Strange Matter
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Strange Matter is a children's book series created by Marty M. Engle and Johnny Ray Barnes Jr. The series takes place in the fictional town of Fairfield. It centers on children attending Fairfield Middle School who encounter paranormal situations. Each book in the series features a new protagonist and a new situation. Some situations or characters are used more than once, but either way, it is a new situation. It series was published between 1995 and 1997.
The books were also featured on cassette tape, within which each character was voiced by separate actors, it featured sound effects, and eerie music.
2. The Midnight Game
3. Driven To Death
4. A Place to Hide
5. The Last One In
6. Bad Circuits
7. Fly the Unfriendly Skies
8. Frozen Dinners
9. Deadly Delivery
10. Knightmare
11. Something Rotten
12. Dead On Its Tracks
13. Toy Trouble
14. Plant People
15. Creature Features
16. The Weird, Weird West
17. Tune Into Terror
18. The Fairfield Triangle
19. Bigfoot, Big Trouble
20. Doorway to Doom
21. Under Wraps
22. Dangerous Waters
23. Second Sighting
24. Nightcrawlers
25. Splitting Image
26. The Headless Rider
27. Primevil
28. The Off-Worlder
29. Shadow Chasers
30. Escape From Planet Earth
31. Rilo Buru's Summer Vacation
32. Shriek
33. Scariest Show On Earth
34. From The Ashes
35. Stamped
. It was like the others in the series, except that it involved some of the main protagonists from the first 10 books published in the Strange Matter series. It also had its own storyline that was away from the rest and was connected in every book, unlike the Strange Matter series where new characters were introduced and new situations were involved each book (save for three).
The books were also featured on cassette tape, within which each character was voiced by separate actors, it featured sound effects, and eerie music.
List of books
1. No Substitutions2. The Midnight Game
3. Driven To Death
4. A Place to Hide
5. The Last One In
6. Bad Circuits
7. Fly the Unfriendly Skies
8. Frozen Dinners
9. Deadly Delivery
10. Knightmare
11. Something Rotten
12. Dead On Its Tracks
13. Toy Trouble
14. Plant People
15. Creature Features
16. The Weird, Weird West
17. Tune Into Terror
18. The Fairfield Triangle
19. Bigfoot, Big Trouble
20. Doorway to Doom
21. Under Wraps
22. Dangerous Waters
23. Second Sighting
24. Nightcrawlers
25. Splitting Image
26. The Headless Rider
27. Primevil
28. The Off-Worlder
29. Shadow Chasers
30. Escape From Planet Earth
Escape from Planet Earth
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31. Rilo Buru's Summer Vacation
32. Shriek
33. Scariest Show On Earth
34. From The Ashes
35. Stamped
Other works
This series also spawned a 4 part mini-series called Strange ForcesStrange forces
Strange Forces is a young adult fiction series by Marty M. Engle and Johnny Ray Barnes, Jr. This mini-series occurs within the world of "Strange Matter", its parent series. The story involves some of the main characters from the first 10 books of Strange Matter...
. It was like the others in the series, except that it involved some of the main protagonists from the first 10 books published in the Strange Matter series. It also had its own storyline that was away from the rest and was connected in every book, unlike the Strange Matter series where new characters were introduced and new situations were involved each book (save for three).
External links
- http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv/title.cfm?id=558 - list of published Strange Matter books
- http://revisitingstrangematter.blogspot.com/ - Blog reviewing each title in the series.