories and characters is so interesting that I'm never bored. Each book has been a different writing experience. It takes me about a year to write a book, but I spend another year thinking about it, polishing it, and making improvements. I always put something of myself intomy books -- something that happened to me. Once a wanderer came by my house and showed me how to brush my teeth with a cherry twig; that went in The House of Wingscopyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.
133- Herculeah has a friend, Meat. Meat goes to comedy club call "Funny Bonz" and when he goes to the bathroom, he sees a trail of girl things, like lipstick, a wallet, brush. His elbow knocks a stall-door and a dead body fell. He thought it was a joke because it was April 1st, but he saw the face p......more
Вече ви запознахме с Еркюлея Джоунс, младото момиче-детектив от книгите на Бетси Байърс. Благодарение на издателство „Монт” поредицата с нейните мистерии продължава и Еркюлея демонстрира завидни умения в разнищването на криминални случаи, които я превръщат в първа конкурентка на нейната колежка Нанс......more
My book is Disappearing Acts, it is part of the Herculeah Jones Mystery series, written by author Betsy Byars. It follows two characters named Meat and Herculeah, as they try to solve a mystery of a murder. Meat finds the body and a wallet belonging to Marcie Mullet in the bathroom of a comedy club......more
Herculeah has this strange phenomena...when something bad is going to happen, her hairs frizzes out like she put her hand on one of those electric balls. When her friend Meat decides he is going to be a stand up comic, he takes a class to learn to be funny. Only, he finds a dead woman's body in the......more