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41) Homer Price
Author
Publisher
The Viking Press
Pub. Date
1943
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage.
42) Penguin problems
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little penguin argues that home, far from being free from worries and responsibilities, is freezing, filled with natural predators, and overrun by identical penguins that make it difficult to find one's mom.
Author
Series
Great Brain books volume 2
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.
45) I, funny
Author
Series
I funny volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.
46) Maine: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Descending on a family beach house won in a bet years earlier, three generations of women gradually impart difficult respective secrets including a pregnancy, a terrible crush, and a deeply-held resentment for past misdeeds.
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 6
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Literal-minded Amelia Bedelia does household chores and gets dinner ready.
51) The terrible two
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local, mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
54) The adulterants
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated group of friends, and a wife, Garthene, who is pregnant. He is a man who has never been punched above the neck. He has never committed adultery with his actual body. He has never been caught up in a riot, nor arrested, nor tagged by the state, nor become an international hate-figure. Not until the summer of 2011, when discontent is rising on the streets...
55) The echo chamber
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realizing how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, his wife Beverley, and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged,...
56) I'm not Millie
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Someone is causing a lot of trouble during and after supper, but Millie is certainly not the guilty one.
Author
Series
How to train your dragon volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Someone has stolen the fire stone, so eggs of exterminator dragons are hatching. Hiccup must return the fire stone to the volcano to save the Tribes from being wiped out.
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