Stephanie Spinner
2) Paddywack
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Paddywack is a spunky pony who jumps, trots, and walks beautifully, as long as his rider remembers his treats.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Bickerstaff and his friend Henry are prisoners on Grax, a hostile planet. Aric, their tiny alien friend, has been taken from them—perhaps forever. And now they're eating lunch in a Graxian jail, face to face with a Turinga Death Machine! Can life get any more dangerous? Kids will love this very funny Stepping Stones HUMOR title!
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been ten years since Richard Bickerstaff sat down to breakfast and an alien climbed out of his cereal bowl! Join Richard and Aric, a tiny, wisecracking creature from the planet Ganoob, as they battle to save the world from evil aliens in Aliens for Breakfast, Aliens for Lunch, and Aliens for Dinner. We're reissuing the trilogy with brand-new covers sporting a space age 10th Anniversary logo. Now a new generation of readers...
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
No one knew the boy they called "Jumping Badger" would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull, as he was later called, was tribal chief and holy man of the Lakota Sioux tribe in a time of fierce conflict with the United States. As the government seized Native American lands, Sitting Bull relied on his military cunning and strong spirituality to drive forces out of his territory and ensure a future homeland...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the true story of an African grey parrot who was the subject of a graduate student's scientific experiment on animal intelligence and who astonished everyone with its ability to add, understand concepts and speak hundreds of words.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"While other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop with home movies to amazing audiences around the world with epic blockbusters. He has directed four of the most successful films of all time and has won two Academy Awards for Best Director. From Jaws to Lincoln, young readers and aspiring filmmakers will be fascinated by the life of this famous director"--...
12) The mummy's tomb
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 24
Publisher
A Bantam Skylark Book
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
13) Quiver
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress Atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
While staying with their hippie grandparents, ten-year-old twins, Tod and Tessa, discover an unusual shop at the nearby mall, where they find a lie-detecting electronic pet, a Do-Right machine, and other alien gadgets which help them foil their nemeses, the evil Gneiss twins.
15) Gerbilitis
Author
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When Garth takes the class gerbil home for the summer, he discovers that he can talk not only with Weebie but also with other animals.
20) Dracula
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Not Supplied
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Not Supplied
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English
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This is the classic, hypnotic story of the undead creatures of the night--and the human lives they touch--as they relentlessly seek to satiate an accursed craving for their only sustenance: human blood. A Gothic novel of immense proportions, "Dracula" has only strengthened its grip on the public over the course of the last century.