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Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
On his first day at a new school, eleven-year-old Billy goes up against the school bully in a challenge that ends up with a total gross-out date ... to eat 10 worms in one day. As the pressure mounts, Billy must summon all his strength to meet the dare, all the while keeping his weak stomach from betraying him and his big mouth from getting him in even more trouble.
Author
Series
Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"My name is not actually Penny Dreadful. It is Penelope Jones. The 'Dreadful' part is my dad's joke. But I do not see the funny side. Plus it is not even true that I am dreadful. It's just that sometimes my brilliant ideas don't work out completely brilliantly. Like, I didn't mean for my cousin to end up bald and covered in superglue, and I also didn't mean to steal our neighbor's dog and make him speak Russian ... It is not my fault. I can't help...
Author
Series
My weird school volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A.J. and the other students at Ella Mentry School brave trick-or-treating at the school secretary's house, even though it is supposedly haunted, in order to receive the best Halloween candy.
Author
Series
Ghostville Elementary volume no. 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
It's Career Day and Andrew, the class bully, wants to be a rich and famous ghost hunter. Will the Ghostville ghosts be toast? Or will Andrew get himself slimed?
