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Diary of a wimpy kid--big shot : Diary of a wimpy kid series, book 16 /

Kinney, Jeff.


Unabridged. In Big Shot, book 16 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and sports just don't mix. After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look slim. But in sports, anything can happen. When everything is on the line and the ball is in Greg's hands, will he rise to the occasion? Or will he blow his big shot? See the Wimpy Kid World in a whole new way with the help of Greg Heffley's best friend in the instant #1 bestsellers Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal, Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure and Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories!
Date Published:2021

Unabridged. In Big Shot, book 16 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and sports just don't mix. After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look slim. But in sports, anything can happen. When everything is on the line and the ball is in Greg's hands, will he rise to the occasion? Or will he blow his big shot? See the Wimpy Kid World in a whole new way with the help of Greg Heffley's best friend in the instant #1 bestsellers Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal, Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure and Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories!

Date Published:2021

Diary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever /

Kinney, Jeff.,


Greg struggles to stay on Santa's 'nice' list while snowed in with the rest of the Heffley family in the days leading up to Christmas.
Date Published:2011

Wish you were dead

Strasser, Todd


Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.
Date Published:2009

Dog man : fetch-22 /

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-,


Petey the Cat is out of jail, and he has a brand-new lease on life. While Petey's reevaluated what matters most, Li'l Petey is struggling to find the good in the world. Can Petey and Dog Man stop fighting like cats and dogs long enough to put their paws together and work as a team? They need each other now more than ever -- Li'l Petey (and the world) is counting on them!
Date Published:2019

Assassin

Sutherland, Tui, 1978-


Title proper from title frame. "Deathbringer is ready to be the next assassin for the NightWings. If he can just convince them to send him along on one mission with his mother, Quickstrike, he'll prove that he can help the NightWings decide who wins the war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. But when their mission takes an unexpected turn, Deathbringer has a terrible choice to make...one that will change his path forever, and perhaps alter the course of the entire war"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2015

Title proper from title frame. "Deathbringer is ready to be the next assassin for the NightWings. If he can just convince them to send him along on one mission with his mother, Quickstrike, he'll prove that he can help the NightWings decide who wins the war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. But when their mission takes an unexpected turn, Deathbringer has a terrible choice to make...one that will change his path forever, and perhaps alter the course of the entire war"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2015

Stellarlune

Messenger, Shannon.


In this stunning ninth book in the New York Times and USA T ODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie and her friends discover the true meaning of powerâ€”and evil. Sophie Foster changed the game. Now she's facing impossible choices: When to act. When to trust. When to let go. Her friends are divided and scattered, and the Black Swan wants Sophie to focus on their projects. But her instincts are leading her somewhere else. Stellarluneâ€”and the mysterious Elysianâ€”might be the key to everything. But finding truth in the Lost Cities always requires sacrifice. And as the Neverseen's plans sharpen into terrifying focus, it appears that everyone has miscalculated. The Lost Cities' greatest lie could destroy everything. And in the battle that follows, only one thing is certain: nothing will ever be the same.
Date Published:2022

In this stunning ninth book in the New York Times and USA T ODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie and her friends discover the true meaning of powerâ€”and evil. Sophie Foster changed the game. Now she's facing impossible choices: When to act. When to trust. When to let go. Her friends are divided and scattered, and the Black Swan wants Sophie to focus on their projects. But her instincts are leading her somewhere else. Stellarluneâ€”and the mysterious Elysianâ€”might be the key to everything. But finding truth in the Lost Cities always requires sacrifice. And as the Neverseen's plans sharpen into terrifying focus, it appears that everyone has miscalculated. The Lost Cities' greatest lie could destroy everything. And in the battle that follows, only one thing is certain: nothing will ever be the same.

Date Published:2022

Thanksgiving on Thursday

Osborne, Mary Pope


"A stepping stone book." Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.
Date Published:2002

Global counterstrike : international counterterrorism /

Katz, Samuel M., 1963-


Europe -- France : the GIGN -- Germany : GSG-9 -- Great Britain : the SAS -- Italy : the GIS and NOCS --Spain : the GEO -- The Middle East -- Egypt : Force 777 -- Israel : Sayeret Mat'kal and the Ya'ma'm -- Jordan : CTB-71 -- Other international forces. School Library Journal, January 2005. Horn Book, April 2005. Library Media Connection, March 2005. Describes the history and current workings of various contemporary counterterrorist organizations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and South America.
Date Published:2005

Europe -- France : the GIGN -- Germany : GSG-9 -- Great Britain : the SAS -- Italy : the GIS and NOCS --Spain : the GEO -- The Middle East -- Egypt : Force 777 -- Israel : Sayeret Mat'kal and the Ya'ma'm -- Jordan : CTB-71 -- Other international forces. School Library Journal, January 2005. Horn Book, April 2005. Library Media Connection, March 2005. Describes the history and current workings of various contemporary counterterrorist organizations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and South America.

Date Published:2005

Harry Potter and the cursed child.

Thorne, Jack.


