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1) Gold!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Instead of making friends, seven-year-old Max Midas decides to make millions and spend it on what he loves best, gold, but one day things get lonely inside his shiny castle and Max finally learns that gold is not worth anything without friends and family by your side.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
[First American edition].
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Pig is the world's greediest pug, and on Halloween he is completely out of control, thinking up nasty tricks to play on people who do not give him the treats he thinks he deserves and never sharing with Trevor the sausage dog--until too much chocolate makes him really sick and he finally learns the error of his ways (again).
Author
Language
English
Description
Goat is tired of eating grass. First she tries the dog's breakfast washed down with some of the cat's milk. As Goat becomes more adventurous in her eating, the family notices that things have gone missing-- including Goat herself, who begins to feel colorfully unwell.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist, buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement. He then makes a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed. The Los Angeles Police Department wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing the precious old film. If Valentino wants to save his find, he has only one choice: solve the murder within
...11) Ooze is it?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of friends drives to a private lake for nighttime fishing when a meteor impacts nearby. Meteors can bring thousands of dollars to those lucky enough to find them--after all, they're just oozing with valuable minerals. But this one is oozing with something else, too--something from the darkest corners of space.
12) Greedy Gabs
Author
Publisher
Top That!
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
There once was a monster who was very, very greedy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Betty Bunny's mother takes her and her siblings to a toy store where each is allowed to pick out one item, but Betty refuses to choose just one and throws a tantrum when she learns the alternative is to get nothing.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
While creating his Christmas list Little Trevor tries to include everything, from night-vision binoculars to an invisible robot that is easy to hide, but he ends up learning that there is more to the holiday than just the gifts.
15) The rich girl
Author
Series
Fear Street volume 5
Physical Desc
132 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma Naylor fears for her life after she and her friend Sydney find a duffel bag stuffed with money and Sydney's boyfriend finds out about it.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
18) Pig the winner
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Physical Desc
1 unpaged volume : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, Pig is a greedy pug, who insists on always winning, and throws a tantrum if anything thwarts him--until one day he swallows not only all his food, but his bowl as well and when his friend Trevor saves him he learns a valuable lesson on sharing.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night, Jack--a stingy and mean man--makes a deal with the devil for a free dinner, only to regret his choice many years later when the devil comes to collect.