Adam Rex
2) Unstoppable!
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a bird and a crab team up to combine the advantages of flight and claws, it gives them an idea: why not expand the team to include other animals who have a special trait--and soon they all set out to rescue their lake from development, because united together they are unstoppable.
4) Why?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.
Author
Series
Gumluck the wizard volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
133 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gumluck, a young, naíve wizard, does his best to help the local townspeople (and a small friendly ghost) with his sometimes critical raven sidekick, Helvetica.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite being told that she is nothing but "empty calories," Candy is excited by her big break--being digested by the body, in this humorous exploration of the digestive system, presented as a Broadway musical.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
410L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Although he professes to fear nothing, it turns out that the most-feared villain in the Star Wars universe may not be so fearless after all.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
In this creative nonfiction work, just after learning that Earth's scientists no longer consider him a planet, an unhappy Pluto takes a visitor from Earth on a tour of the solar system, sharing facts along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will the children do once they come? Will they like the school? Will they be nice to him? The school has a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon recovers when he sees that he's not the only one going through first-day jitters.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
39 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread, and the Headless Horseman wishes everyone would stop drooling over his pumpkin head.
13) Cold cereal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy who may be part changeling, twins involved in a bizarre secret experiment, and a clurichaun in a red tracksuit try to save the world from an evil cereal company whose ultimate goal is world domination.
15) Moonday
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Moon disrupts a town by lowering itself into someone's backyard, a child finds a way to return the Moon to its proper place in the sky.
Author
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster.
Author
Series
Gumluck the wizard volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Helvetica the raven lays three eggs, but when she returns to her nest Viridian the dragon has moved in--so Gumluck devises a series of contests to determine who should have custody of the eggs.
18) Pssst!
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The animals at the zoo have some unusual requests for a little girl who goes to visit.
19) Tree ring circus
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
In this cumulative tale, a tree becomes a hiding place for various animals, a runaway circus clown, and even an elephant.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gratuity Tucci and her alien friend, J.Lo, journey to New Boovworld, one of Saturn's moons, to clear J.Lo's name after a string of misunderstandings.