Pick a book. Grow a Reader This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow In book 6, a mysterious substitute teacher arrives at Eerie Elementary. Sam, Lucy, and Antonio think he must be up to no goodThey follow him and discover he lives in mad scientist Orson Eerie's old houseAnd he's building a strange machineWho is this substitute teacher? Is he trying to free Orson -- to somehow bring him back to life for real?Sam and his friends are about to find out