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Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy—just ask his mother.
Back are all our favorite denizens of a Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh. Bertie the immensely talented six year old is now enrolled
Author
Series
Jeeves and Wooster volume 14
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000, ©1988
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of humorous stories, including "The Truth about George," "Ukridge's Dog College," "The Coming of Gowf," "The Purity of the Turf," and "A Slice of Life.".
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
Author
Series
Tom Gates stories volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
No school for two whole weeks! Tom can forget all about lessons (and irritating things like Marcus Meldrew) and concentrate on good stuff like, inventing new ways to annoy Delia and band practice for Dogzombies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1995
Language
English
Description
Whenever a problem arises in his own relationships or in the lives of his friends, Bertie wooster is certain to have an ingeniously complex solution. Luckily for Bertie and his friends, he also has his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, to straighten out the resulting chaos!
Author
Series
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From riotous misbehaviour in Victorian London to ingenious feats of scientific invention (powdered water - just add water!), and from a chaotic Nativity play starring a vengeful Angel Gabriel to an illegal expedition to Mars, Jodi Taylor knows how to spin a good yarn."--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on lyrics of Tim Minchin's song from Matilda the Musical, this book gives a child's view of what adult life might look like--a fantasy of being able to do whatever you want to do.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl, observing that life with her family is not easy, imagines the quintet as a pod of pelicans, a swarm of bees, or a herd of buffalo. Includes note about, and list of, collective nouns for animals.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of being near the end of the alphabet, starting few words, and being governed by grammar rules, X calls for a vote on a new Alphabet Constitution, then dreams of how life would be if he became a different letter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's hate at first sight when Raku Ichijo first meets Chitoge Kirisaki. Much to their chagrin, the two are forced into a false love relationship to keep the peace between their feuding gangster families. When Chitoge heads to Tenku Meadowland, Raku, Kosaki, Marika and Tsugumi all show up to look for her. Little by little, they begin to remember the past... Will they finally get to the bottom of the mysterious promise? Whose love will become real in...
17) Pippi moves in!
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking comics volume 1
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Pippi Longstocking, an adventurous young redhead, moves in next door to Tommy and Annika in a small Swedish village and nothing is the same from there on. She has a horse, a monkey named Mr. Nilsson, and no parents.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world -- and there's nothing they despise more than children. When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch herself, they may be the only ones who can stop the witches' latest plot to stamp out every last child in the country!
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