Rodari, Gianni
Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODThomas, Jan
Summary: When a pest eats all the vegetables in the garden, Duck comes up with a plan to stop whatever is feasting on his crops.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN THOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOO'Donnell, Tom
Summary: Mysterious happenings are causing major trouble at Horace Hotwater Middle School! Sam Gibbs and his super-strong tiny buddy, Hammie Rex, keep encountering creepy abnormal objects, including a floating sports jersey and a runaway go-kart. Sam doesn't believe in ghosts, but he has to admit the hauntings are getting weirder-- and more dangerous. Could bizarre mutant animals be the cause?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC O'DODormer, Frank W.
Summary: "A quirky picture book in the spirit of Monty Python about two bumbling knights who keep finding objects in a stove (a sword, a shield, a helmet) ... objects that ominously belong to their missing friend Harold"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DORSlater, Dashka
Summary: Escargot is a beautiful French snail who only wants to be your favorite animal and get to the delicious salad at the end of the book, even if he has to try a carrot, which he hates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SLABlabey, Aaron
Summary: "Pop quiz! You are on the roof of a skyscraper. Every floor of that building has nasty things that just don't like you. And you really need to get to the basement. Whaddaya do?! (And no, you can't just join the B-Team and fly away in their glamorous new spaceship.) Think quick, chico, because the multiverse is getting worse!"--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLAMarciano, Johnny
Summary: While his evil pet cat Klawde, an exiled emperor from across the universe, faces a treasonous plot to overthrow him, Raj has to survive an even more perilous group: the students and parents of the Elba Middle School newspaper club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MARWillems, Mo.
Summary: Pigeon wishes he could drive a bus, train, and airplane and then a little duckling tells Pigeon about something that "goes" without wheels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2005