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7061) El pez naumero catorce
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
7062) Diary of a spider
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A young spider discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being a spider, including how to spin webs and avoid vacuum cleaners.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Join host Ira Glass and his company, as they bring a different theme to life each week, in the format of the popular Chicago radio show by the same name. In Escape, teenage boys in Philadelphia impress girls using a mode of transportation obsolete in their neighborhood since the 19th century, and a young man's fight for independence from his mother is complicated by some very specialized circumstances. In Two wars, we learn about two foreigners in...
7065) Heck where bad kids go
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When a freak marshmallow explosion sends both Milton and Marlo Fauster to Heck, a reform school run by Bea 'Elsa' Bubb, the Principal of Darkness. Although his sister, a naughty kleptomaniac, deserves to be there, Milton believes he shouldn't. Now the siblings must find a way to escape before they are stuck in Heck for eternity.
7067) Home for the holidays
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Garfield discovers that Christmas spirit isn't about greed and gluttony, but about caring and sharing; Jon's boss lets him stay at his new country house, but the house turns out to be haunted!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p1984
Description
In "It's a dog's life" Hank goes to visit his sister in town. There he enjoys the garbage patrol of a lifetime and faces down a brood of sassy town cats. Hank contracts a case of "soap hydrophobia" and ends up imprisoned in the dog pound! Is there any hope of escape for everyone's favorite cowdog? In "Murder in the Middle Pasture" Hank investigates a brutal murder on the ranch. Only problem, no one's talking! After a dangerous fact-finding mission,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020?], c1959
Description
In his search for identity, a middle-aged American millionaire travels to a remote area of Africa, where he encounters a tribe of natives. Henderson's awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life win him the admiration of the tribe--but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere hero into messiah. A hilarious, often ribald story, Henderson the Rain King is both an examination of the forces that drive a man through life...
7070) The mighty skullboy army
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Brazen robots! Hostile corporate takeovers! Ill-fated interns! Criminally insane turnips! Distinctly unhelpful helper monkeys! And hats, dear God, hats a plenty! All this and more await any brave soul ready and willing to enlist in the ranks of the Mighty Skullboy Army!"--P.[4] cover.
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"A sleepwalking sister! Space dreams and scientific surveys! A sudden surge of songwriting inspiration! Slippery, silent worm hunting and the stealthy seeking of a warm bath! The search for a sticky ghost! There is no such thing as sweet slumber in the Loud House. Witness what kind of antics the Loud kids - Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, Lily, and Lincoln (plus best friend Clyde) can get up to in the wee hours! One thing's for...
7075) Slim's good-bye
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2001
Description
When the ranch falls on hard times, Slim the cowboy decides to hit the road in search of a new job and inadvertently takes Hank and Drover with him.
7076) The runaway windmill
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"When an enemy spy (in a chicken suit!) sneaks on the ranch, it's going to be a wild day for Hank. Will Hank be able to protect the ranch and some newfound valuables of his? But Hank's biggest challenge will be whether he (and Drover) can lead a rescue to save Slim from his ride on a runaway windmill"--Container insert.
7077) The Teacher's funeral
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Russell Culver is 15 in the year 1904. He dreams of leaving rural Indiana to become part of a large wheat-threshing crew in the Dakotas, but he's forced to stay in school, where his sister Tansy has just become the new teacher. Through the autumn, Russell observes the strange goings-on in the classroom, including a fight for Tansy's affection between a rough-and-tumble guy named Glenn and Russell's own best friend, Charlie. Russell resigns himself...
7078) Winter blunderland
Author
Series
Middle school novels volume 15
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Sometimes middle school feels like a dangerous mission in the cold, unforgiving tundra. Sometimes it literally is. Will Rafe survive his most (frost)biting adventure yet?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"What does the perfect song sound like? Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn’t give this type of question the time of day. As a straight B-student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving perfection. But that all changes when he stumbles across the LK-2000—a strange keyboard cursed with the soul of an old jazz musician. Malcolm soon learns that the only way to free this musician’s soul is...