Mac Barnett
Author
Series
Terrible Two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks, but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
Author
Series
First cat in space volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Something terrible is happening in the skies! Rats are eating the Moon! There's only one hero for the job, a bold and fearsome beast bioengineered in a secret lab to be the moon's savior and Earth's last hope! And that hero is... a cat. A cat who will be blasted into space! Accompanied by the imperious Moon Queen and LOZ 4000, a toenail clipping robot, the First Cat in Space journeys across a fantastic lunar landscape in a quest to save the world....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Friends and pranking partners Miles and Niles face a tough challenge when their favorite goat and nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern, no-nonsense father, Former Principal Barkin, who turns the school into boot camp"--
4) Square
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his friend Circle asks him to do her portrait after praising him as a sculptor and genius, Square struggles to carve her likeness from a stone block.
5) Circle
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Triangle breaks the rule about not hiding behind the waterfall while playing hide-and-seek with Circle and Square, Circle must rescue him.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead--to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to...
10) John's turn
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every Friday, in the cafeteria, one of the kids gets up in front of the whole school and does something. A performance. Today it's John's turn."--Front jacket flap.
11) Mac undercover
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
460L
Physical Desc
148 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
One day, Mac (smartest boy in his class in a small town in California) receives a telephone call from the Queen of England, recruiting him to find the crown jewels (well, actually just the Coronation Spoon) and so Mac embarks on his first adventure as a secret agent--with the assurance that the Queen will give him a note excusing him from school.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Santa arrives at a child's house on Christmas Eve, does he go down the chimney feetfirst or headfirst? What if he gets stuck? What if there's no chimney? Maybe he slides under the door, as thin as a piece of paper? Or is it possible he pours himself through the faucet? What happens once he's inside? Whether it's shape-shifting or impromptu laundry use, Mac Barnett's iconic talent for earnest deadpan humor and Jon Klassen's irresistibly funny...
Author
Series
Mac B. kid spy volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
440L
Physical Desc
148 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1989 someone is threatening to steal the crown jewels, so the Queen of England summons Mac B. to England to protect them--and when they are stolen from a locked dungeon cell, where Mac and Holcroft, one of the warders, are supposed to be guarding them, it is up to Mac to figure out how they were stolen, and whether the thief is the descendant of an Irish soldier-of-fortune who tried to steal them in 1671, or someone else entirely.
Author
Series
Mac B. kid spy volume 3
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
148 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his arch-nemesis from the KGB.
17) Extra yarn
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
18) Jack blasts off!
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
280L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Lady is mad at Jack, she decides to send him and Rex on a one-way trip into outer space, and while she enjoys some peace and quiet, Jack and Rex get into trouble on a far-off moon, where they meet an alien named Zip.
Author
Series
Mac B. kid spy volume 5
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
167 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Investigating the theft of a priceless historical violin, Mac B., kid spy, organizes a museum patrol that finds him zip-lining into Italy with his trusty corgi sidekick on an undercover mission in the heart of enemy territory" -- Provided by publisher.
20) Jack goes West
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
310L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack and the Lady take the train West to visit a dude ranch. One night, there's a bank robbery next door, and Jack is pegged as the bandit. But thanks to Jack's new rope tricks, the real robber is caught, and Jack leaves the Wild West a free rabbit with a big secret.