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Ramona Quimby volume 7
Language
English
Description
Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich uncle, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job.
2) Dog days
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video gamemes and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas."--Provided by publisher.
3) Old school
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 10
Language
English
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Greg Heffley and his town voluntarily go electronics-free.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Language
English
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Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Briggs hates pigeons, and for good reason. Thanks to his funny way of walking and his leg braces, his classmate TJ started calling him “Pidge,” a nickname he’d love to dump. So when the Science Squad recruits students for a project to solve why pigeons come in so many different colors, Anthony is anything but interested . . . until he learns that the reward is spending a night at the Natural History Museum. He signs up in a flash, and...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Meet Ellie—an enthusiastic, bumbling teenager who is fascinated with Mars. When a misunderstanding lands her in the astronaut training program for the first human mission to Mars, Ellie is determined to prove her worth.
The hilarious Long-Lost Secret Diary series put readers inside the heads of unlucky people in unfortunate situations. The accessible, irreverent stories will keep young readers laughing as they learn the importance of not being...
7) The getaway
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 12
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley and his family escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation, but sun poisoning, stomach troubles, and venomous creatures all threaten their vacation.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Monster is as monster does, but Frankenstein Frightface Gordon is totally the wrong shade of ghastly green—pale, baby blue, in fact—and he's more concerned with keeping his pants neat and tidy than scaring the pants off his victims. But when a new law is passed to rid Uggarland of misfits such as Frank, he must decide if he will become the monster his parents can be proud of or be the monster he can be proud of. Trusting the monsterliest monster...
9) Hard luck
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Language
English
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"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
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Series
Young Amelia Bedelia (Picture books) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"It's Amelia Bedelia's first day of school, and she can't wait! What could be better than hopping on the bus, putting her nose in a book, and being glued to her seat?"--Page [4] cover.
11) The ugly truth
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Language
English
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While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
12) Rodrick rules
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 2
Language
English
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Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
14) Fudge-a-mania
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English
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Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It’s summer vacation, but twelve-year-old Raksha isn’t doing much relaxing. There is one project left before her Science Squad team earns their last badge (and a trip to Hawai‘i on the line!), when she gets an opportunity to attend a highly competitive fashion camp that is too good to pass up. It isn’t long before her Science Squad work hunting for zombie bees is taking over her life. She hardly has time to prepare for her fashion camp runway...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Clarita Rosita Santiago Romero hasn’t made many friends since moving to North Carolina last year. But that changes when she joins her local Science Squad and simultaneously gets sucked into a quest to defend a sea turtle and her eggs from poachers. But how much impact can a group of kids have on one sea turtle’s life?
Welcome to the Science Squad, a citizen science organization for curious kids who love nature and science! Follow along as Squad...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Meet Ann—a smart but unlucky teenager keeping a diary of her life as she hunts for dinosaur bones. When she gets an opportunity to search for fossils in the American West, Ann is determined to turn her luck around and show the world her discoveries.
The hilarious Long-Lost Secret Diary series put readers inside the heads of unlucky people in unfortunate situations. The accessible, irreverent stories will keep young readers laughing as they learn...
18) Pinkalicious
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Series
Pinkalicious volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
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Fudge books volume 1
Language
English
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Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.
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Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 15
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
WEIRD?! Nothing weird EVER happens in The Bad Guys. Like, you would NEVER see a chain-saw monster confronting a velociraptor who has eaten an elderly piranha, or the disturbing antics of a deranged dentist running amok with an oversized drill. NOPE. None of that nonsense here. So relax and be entirely unsurprised by the Bad Guys' next adventure! Bad guys (Scholastic) series,
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