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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families.
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"OK. A lot of the stuff we said on the back of the last book was NOT TRUE. We now admit that The Bad Guys is WEIRD. We also admit that it features ALL the weird stuff we said it didn't. PLUS there's now a whole bunch of even weirder stuff involving an over-sharing bat, a really scary new character who lives in the woods, and a strangely confident little guy with a mullet. So, uh, don't relax, maybe FREAK OUT a little and have your MIND BLOWN by the...
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"WEIRD?! Nothing weird EVER happens in The Bad Guys. Like, you would NEVER see a chain-saw monster confronting a velociraptor who has eaten an elderly piranha, or the disturbing antics of a deranged dentist running amok with an oversized drill. NOPE. None of that nonsense here. So relax and be entirely unsurprised by the Bad Guys' next adventure!"--
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Still yearning to be seen as heroes, Wolf, Shark, Snake, and Piranha set out to rescue ten thousand chickens from a high-tech cage farm--but one unexpected problem is Mr. Snake himself, also known as "The Chicken Swallower.".
Author
Series
Inspector Flytrap volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping to become the greatest detective that ever grew, Inspector Flytrap, a Venus Flytrap, and his assistant, Nina the Goat, investigate "big deal" mysteries at an art museum, a cookie shop, and a garden.
6) The Bad guys
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Bad Guys--Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Piranha--want to be heroes. They decide that the way to do it is free the 200 dogs in the city dog pound--but their plan soon goes awry.
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sky goes dark. The city trembles. The screams begin& and everyones favorite Wolf has a lot of explaining to do. Hes big? Yep. Bad? You betcha. Unmissable? Yesssssssssssss. But seriously, will someone tell those whiny three little pig dudes to stop saying We told you so? Hide under a table and strap on a helmet the Big Bad Wolf is ready to blow!
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mysterious doorway! (Sure, it's in the grossest restaurant in the world, but that doesn't make it any less mysterious, ok?) Behold! What lies beyond it?! An evil centipede? An alternate universe? A few decent explanations? Vrrring! Ning! Ning! Hey! Was that a chain saw? Let's see if you can read and run at the same time..."-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" — Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog ManThey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds...whether you like it or not! This New York Times bestselling illustrated series is perfect for fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.The Bad Guys have strangely acquired SUPERPOWERS! But their powers might be, well,...Author
Series
FunJungle volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Teddy Fitzroy must solve the crime of the kidnapped rare and expensive panda, Li Ping.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling duo behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs comes the long-awaited sequel to Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, which shows us a hilarious new group of animals that shouldn't, ever ever ever, dress like humans. Everyone knows that snakes and billy goats and walruses should definitely not wear clothing, but there are actually lots more animals that should definitely not wear clothing ... Because a frog might jump out...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amelia Bedelia is sick the day her class goes to visit the zoo. She doesn't want to be left out, so she comes up with a brilliant idea--she'll create a zoo in her backyard, using all her classmates' pets. But she doesn't know exactly how to tell her parents about her great plan"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Turtle really likes standing in his favorite spot. He likes it so much that he asks his friend Armadillo to come over and stand in it, too. But now that Armadillo is standing in that spot, he has a bad feeling about it . . . This book is a meditation on the workings of friendship, fate, shared futuristic visions, and that funny feeling you get that there's something off somewhere, but you just can't put your finger on it. -- Provided by publisher....
14) Lion down
Author
Series
FunJungle volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
For once, operations at the enormous zoo/theme park appear to be running smoothly (except for the occasional herring-related mishap in the penguin exhibit) and Teddy Fitzroy is finally able to give detective work a rest. But then a local lion is accused of killing a famous dog--and the dog's owner, an inflammatory radio host, goes on a crusade to have the cat declared a nuisance so it can be hunted. However, there's evidence that the lion might have...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Noel Zone is back to make YOU into a qualified Level 2 Dangerologist in this wacky handbook about how to avoid danger of even more kinds--from dinosaurs to volcanoes to the circus--plus the overwhelming danger of a real live puppy!"--Amazon.com.
20) Animal jokes
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A selection of riddles and jokes related to four-legged, feathered, and finned creatures.
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