Title proper from title frame. "Special rehearsal edition script"--cover. "Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne"--Page facing t.p. "First produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender & Harry Potter Theatrical Productions"--Page facing t.p. "The official script of the original West End production"--Page facing t.p. "J.K. Rowlings' Wizarding World"--Half t.p. School Library Journal, October 2016. New York Times, September 2016. Horn Book, November 2016. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2016. Publishers Weekly Annex, August 2016. Library Media Connection, January 2017. "As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear"--OCLC.
Date Published:2016

Title proper from title frame. "Special rehearsal edition script"--cover. "Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne"--Page facing t.p. "First produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender & Harry Potter Theatrical Productions"--Page facing t.p. "The official script of the original West End production"--Page facing t.p. "J.K. Rowlings' Wizarding World"--Half t.p. School Library Journal, October 2016. New York Times, September 2016. Horn Book, November 2016. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2016. Publishers Weekly Annex, August 2016. Library Media Connection, January 2017. "As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear"--OCLC.

Date Published:2016

Day of the Dragon King

Osborne, Mary Pope


"Stepping Stone book." The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.
Date Published:1998

Lifeboat 12 : based on a true story /

Hood, Susan, 1954-,


In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
Date Published:2018

Making friends with billy wong

Scattergood, Augusta.


A powerful story set in small-town Arkansas in the 1950s that illuminates the friendship surrounding the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the segregated south. Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting the new sixth graders in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction. Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda Bowman. Who needs friends like these!And then there's Billy Wong, a Chinese-American boy who shows up to help in her grandmother's garden. Billy's great-aunt and uncle own the Lucky Foods grocery store, where days are long and some folks aren't friendly. For Azalea, whose family and experiences seem different from most everybody she knows, friendship has never been easy. Maybe this time, it will be.Inspired by the true accounts of Chinese immigrants who lived in the American South during the civil rights era, these side by side storiesâ€”one in Azalea's prose, the other in Billy's poetic narrativeâ€”create a poignant novel and reminds us that friends can come to us in the most unexpected ways.
Date Published:2016

A powerful story set in small-town Arkansas in the 1950s that illuminates the friendship surrounding the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the segregated south. Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting the new sixth graders in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction. Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda Bowman. Who needs friends like these!And then there's Billy Wong, a Chinese-American boy who shows up to help in her grandmother's garden. Billy's great-aunt and uncle own the Lucky Foods grocery store, where days are long and some folks aren't friendly. For Azalea, whose family and experiences seem different from most everybody she knows, friendship has never been easy. Maybe this time, it will be.Inspired by the true accounts of Chinese immigrants who lived in the American South during the civil rights era, these side by side storiesâ€”one in Azalea's prose, the other in Billy's poetic narrativeâ€”create a poignant novel and reminds us that friends can come to us in the most unexpected ways.

Date Published:2016

Dog Man : Fetch-22.

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-


"Petey the Cat is out of jail, and he has a brand-new lease on life. While Petey's reevaluated what matters most, Li'l Petey is struggling to find the good in the world. Can Petey and Dog Man stop fighting like cats and dogs long enough to put their paws together and work as a team? They need each other now more than ever, Li'l Petey--and the world--is counting on them!"--OCLC.
Date Published:2019

Dork Diaries #1 : Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life /

Russell, Rachel Renee.


Horn Book, October 2009. Kirkus Review, May 2009. Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes and sketches in her diary about her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, and about giving up on being part of the elite group, before figuring out a way to simply be herself.
Date Published:2009

Ms. Hannah is bananas!

Gutman, Dan.


A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
Date Published:2005

Amari and the night brothers

Alston, B. B.


School Library Journal starred, November 2020. Booklist starred, November 2020. Pub Weekly, November 2020. Kirkus Starred, October 2020. Horn Book, January 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December 2020. Library Media Connection, January 2021. "Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she's certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton--if only she can wrap her head around the idea of magicians, fairies, aliens, and other supernatural creatures all being real."--Publisher.
Date Published:2021

School Library Journal starred, November 2020. Booklist starred, November 2020. Pub Weekly, November 2020. Kirkus Starred, October 2020. Horn Book, January 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December 2020. Library Media Connection, January 2021. "Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she's certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton--if only she can wrap her head around the idea of magicians, fairies, aliens, and other supernatural creatures all being real."--Publisher.

Date Published:2021

The space mission adventure

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)


Ziggy and the other members of the Black Dinosaurs go to space camp where they learn about the space program.
Date Published:2006

I broke my trunk!

Willems, Mo.


School Library Journal starred, May 2011. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2012. Booklist, April 2011. Horn Book, October 2011. Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.
Date Published:2011

Cat Kid comic club.

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-


Kirkus Starred, January 2023. "Excitement and imagination run wild as Naomi, Melvin, Poppy, Gilbert, Curly, and their siblings get back to making comics with originality and laughter. But wait--have they cleaned their rooms yet?!"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2022

Curse of the broomstaff

Whitesides, Tyler.


Spencer, Daisy, and their little team of rebels must find the source of all magical Glop and destroy it before it destroys the world as they know it.
Date Published:2013