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2) No brainer
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it's up to Greg to save his crumbling school before it s shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best...
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 28
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Both a picaresque and Bildungsroman, The History of Tom Jones follows the life of its hero from his discovery as a foundling on the property of Squire Allworthy in England's West Country to his banishment from the estate and subsequent journey to London to escape an arranged marriage. Tom's many dalliances and misadventures throughout add to the charm of this bawdy romantic comedy.
Author
Language
English
Description
"B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new...
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives, Eugenia Lincoln tries to get rid of the instrument by selling it, destroying it, and giving it away, but nothing works.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 1
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.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven-year-old Stink Moody discovers that he can get free samples by writing letters to candy companies and plans a surprise for his best friend's birthday.
11) The terrible two
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Trenton, New Jersey's favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he's out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in.
13) Squirm
Author
Language
English
Description
Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
14) I lost my tooth!
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Friends search for Zoom Squirrel's missing baby tooth. Includes "acorn-y jokes" and "cool facts."
Author
Series
Stick Dog volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to snatch some breakfast treats for his hungry pals, Stick Dog tries to stop a moving truck, outfox a man on a telephone pole, calm down a caffeinated Karen, and manage a confrontation between his friend Poo-Poo and a squirrel.
Author
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
Description
The Red and the Black, by Stendhal, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
Author
Language
English
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...
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Series
Wayside School volume 2
Language
English
Description
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during show and tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School."
Author
Publisher
Islandport Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Albert's vacation was amazing or so he thought. To friends, his time in Maine was boring. Dull. Lame. They've got a more vivid and exciting idea of what Albert could and should have done on his trip. But Albert might just have a surprise for his friends, after all.
20) Popcorn Bob
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When her school and her dads commit to a healthy-eating campaign and ban all snack foods, including popcorn, young Ellis sneaks a bag of popcorn out to the garage, where a ravenous kernel that refuses to pop comes to life and begins triggering riotous chaos.
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