Mac Barnett
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that's famous for one thing and one thing only: cows. In his old school, everyone knew him as the town's best prankster, but Miles quickly discovers that Yawnee Valley already has a prankster, and a great one. If Miles is going to take the title from this mystery kid, he is going to have to raise his game. It's prankster against prankster in an epic war of trickery, until the two...
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"School's out, and Miles and Niles are running wild in the woods outside town: climbing trees, exploring caves, and, yes, pranking. But these leafy, lazy days of mischief darken when bully Josh Barkin and his cadets from a nearby kids' boot camp discover the merrymakers--and vow to destroy them"--
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 4
Language
English
Description
As the Terrible Two face the end of their time together in Yawnee Valley, they are determined to pull a prank that changes the town forever.
4) Circle
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Triangle breaks the rule about not hiding behind the waterfall while playing hide-and-seek with Circle and Square, Circle must rescue him.
Author
Series
First cat in space volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Ridiculously fun and brilliantly illustrated." —Dav Pilkey, creator of Dog Man and Captain Underpants
As seen on The TODAY Show! New York Times bestselling Mac Barnett and Caldecott Honor award-winning illustrator Shawn Harris turn their massively popular The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza live cartoon into an action-packed and hysterical graphic novel series—perfect for fans of Dav Pilkey, Raina Telgemeier,
...Author
Series
Terrible two volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Friends and pranking partners Miles and Niles face a tough challenge when their favorite goat and nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern, no-nonsense father, Former Principal Barkin, who turns the school into boot camp"--
7) Square
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his friend Circle asks him to do her portrait after praising him as a sculptor and genius, Square struggles to carve her likeness from a stone block.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!
10) Telephone
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results.
11) Just because
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
12) Jack at the Zoo
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jack, Rex, and the Lady visit the zoo. But when Jack gets hungry, he sneaks into a koala's cage to steal some snacks. In a case of mistaken identity, the Lady takes the koala home and leaves Jack stuck in the cage. How will Jack escape, and will the Lady and Rex be happier with the new Jack?
13) Too many Jacks
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Lady gives Jack a gift. It's a lab kit! Jack goes into the shed to experiment and doesn't come out until he's made another Jack and another Jack and another. But one Jack was already too many. Can Jack stop his naughty robot clones before they destroy the town?"--Publisher
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This is a story about a duck and mouse who get swallowed by a wolf, and then decide to live in his belly. Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up. When a woeful mouse is swallowed by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not alone: a duck has already set up digs, and, boy, has that duck got it figured out! Turns out it's pretty nice in there, with delicious food and elegant table settings, courtesy of the wolf's unchecked gluttony....
15) The skunk
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A man is followed by a skunk all day until the tables turn."--
16) Jack at bat
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Lady and Rex have a baseball game against the Big City Brats. Jack is not allowed to swing the bat, so he is told to be the Bat Boy. That is, until the Lady Town Ladies and the Big City Brats are tied. It's up to Jack to hit a home run, but on the way to home plate he spots some snacks...
17) Mac undercover
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One day, Mac (smartest boy in his class in a small town in California) receives a telephone call from the Queen of England, recruiting him to find the crown jewels (well, actually just the Coronation Spoon) and so Mac embarks on his first adventure as a secret agent--with the assurance that the Queen will give him a note excusing him from school.
18) Jack blasts off!
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When the Lady is mad at Jack, she decides to send him and Rex on a one-way trip into outer space, and while she enjoys some peace and quiet, Jack and Rex get into trouble on a far-off moon, where they meet an alien named Zip.
19) Noisy night
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A clever picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades K &1
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Books You May Have Missed 2021: Early Readers and Picture Books
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Books You May Have Missed 2021: Early Readers and Picture Books
Description
Zapped into his favorite video game by a sneaky bolt of lightning, mischievous Jack finds himself racing around game puzzles while outmaneuvering a pounding boss.
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