Geoff Rodkey
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a year on Mars, a young boy and his family migrate to the planet Choom, but the inhabitants of Choom, the Zhuri, who look like giant mosquitoes, don't really like humans and it up to the boy and his family to change their minds if they hope to survive.
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 1
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class...until he realizes he can turn the story of the cartoon superhero he's been drawing for years into an actual MOVIE! There's just one problem: he has no idea what he's doing. So he'll need help, from his friends, his teachers, Sierra, the strong-willed classmate with creative dreams of her own, even Tyrell, the local bully who'd be a perfect movie villain if he weren't too terrifying to talk...
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A humorous oral history that chronicles twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper's heated competition to become sixth grade class president of their New York City private school, through text messages, photographs, screenshots, and more.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
529 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When the entire technological infrastructure of the 21st-century quits working, the privileged but clueless Altman family struggles to hold it together in the face of water shortages, paramilitary neighbors and well-mannered looting as they try to figure out what is going on.
Author
Series
Marcus volume 2
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Marcus's movie goes viral and he gets an invite to the Helen show, he experiences the challenges of sudden fame and risks losing the friends who helped him along the way.
Marcuss movie, Toothpick vs. the Doom, is a HIT! But the only thing harder than making a movie is making a SECOND one. Marcus needs to come up with another great idea fast. Too bad his film crew (aka friends) are too preoccupied with their MeTube channels to notice. An invite...
Author
Publisher
Rodale Kids, an imprint of Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A glitchy time machine strands a bumbling janitor and a brilliant scientist in the distant past, and they must find their way home before they're attacked by angry cavemen or eaten alive by a saber-toothed tiger.
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company/Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2015], 2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, on the First (and last) Annual Culvert Prep Middle School Scavenger Hunt For Charity, and the adventures of twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper as their highly competitive teams scour New York for treasure." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper race to become more popular on social media sites in order to win a high-stakes bet"--
Author
Series
Chronicles of Egg volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody's trying to kill you. Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his guts. But when Egg's father hustles their family off on a mysterious errand to fabulously wealthy Sunrise Island, then disappears with the siblings in a freak accident, Egg finds himself...
11) The shaggy dog
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Deputy District Attorney Dave Douglas takes his job very seriously -- so seriously, that his wife and family hardly ever see him. A case involving an animal laboratory finds Dave once again taking an extended leave of absence from his frustrated family. His luck takes a turn for the worst after he is inadvertently infected by a top-secret genetic-mutation serum that transforms the two-legged lawyer into a four-legged sheepdog. Though his current...
12) Daddy day camp
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson are a pair of fathers who attempt to keep their summer camp running even though they are under heavy economic strain. To whip together a group of kids who have problems following orders and to help improve their financial situation, Hinton brings in his military trained father - even though he and his father have been on the outs. Soon the campers, and the fathers, are involved in a series of adventures that will make...
13) Daddy day care
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen (1.85:1) and full screen (1.33:1) vers.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious children's academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Frank Collins suffers from writer's block, he decides to start a day care for his father-in-law (Danny Trejo) and other seniors as a way to make quick cash, while giving him time to still work on his next book. Eventually getting a small group to care for, Frank soon learns that these are not your typical seniors and they cannot easily be corralled.
15) RV
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bob is determined to combine work and pleasure. He rents a recreational motor home to drive his wife and kids on a scenic vacation to the Colorado Rockies. While trying to enjoy some much needed, quality time with his family, Bob is secretly preparing a presentation for a high-stakes corporate merger. Their dysfunctional road trip leads to repeated encounters with the perky Gornicke family. The Gornicke's don't appear to be too bright, but to Bob,...
16) Jumanji / RV
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104, 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jumanji. When Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its unimaginable powers until he is magically transported into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game's spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan tries to outwit the game's powerful forces.
RV. Bob is determined to combine work and pleasure. He rents a recreational motor home to drive his wife and...