title: Me and My Shadows: Shadow Puppet Fun for Kids of All Ages, Enhanced with Practical Paper Pastimes
author: Bud Banis PhD
description: Scientist, Professor, Lifelong Learner. Business Professor at U MO St Louis. Ceo &amp; Publisher, Science and Humanities Press. Grandfather. See full history by googling "Bud UMSL" (without the quotes) Full c.v. at the UMSL teaching site. Robert J. "Bud" Banis, PhD Has enjoyed an eclectic career. Educated in Science Education, Nutrition and Biochemistry at well known universities including Cornell, Purdue, NC State, Harvard, He was a practicing biochemist in Academia and Industry for over thirty years. He earned an MBA Cum Laude from The University of Chicago in Marketing, Finance and Operations Management, and served as Director of Finance and Operations in a major Pharmaceutical company for several years. For over 25 years, he taught Logistics, Statistics, and Computer techniques as a Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri. His publication record is as diverse as his career, with technical and popular works in computer programming, biological sciences, Poetry, technical medical topics, Operations Research and children's books. He pursues his avocation of writing and publishing as the Publisher &amp; CEO of Science &amp; Humanities Press.
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  ![Janitors](images/titleart.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  © 2011 Tyler Whitesides.  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
  
  
  reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the
  
  
  publisher, Shadow Mountain®. The views expressed herein are
  
  
  the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the position
  
  
  of Shadow Mountain.
  
  
  All characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual
  persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data**
  
  
  Whitesides, Tyler, author.
  
  
  Janitors / Tyler Whitesides.
  
  
  pages cm
  
  
  Summary: A sixth grader stumbles upon a secret that threatens to turn
  schoolchildren everywhere into mindless automatons.
  
  
  ISBN 978-1-60908-056-3 (hardbound : alk. paper)
  
  
  [1. Students—Fiction. 2. Monsters—Fiction. 3. School custodians—Fiction. 4.
  Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
  
  
  PZ7.W58793 Jan 2011
  
  
  [Fic]—dc22 2011007692
  
  
  Printed in the United States of A