Adam Rex
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Smek (Adam Rex) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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"Twelve-year-old Gratuity "Tip" Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The true meaning of Smekday" for the National Time Capsule contest, and she's not sure where to beging: when her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended to Earth and the aliens - called the Boov - abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth...
3) Cold cereal
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Cold cereal saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
5) Unstoppable!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public-access-cable vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation.
8) Why?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"The hilarious tale of an ox who is in love with a gazelle told in correspondence"--Dear Gazelle,For some time now I have wanted to write a letter to say how much I admire you. You are so graceful and fine. Even when you are running from tigers you are like a ballerina who is running away from tigers.I think that what I'm trying to say is that I love you.XO,OX
13) Unlucky charms
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Series
Cold cereal saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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"Three kids must save the world from the diabolical schemes of an evil breakfast cereal company, which has been luring magical creatures to our world through a rift in the time-space continuum"--
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Series
Cold cereal saga volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Eighth-grader Scott Doe and his companions must save the world from a terrible faerie invasion and put an end to the diabolical cereal company Goodco once and for all.
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Gumluck the wizard volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Gumluck, a young, naive wizard, does his best to help the local townspeople (and a small friendly ghost) with his sometimes critical raven sidekick, Helvetica.
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Being a monster isn't all frightening villagers and sucking blood. Monsters have their trials, too. Poor Frankenstein's cupboard is bare, Wolfman is in need of some household help, and it's best not to get started on Dracula's hygiene issues. What could be scarier?
Nineteen hilarious poems delve into the secret lives of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bigfoot, Godzilla, and others. In a range of styles that pay homage to everyone from Charles...
17) Moonday
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Will's got it rough. He's practically the only kid in school who hasn't found out that he's a wizard or a vampire or the child of a Norse god. But when a supervillain takes over the school and all the kids with powers are gone, it's up to Will to try and save the day. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.
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Shhh, listen. Do you hear that?
Oh no. Oh dear. Oh . . . my . . . godmother.
They've traveled on planes, in taxis, and across state lines. And now they're here at the doorstep, a cheesy gift in one hand, the other poised for a pinch on the cheek.
IT'S THE AUNTS! THE AUNTS ARE HERE.
One girl's all-too-recognizable experience-a visit from a troupe of overwhelming and overly enthusiastic relations-escalates to new heights of chaos, absurdity,...