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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Brian's summer turns out a lot less boring than expected when he encounters a huge, wacky house in the forest and befriends the eccentric family that lives there"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When his mentally unstable uncle's obsessions take an unexpectedly cruel turn, young Stanley Potts is forced to leave and joins a carnival of eccentric characters before meeting the legendary Pancho Pirelli, who swims in piranha tanks and invites Stanley to become his apprentice.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly inviting the class misfit to her birthday party, Ginger bonds with Lyla when the latter arrives early, supports her party choices, and gives her a unique gift, an encounter that compels Ginger to reconsider earlier notions.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Finding a rare zucchini-colored crayon leads twelve-year-old River Monroe and his friends on an adventure with their eccentric neighbor to save Earth from invading interstellar storm troopers.
5) Floors
Author
Series
Floors volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Rion Kwirk and his unconventional family head to his grandfather's funeral, he tries to uncover the truth about Papa Kwirk's complicated relationship with Rion's father.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Cooper Goodman and Justice and Liberty Gordon investigate the eccentric residents of Windy Bottom, Georgia, after the remains of Coop's long-missing grandmother are uncovered and his Gramps is the prime suspect.
8) 3 below
Author
Series
Floors volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Having explored every part of the fantastical Whippet Hotel, Leo discovers that it hides even more amazing secrets beneath its foundation, in an adventure that puts the hotel's fate in Leo's hands.
Author
Publisher
Viking
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
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Art historian, Elizabeth Clarke, is sent to a remote island in Southern Greece to acquire a rare female nude sculpture for a Los Angeles collection. Disoriented by time zones, migraines, and suspicious details surrounding the figure's discovery, she's dependent on her flirtatious but guileless translator. The last thing she expects is to be so pulled to his wife, Theo, a subversive artist who has amassed a small following for her provocative self-portraits,...
12) The doldrums
Author
Series
Doldrums volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
McQuarrie Middle School's students miss Origami Yoda when Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy, but he sends Sara a paper Fortune Wookiee that seems to give advice just as good as Yoda's--even if, in the hands of girls, it seems preoccupied with romance.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Grant Falloon's dreams of winning the Babblemoney Games are hindered by his parents' alternative lifestyle, he creates his own internet country to get back into the competition"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 10
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Monk's been swindled out of his savings but now it's payback time, in the latest original mystery featuring everyone's favorite OCD detective. In the midst of a financial crisis, the SFPD fires Adrian Monk as a consultant. Monk figures he can live off his savings for a while. Then Natalie learns that Monk invested his money some time ago with Bob Sebes, the charismatic leader of Reinier Investments, who's just been arrested on charges of orchestrating...
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 9
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Ever since a 1962 unsolved train robbery made it famous, the people have made their way to the little down of trouble in California's gold country. some people come to see the Gold Rush Museum. but most come search for the booty that the train robbers supposedly dumped off the golden Rail Express in the botched heist. When the museum watchman, a retired SFPD cop is murder, Monk and his assistent, Natalie, are sent to investigate.--From publisher's...
19) Tasmania
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquests Editores
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"In November 2015, the narrator, a journalist with a scientific background, went to Paris to cover a climate summit a few days after the jihadist attacks. The crisis that he plans in the gloomy atmosphere of the city seems to be a mirror of a more intimate crisis: the one that affects the relationship he maintains with his partner, Lorenza. And in search of a meaning to everything he is experiencing, to his fears and his doubts, while preparing a...
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