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Language
English
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A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle).
When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved...
When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved...
Author
Series
Young Amelia Bedelia (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amelia Bedelia, a literal-minded first-grader, finds her first day of school filled with confusing adventures--much to her delight.
Author
Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 3
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1954]
Physical Desc
127 p. illus. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with special cures for the not truthful, the pet forgetter, the fraidy-cat, the destructive child, and the child who continually says, "I can't find it."
Author
Series
Wayside School volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
45) Bink and Gollie
Author
Series
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Language
English
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Description
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
46) Holidays on ice
Author
Language
English
Description
Sedaris' essays and stories are at once hilarious, heartbreaking, and thought-provoking. This anthology, "Holidays on Ice", collects three previously released stories and essays and offers three brand-new ones, all revolving around Christmas.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Jack teams up with the evil King Wretch in order to convince his friends to stay with him instead of going in search of others who may have survived the monster apocalypse"--
48) Maine: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction.
50) Penrod
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Newton Booth Tarkington (1869—1946) was an American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. In his 1914 work "Penrod", Tarkington presents a series of sketches that depict the adventures of an eleven-year-old boy called Penrod Schofield living...
51) Mudshark
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
83 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and lost item locator, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, also known as Mudshark.
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Series
Stink Moody volume 2
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Stink Moody, having discovered that he can get free samples by writing letters of complaint to companies, gets so caught up in his letter writing campaign that he misses his best friend's birthday, but he plans a super surprise to make up for his mistake.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Where else can you learn a valuable lesson from a Frosted Flakes prize winner whose winnings are about to destroy his family? Humorous and insightful stories run the gamut of themes in a fiction collection that features John Grisham's response to a major typo, a school principal bent on erasing arithmetic from the curriculum.
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Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement agent, takes a job from security expert Carlos Manoso, but her boyfriend, Joe Morelli, a police officer who is looking for his cousins, Dom and Loretta Rizzi, who are suspects in a bank robbery, thinks she should be spending her nights with him.
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Series
Flat Stanley volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
87 p. : ill. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
After Stanley Lambchop goes flat once again, he uses his flatness to help win a sailboat race and to rescue a classmate from a collapsed building.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 28
Great books of the Western World volume 37
Modern Library college editions volume T15
Great books of the Western World volume 37
Modern Library college editions volume T15
Language
English
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Description
A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son. Tom falls in love with the beautiful and unattainable Sophia Western, a neighbor's daughter, whose marriage has already been arranged. When Tom's sexual misadventures around the countryside get him banished, he sets out to make his fortune and find his true identity. Against the vivid background of eighteenth-century London,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity...
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 7
Publisher
Audio Editions
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miss Julia's hopes for a peaceful time with her new husband, Sam, are ruined when Hazel Marie's troublemaking uncle comes back to town claiming Little Lloyd is not the son of Miss Julia's late husband, forcing Miss Julia to prove him wrong and save Lloyd's inheritance.
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