Heroes A2Z #3: Cherry Bomb Squad

By David Anthony and Charles David Clasman

What's Bark and Ripe and Red All Over?
The Cherry Bomb Squad!

Traverse City is home to tree superheroes. Meet Abigail, the oldest. When it comes to sports, she can't be beat. Andrew is her twin. If it has wheels, he can ride it. Baby Zoe is the youngest but also the strongest. Don't let the diaper fool you.

In this adventure, a family visit to the Cherry Olde Orchard becomes a waking, walking nightmare. The trees pick up root and start laying down the lumber. If that's not enough, their cherry bombs will flatten anything in their path. The National Cherry Festival will never be the same.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Anthony
• Release date: Nov 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301122561

David Anthony

David Anthony, along with co-author Charles David Clasman, has written over 20 books for kids in three series, including Mystery Underground, Heroes A2Z, and Knightscares.David Anthony received his first typewriter in the eighth grade and has been banging on keyboards ever since. As a child, some of David's best friends were books. He always loved to read. A friend first inspired him to write, and the steady encouragement of his parents and teachers kept him at it. Today he writes with the passion of his youth. No story can ever be too fantastic, too impossible, too spooky, or too silly.David currently lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan with a patient wife, a semi-patient son, and a demanding dog. At least two of them usually need a haircut. When not writing or reading, David plays tabletop games with his son, engages in social media, and roots for the Detroit Red Wings.

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Cherry Bomb Squad

by

David Anthony

and

Charles David Clasman

Illustrations

Lys Blakeslee

Heroes A²Z #3: Cherry Bomb Squad

Copyright 2012 David Anthony and Charles David Clasman

Published by Sigil Publishing, LLC

Smashwords Edition

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This book is fiction. The people, places, and events depicted within are fictitious or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to persons living or dead or to real life places is purely coincidental.

Table of Contents

1. Meet the Heroes

2. Cherry Olde Orchard

3. Picking for Surprise

4. Fruity Formation

5. Right, Left, Stop

6. General Chaos

7. Cherry-Coated Capture

8. Cherry-O-Matic

9. Straight Jacket Rabbit

10. Monkeys vs. Bulls

11. Cracking the Coating

12. Bomb Squad Bread Crumbs

13. Downtown Showdown

14. Wings with Wheels

15. Pie in the Sky

16. Froot Cuffs

17. Down with the Ship

18. The Last Laugh

19. Conquest to Contest

1: Meet the Heroes

Welcome to Traverse City, Michigan, population 18,000. The city has everything you might expect: malls, movie theaters, schools, and playgrounds. Kids swim here in the summer and build snowmen during the winter. Sometimes they pretend that they live in an ordinary place.

But Traverse City is far from ordinary. It is set on one of the Great Lakes and is famous for its yearly National Cherry Festival. Thousands of people attend the fun and games every summer.

Still, few of them know the city’s real secret. Even fewer talk about it. You see, Traverse City is home to three extraordinary superheroes. This story is about them.

Meet Abigail, the oldest of our heroes by a whole eight minutes. When it comes to sports, she can’t be beat—not at croquet, not at cross-country, and certainly not at curling. At the Cherry Festival’s carnival, she can single-handedly win almost all of the prizes.

Andrew comes next. He’s Abigail’s twin brother, younger by a measly eight minutes. If it has wheels, Andrew can ride it. He’s clever, cunning, and crafty on wheels. In fact, it’s his responsibility to lead the National Cherry Festival parade. Only he can ride the Traverse