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Marvin Redpost: is he a girl? (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #Bk. 3)
By Louis Sachar, Barbara Sullivan. 1993
When Casey Happleton tells Marvin that if he kisses his elbow he'll turn into a girl, Marvin's curiosity gets the…
best of him. It's very difficult to do, but Marvin finally kisses his elbow and is shocked to find himself thinking, acting, and maybe even looking like a girl. For grades 2-4Marigold and Grandma on the town (I Can Read Bks.)
By Stephanie Calmenson, Mary Chalmers. 1994
Marigold spends the day in town with her grandmother. They buy Marigold a hat, learn to make friends with the…
wind, go out to lunch, and get their pictures taken. For grades K-3Space brat 2: Blork's evil twin (Space Brat Ser. #No. 2)
By Bruce Coville. 1993
When Blork's class goes to the Museum of New Inventions, Blork gets angry with a classmate and wanders away from…
the group to calm down. Blork sees a machine in the room he enters and just has to try it out. Suddenly there are two Blorks! Sequel to Space Brat (DB 44413). For grades 2-4Space Brat 3: the wrath of Squat (Space Brat Ser. #3)
By Bruce Coville, Katherine Coville. 1994
Now that Blork has become a hero for saving the city, he has been invited to the Galactic Celebration--the biggest…
party in history. But his old enemy, Squat, decides it is time to seek revenge for having been humiliated by Blork. Sequel to Space Brat Two: Blork's Evil Twin (DB 44414). For grades 2-4Eye of the beholder
By Daniel Hayes. 1992
Trouble just seems to follow the twosome of Lymie and Tyler. Who would imagine that the "art treasures" they created…
with a power drill would be mistaken for the works of a famous artist? Sequel to The Trouble with Lemons (DB 36886). For grades 6-9Jingo Django
By Sid Fleischman. 1995
Jingo has been in an orphanage for seven years when a man offers two hundred dollars for him. The man…
tells Jingo he wants help in finding Jingo's father, but Jingo secretly decides to lead the man on a wild-goose chase that will put them in gold country. For grades 4-7McBroom's wonderful one-acre farm: three tall tales
By Sid Fleischman, Quentin Blake. 1992
Josh McBroom, his wife, and their eleven children are heading west when they are offered a farm in Iowa. The…
farm is under water, but a dry spell soon turns it into one acre of land with very rich soil. Crops grow in minutes, trees in hours. The McBrooms love their new farm, but they must fight wind that carries off small children and grasshoppers that eat anything green. For grades 3-6The thing that bothered Farmer Brown (Orchard HC Picture Books)
By Nadine Bernard Westcott, Teri Sloat. 1995
Just as Farmer Brown is about to fall asleep something begins to buzz around his bedroom, keeping him awake. What…
a time he has chasing the pesky mosquito! And when it finally decides to leave the farmer alone, it flies away and annoys the animals too. For preschool-grade 2Alpha beta chowder (Michael di Capua Bks.)
By William Steig, Jeanne Steig. 1992
A collection of twenty-six nonsense verses in alphabetical order! There are verses titled "An Appetizer for Alexander," "Bellicose Brigand vs.…
Belligerent Bear," "Yakety Yak," and "Blizzard Zaps Zelda." For grades 2-4Out of my head: coon dogs that lie to you, killer pancakes, and other lunacies
By Powell, LeRoy Powell, Leroy Powell, Cal Warlick. 1990
Powell works as a news cameraman in Atlanta, Georgia. But his real job--the best job in the world anyone can…
have, he says--is thinking. His essays include his thoughts on how pennies can make you rich, the biggest problems in the world--yours, and how Moon Pies must be washed down with Royal Crown ColasReal ponies don't go oink!
By Patrick F McManus, Patrick F. McManus. 1991
In this collection of essays, McManus again treats his audience to the exploits of his wife Bun, his buddies Retch…
and Eddie, and himself. He recounts the events that led to his dog's climbing a tree, to the class clown's finally making the fierce math teacher laugh, and to the garage door's gobbling up the dog. He tells of the problems in pouring a concrete walk and of fireworks with the potential to bring down a B-29. BestsellerWhen my love returns from the ladies room, will I be too old to care?
By Lewis Grizzard. 1987
A collection of one hundred of Grizzard's newspaper columns. Topics covered include: women, computers, sports, eating out, modern life, and…
movies. Grizzard discusses such things as women wearing ties, electric hair dryers, life span in Georgia, a new soft drink, cheeseburgers without mushrooms, dinner at the White House, and updated versions of Clue and MonopolyLove trouble is my business
By Veronica Geng. 1988
A collection of parodies and satires, most of which appeared originally in the "New Yorker." One of Geng's devices entails…
lampooning cultural trends and literary styles simultaneously. Every essay has an appendix, sometimes longer than the essay itself, about Geng's chums, her career, and how the piece came to be writtenHalloween howls: riddles that are a scream
By Giulio Maestro. 1983
While Reagan slept
By Art Buchwald, Steve Mendelson. 1983
Green pastures
By Dorothy Williams. 2000
Ruby, the rabbi's widow, knows she's in trouble when her longtime nemesis, Essie Sue, talks her into housing Essie Sue's…
twin cousins, Lester and Larry. The boys are in town for pre-Bar Mitzvah schooling from Rabbi Kevin Kapstein. Essie Sue's plans to orchestrate the grandest Bar Mitzvah feast in Temple Rita's history. The star attraction is sure to be Herman Guenther, master lox cutter. But when he meets an untimely death, Ruby investigates, tracing the victim's roots back to Nazi-era Denmark. Her investigation takes her from Eternal, Texas to Alaska to New YorkGunk baby: A novel
By Jamie Marina Lau. 2022
The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centers, rows of estates, and thematically designed neighborhoods. Twenty-four-year-old Leen is going to…
open an ear-cleaning and massage studio in the Topic Heights Shopping Centre, taking her mother's Chinese ritual to the West to bring people back to their bodies. But something is not quite right in Par Mars. Managers are being attacked, and when Leen befriends Jean Paul, a pharmacist who is obsessed with a cryptic online forum, she finds herself involved in a community that is intent on disrupting the routines of capitalism in increasingly troubling ways. With a fierce intellect and masterful storytelling, Jamie Marina Lau brings to life a world that is devastatingly close to our own. Taking aim at consumerism and class, orientalism and the Zen movement, violence and middle-class boredom, Gunk Baby is inventive, unforgettable, and from a voice younger, newer, and more critical than mostSometimes I wonder if poodles like noodles
By Laura Joffe Numeroff, Laura Numeroff, Tim Bowers. 1999
Tradin' tales: stories from a Montana back porch
By Ken Overcast. 2007