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Adventure and adventurers Fiction Books and reading Fiction Eccentrics and eccentricities Eccentrics and eccentricities Fiction Eccentrics and eccentricities Juvenile fiction Humorous stories Middle schools Fiction Middle schools Juvenile fiction Schools Fiction Schools Juvenile fictionAngleberger, Tom.
Summary: After several Origami Yoda-related incidences, Dwight is suspended for being a troublemaker and Yoda asks Tommy and Kellen to save Dwight by creating a case file that proves Dwight is an asset to Ralph McQuarrie Middle School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JFIC ANGDoan, Lisa.
Summary: "Jack's parents have decided to guide safaris in Africa, much to Jack's chagrin and none of their previous schemes have worked"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOAGrabenstein, Chris
Summary: "Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRAEvanovich, Janet
Summary: Brilliant and boyishly charming, Emerson Knight likes nothing better than solving an unsolvable, improbable mystery. And finding a missing island is better than Christmas morning in the Knight household. When clues lead to a dark and sinister secret that is being guarded by the National Park Service, Emerson will need to assemble a crack team for help. Since a crack team isn't available, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Evanovich 2017Spinelli, Jerry.
Summary: In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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Doan, Lisa.
Summary: Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOAKhan, Shubnum
Summary: "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONGrabenstein, Chris
Summary: "Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GRAFoley, Lizzie K.
Summary: Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FOLVanderpool, Clare.
Summary: At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boys' boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2013
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Summary: New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2010
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Summary: Befriending a very strange new student, Toulouse, helps outsider Woodrow stand up to the class bullies who have been picking on them both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JENClark, Henry
Summary: Finding a rare zucchini-colored crayon leads twelve-year-old River Monroe and his friends on an adventure with their eccentric neighbor to save Earth from invading interstellar storm troopers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CLAAtwood, Megan
Summary: Ten-year-old Angie DelMar is sure that there is something creepy and dangerous about her new neighbor, Ms. Doody: somebody who has a book entitled The ABCs of World Domination is obviously up to no good; but when Angie and her friends steal the growth serum intended to create giant insects they accidentally release it at the local day care--and the town is suddenly besieged by giant screaming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATWDahl, Roald.
Summary: Charlie Bucket has a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. No ladies in hairnets here! This factory is the ultimate candy land with singing Oompa-Loompas and a chocolate river. But along the way, the other ticket-holders meet bizarre fates. Will Charlie make it to the secret prize waiting at the tour's end?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DAHAngleberger, Tom.
Summary: Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC ANGAngleberger, Tom.
Summary: One month before the state standards test are to take place, the Origami Rebel Alliance has found powerful allies in unexpected places in their fight against the FunTime test preparation program, but Principal Rabbski has not yet declared her allegiance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ANGSpinelli, Jerry.
Summary: In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPIKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction KingAngleberger, Tom.
Summary: Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ANGSloan, Holly Goldberg
Summary: Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013
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Summary: Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRAMakkai, Rebecca.
Summary: "A dazzlingly original new novel from the acclaimed author of The Borrower. Now, Makkai returns with an ingenious novel set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony. Doug, the husband of the estate's heir, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014