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Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Where there's smoke there's fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum. The bail bonds office has burned to the ground, and bodies are turning up in the empty construction lot. To make matters worse, Stephanie is working out of a motor home she shares with a dancing bear, and Joe Morelli's old-world grandmother has declared a vendetta against her. And just when Stephanie decides it might be time to choose between...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A once-intrepid spy, a dignified rodent, and a girl with a perplexing past team up to find out who is draining the minds of great scientists of their knowledge.
Author
Series
Wiley and Grampa's creature features volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When zombies show up at their annual barbecue, Wiley and Grampa try to find a way to stop the hungry creatures from eating the other guests until Gramma comes to the rescue with a surprise weapon.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Mild-mannered sheep farmer Albert Stark is fed up with the harsh life of the American frontier, where is seems everything and anything can kill you: Duels at high noon. Barroom brawls. Poisonous snakes. Cholera-infected drinking water. Tumble-weed abrasion. Something called "toe-foot." Even a trip to the outhouse. Yes, there are a million ways to die in the wild, wild West and Albert plans to avoid them all. Some people think that makes him a coward....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
8) The bad seed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is a book about a bad seed. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Do you really want to know?"--Publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune. In their most daring misadventure, the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by a very rich couple whose penthouse apartment is located close to the place where the orphans' misfortune all began. This sixth book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" finds...
Author
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events volume V. 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. Imagine tales so terrible...
12) Stick dog
Author
Series
Stick dog volume V. 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Stick Dog and his four friends - Stripes, Mutt, Poo-Poo and Karen - will do anything to steal some sweet-smelling hamburgers from a family at Picasso Park!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
Author
Series
Wiley and Grampa's creature features volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
In the first book of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney introduces us to Greg Heffley: an unforgettable, unlikely hero that every family can relate to. This edition features a special cover image from the beloved Disney+ movie.
Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg. He finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share...
Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg. He finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because she does exactly as she is told, Amelia Bedelia is fired from one job after another. Amelia Bedelia is always getting herself into trouble! When Mrs. Rogers asks for cereal with her coffee, Amelia Bedelia does exactly what she is told; she puts cereal in the coffee. Mrs. Rogers is so angry she fires her! Poor Amelia Bedelia must look for another job. At each place she tries-the beauty shop, the dress shop, and the doctor's office-Amelia Bedelia...