Pilkey, Dav
Summary: When Professor Pippy P. Poopypants comes to Jerome Horwitz Elementary School to teach science, and he goes off the deep end because students make fun of his name, only Captain Underpants can save the school from the professor's perilous plot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: "Space travel is tough. No air, cosmic radiation, absolute lack of other life-sustaining essentials. What better way to deal with space travel than to man ships with creatures that regenerate or don't need air, or are immune to various maladies? In a future world where zombies, vampires and werewolves co-exist with 'normal' humans on Earth, these ships are staffed by a motley crew of various...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACStephenson, Neal
Summary: In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Summary: When a group of nerdy best friends each begin receiving robots that start to act like real creatures, it is up to them to save the day, and the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LERScalzi, John
Summary: "Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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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 MARMarciano, Johnny
Summary: Klawde is not your basic cat. He's an emperor from another planet, exiled to Earth. He's cruel. He's cunning. He's brilliant ... and he's also Raj Banerjee's best friend. Following a humiliating, defeated effort to conquer Earth, Klawde has had it with this this dismal planet. And anyway, what's the point in conquering such an insignificant corner of the galaxy, when there's an entire universe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MARGraff, Lisa (Lisa Colleen)
Summary: "As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRAScieszka, Jon
Summary: On their second mission to find another habitable planet, the four mutant animals, LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug, splash land on the Water Planet, run by some suspiciously friendly clams, who are very eager to swap planets--and if the AstroNuts can stop arguing among themselves they may find out why before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Scieszka 2020Scieszka, Jon
Summary: So far the AstroNuts have failed to find a suitable planet, but NNASA has come up with a new plan: send the the four animal astronauts back through time on Earth where they are to contact early homo sapiens and somehow set them on a path to a sustainablefuture--trouble is, humans seem inferior to many of the other species (especially the wolves), so the AstroNuts come up with a Survival of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCIValente, Catherynne M.
Summary: "Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VALChhibber, Preeti
Summary: Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, Doreen Green, America Chavez, and other young Marvel heroes join forces to defeat . . . the academic decathlon? Welcome to the Avengers Institute!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHHBarnett, Mac
Summary: In a world of villainous cowboys, high-speed chases, and falling pianos, can our iconic trio find their way back to one another and save the Moon Queen before it's too late? And who would want to poison her? With few she can trust in her own royal court, Moon Queen and First Cat will have to journey alone to find the antidote. If only LOZ 4000 were still with them... but our once-heroic toenail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: First Cat, LOZ 4000, and the Moon Queen work together to uncover who poisoned the Queen's soup. Unbeknownst to our trio, secret forces are working against them. With villainous cowboys about, high-speed chases, and pianos falling from the sky--can our iconic trio find their way back to one another and save the Moon Queen before it's too late?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Best friends always stick together--especially when they are in trouble!Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot always watch out for each other--that's what friends are for! This time, they've managed to mangle the Ricotta family's minivan. Somehow they have to find a way to make up for their mistake. When a mean little Martian named Major Monkey invades Earth, Ricky and his Robot race to save the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PILScieszka, Jon
Summary: "Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Scieszka 2015Willis, Connie
Summary: Francie is in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding-- complete with a true-believer bridegroom. Aliens obviously don't exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one. She's not the only victim of the alien's abduction spree. He has acquired a con man named Wade, a sweet little old lady with a casino addiction, a retiree with a huge RV and a love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILAdams, Douglas
Summary: This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAFerraiolo, Jack D.
Summary: "Batman has Robin, Wonder Woman has Wonder Girl, and Phantom Justice has Bright Boy, a.k.a. Scott Hutchinson, an ordinary dude by day and a superfast, superstrong sidekick by night, fighting loyally next to his hero...despite his doubts about the social benefits of wearing yellow tights. After an embarrassing incident involving said tights and the revelation that his lifelong nemesis,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FERGutman, Dan
Summary: Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini is not Harry Houdini, the famous escape artist who died in 1926. But Harry does live in Houdini's old New York City home, and he definitely knows everything there is to know about Houdini's life. What is he supposed to do, then, when someone starts texting him claiming that they're Houdini, communicating from beyond the grave? Respond, of course. It's hard for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GUTAkahori, Satoru.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SORJane, Emily
Summary: When the spaceships arrive-- and then depart suddenly without a word-- it creates many forms of uncertainty on our planet. When his kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather watches the massive ships hover overhead and is certain that her life is finally going to start. After twenty catatonic years, Olives is suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANMoore, Scotto
Summary: "Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another living person. But when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOMcLaughlin, Rhett
Summary: "It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town's cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019