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Series
Harriet the spy volume 1
Language
English
Description
The story about eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her after-school "spy route". However, when her classmates find and read her notebook, their anger and retaliation and Harriet's unexpected responses explode in a hilarious and often touching way.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Facing annihilation at the hand sof the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability-and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the...
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 3
Language
English
Description
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads - so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane...
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 12
Language
English
Description
If you think Amelia Bedelia gets things all mixed up, wait until you meet her relatives! You are invited to a special party to meet the family. Just be prepared for the wackiest bunch of people you've ever met...and the most laughs you've had in a long time.
Author
Series
The Zack files volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Who'd have thought mind reading could be such a pain? I mean, I expected to discover everyone's secrets. But someone is planning something very strange-and it's no joke!
9) Skinnybones
Author
Publisher
Bullseye
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
Alex "Skinnybones" is the smallest kid on the baseball team, but he has major talent in the wisecracking department. But even Alex knows he's gone too far when he brags he can beat the best, T.J. Stone
11) Dog crazy
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wanted a dog, really bad? This is the story of Sara who and her humorous attempts to get a dog.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c.1992
Language
English
Description
It's easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit and, immediately, all hell breaks loose.
15) The TV kid
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
1987, c1976
Language
English
Description
To escape failure, boredom, and loneliness, a young boy plunges with all his imagination into the world of television.