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When 7 is accused of eating 9, worried 6 hires a detective to investigate.

This deceptively simple bedtime book gives your child the building blocks for math success. As children say goodnight to the objects all around them three wheels on a tricycle, four legs on a cat they will connect with the real numbers in their world while creating cuddly memories, night after night.

Annoyed with his math teacher who assigns word problems and won't let him use a calculator, twelve-year-old Robert finds help from the number devil in his dreams.

While hiding out from the mob in the suburbs with his mother, a singer, Jackson uses his fascination with math and numbers to make friends, but strange phone calls and even greater threats endanger not only Jackson and his mother, but his new girlfriend, as well.

"Numbers think they're the stars of this book, but Letters disagree!"--

Zero believes that he is a hero, but the counting numbers think he is worthless until they get into trouble with some Roman numerals, and only Zero can help.

Toy numbers and letters meet and, in some cases, clash in a classroom during recess, but soon discover they have some things in common.