Excerpts from the Book 'Adolescents Only':

... It might have been called music, but there was no definable melody or beat. It was faint at first, but as he moved to the right, paralleling the ditch, ...
... just who would that be? In a big city he would have telephoned the police. But San Benedicto was a California valley town, small, sleepy, and contented. ...
... nothing else. The State Police? Elvin doubted they would have jurisdiction. His last, feeble resort seemed to be theSan Benedicto News, a daily, four-page ...
... had become second nature with him. He brought out his blue serge and hung it on the door it was the suit he would wear next week to school. Saturday ...
... a number of up-to-date references that he could use but there was nothing on the shelves. Five minutes before closing time, he asked the librarian ...
... spent the rest of the weekend planning his revenge. He didn't think of it as that, but rather disciplinary action. Yet he knew the class would get ...
... each brought two or more books. Elvin's body went rigid with anger when he saw what was currently passing among them for the skill of reading. They were ...
... the Schermerhorn twins got to fooling around with the electro-magnet. They rewired it somehow and added a few-well, frankly, I don't understand at all! But ...
... the class hardly showed any interest in what the boys were doing. I actually asked Marilyn if she didn't want her necklace turned to gold, and she said ...
... like to go on talking, Mr. Elvin, honest. But we have a lot of work to finish. It'll be bedtime soon enough. But you know about hypnotism, don't you? We ...
... twins. Normally talkative to the point of nausea, they were now strangely quiet. And this was exactly the sort of thing that should have inspired their ...
... been smashed, and grudgingly the men turned to the task of freeing their cars. Donald snatched Elvin's arm. Stay here with Pop, he shouted above ...
... by their roots, and a pair of snarling lions stood at bay on the sidewalk. After they had shot the lions, they found a cobra was coiled on the cashier's ...
... abruptly, and an excited newscaster interrupted. It's been like this all day, Mrs. Schermerhorn said. She looked up nervously as the side door opened ...
... the twins had left, Elvin went up to his room to bathe. His mind skipped pleasantly over the delightful and limitless possibilities of his new ...
... started their bubble gum contest, but instead of gum they had by accident absorbed the accumulated knowledge of Dyran, a culture more than three hundred ...
... had complete faith in his motives. Then one of your machines, he suggested. I have to make them understand I'm not a crank. That sounds sensible. ...
... broke in. We couldn't- Why that, Mr. Elvin? I've already told you. It's the sort of thing that would attract the attention of the important officials ...
... Mr. Elvin, he read. It was unkind of us to play another trick on you, but we're sure you'll be clever enough to steal the tungsten without getting ...
... we'll know better-The Next Time We Die Stephen Marlowe Earthsmith Nobody at the Interstellar Space School had ever heard of Earth so naturally they ...