Chris Grabenstein
Author
Series
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
12 year old Jake's middle school is about to be shut down--unless...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Kyle and his teammates are back, and the world-famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, is at it again! This time Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from across America to compete in the first-ever Library Olympics. Will it be fun? Well, like the commercials say . . . HELLO! It's a Lemoncello! But something suspicious is going on -- books are missing from Mr. Lemoncello's library. Between figuring out mind-boggling challenges, the kids will have to band...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To win Mr. Lemoncello's new television game show, Kyle and his team have to break out of their comfort zone and walk a mile in other characters' shoes and figure out how to unlock a series of locks and break out of the game before their competition!" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six lucky kids go on a scavenger hunt inside Mr. Lemoncello's Gameworks factory, where they compete for a chance to win a Titanium Ticket" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman. He gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival, where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Welcome to Wonderland volume 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old P.T. Wilkie may be the greatest storyteller alive. But he knows one thing for a fact: the Wonderland Motel is the best place a kid could ever live! All-you-can-eat poolside ice cream! A snack machine in the living room! A frog slide! A giant rampaging alligator! (Okay, that last one may or may not be made up.) There's only one thing the Wonderland doesn't have, though--customers. And if the Wonderland doesn't get them soon, P.T. and...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First graphic novel edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape." -- Provided by publisher.
11) No is all I know
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 450L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Toddler Oliver says "no" to everything-from brushing his teeth and cleaning to swinging on the swings-until his cousin Jess comes to visit and Oliver discovers all that is possible when you say "yes.""--
12) Dog Squad
Author
Series
Dog Squad volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fred, a scrappy and lovable dog, gets cast as a stand-in for the lead role in Dog Squad, a show about crime-fighting dogs, and he soon finds out the action doesn't always stop on screen" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The author of the Mr. Lemoncello books brings his wit and humor to a pint-sized audience in this picture book debut that turns the universal dilemma of getting kids to sleep on its head. It's time for a nap but, just like stubborn toddlers everywhere, Annalise Devin McFleece won't have anything to do with bedtime. Dad tries to encourage sleepiness by pushing her around the park in her stroller. Along the way, they pass a man sitting on a bench, dog...
14) Genius Camp
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jake McQuade-the smartest kid in the universe-goes to a camp for geniuses, where he goes up against the Virtuoso quantum computer, the smartest machine in the universe"--
Jake McQuade is the smartest kid in the universeand he's back to defend his title! This time, he is heading off to a camp for geniuses sponsored by billionaire tech mogul (and brilliant inventor) Zane Zinkle. But genius camp is not like regular camp. There are limo...
15) Cat crew
Author
Series
Dog squad volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fred, a stray dog who became the star of the show Dog Squad, is working on a new show called Cat Crew-but when he notices the felines acting strange, he wonders if the cat crew is being electronically controlled"--
16) The crossroads
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
17) Evil genius
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jake McQuade's the smartest kid in the universe--or at least he was. But just as his training with the secret agency known as the Consortium is about to start, Jake's jelly beans go missing! And to make matters worse, they (and Jake's genius!) might be wearing off right when he needs his smarts most! Jake needs to solve this mystery fast. Who stole the jelly beans and why? Can Jake figure out what's going on, recover the missing jelly beans, and stop...
Author
Series
Welcome to Wonderland volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"P.T. and Gloria try to save the Wonderland again by getting a teen singing sensation to shoot a movie at the motel"--
19) The Hanging Hill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During rehearsals for a play based on his stepmother's bestselling children's books, eleven-year-old Zack discovers that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead by offering up a human sacrifice.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library and coauthor of I Funny and Treasure Hunters, comes a series of spine-tingling mysteries to keep you up long after the lights go out.
Halloween is nearing, the one day of the year when the ghostly plane is close enough to the human plane to allow mischief and mayhem. But the ghosts who have their eye on Zack aren't thinking mischief,...
Halloween is nearing, the one day of the year when the ghostly plane is close enough to the human plane to allow mischief and mayhem. But the ghosts who have their eye on Zack aren't thinking mischief,...