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Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Dark times have fallen on McQuarrie Middle School. Dwight is back--and not a moment too soon--as Kellen, Sara, and the gang face a new Menace: the FunTime Educational Program. FunTime is supposed to raise students' standardized test scores. Instead, it's driving everyone crazy. The students turn to Origami Yoda for help"--
Author
Series
Zombie problems volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When August DuPont, eleven, leaves his eccentric Aunt Hydrangea's crumbling mansion for the first time ever, he meets family, makes a friend, and attracts a zombie.
64) Remarkable
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish...
66) Hairy Hezekiah
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A lonely Bactrian camel sets out in search of a friend, but after being threatened, laughed at, and insulted by other animals at the zoo and unknowingly wreaking havoc in the English countryside, he finds a real home and true friend at a safari park.
67) Framed
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.
Author
Series
Secrets of the dragon tomb volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While dreaming of being a spy like those in his favorite magazine, twelve-year-old Edward has been stuck holding his eccentric family together but when his parents are kidnapped, he leads his sisters and cousin in an effort to rescue them across the danger-filled landscape of nineteenth-century Mars.
Author
Series
Red Blazer Girls volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Sophie finds a secret message in the antique fountain pen she bought for her father, she and her friends become involved in a treasure hunt devised by the pen's previous owner, whose house is full of puzzles that protect a hidden treasure.
72) The zombie stone
Author
Series
Zombie problems volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a zombie followed August DuPont home one day, he didn't expect her to stick around. But Claudette is in no hurry to leave August's side. And when he decides to go to Croissant City in search of the elusive Zombie Stone, Claudette joins him.
Author
Series
Applewhites volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old E.D. Applewhite, still reeling from her bewildering kiss with former bad boy Jake, embarks on a cross-country road trip in a wildly painted school bus with her eccentric, highly creative family, as they compete in an art educational quest for a big cash prize.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Continuing story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the unexplored wild West of the 1830s, at that point in time when Lewis and Clark are still a living memory, and when the clash between the powerful Indian tribes of the Missouri and the encroaching white Americans is about to turn into full-blown tragedy.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A dazzlingly original new novel from the acclaimed author of The Borrower. Now, Makkai returns with an ingenious novel set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony. Doug, the husband of the estate's heir, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader...
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 4
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives, Tasmin and her family are under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next. Captain Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, is puzzled by the great changes sweeping over the West, replacing red men and buffalo with towns and farms.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Mistery, a twelve-year-old detective with a photographic memory, travels to Egypt, where rumors of a mysterious tablet unearthed in the Valley of the Kings may be just the clue that she needs to unlock the secret curse of an ancient pharaoh.
78) Contar de 7 en 7
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
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Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 5
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
The battle for seventh grade continues in the New York Times–bestselling series featuring origami Star Wars puppets you can make at home!
Help us, Principal Rabbski. You're our only hope.
In their fight against FunTime, the tedious, elective-crushing test prep program, Origami Yoda and the Rebel Alliance have found allies in unexpected places. But the allegiance of one mysterious, all-powerful figure remains to be seen:...
Help us, Principal Rabbski. You're our only hope.
In their fight against FunTime, the tedious, elective-crushing test prep program, Origami Yoda and the Rebel Alliance have found allies in unexpected places. But the allegiance of one mysterious, all-powerful figure remains to be seen:...
Author
Language
English
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Día Booklist (Grades 6-8) 2024
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
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When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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