Adam Rex
3) Unstoppable
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a bird and a crab team up to combine the advantages of flight and claws, it gives them an idea: why not expand the team to include other animals who have a special trait -- and soon they all set out to rescue their lake from development, because united together they are unstoppable.
Author
Series
Gumluck the wizard volume 1
Language
English
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2024 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 2 & 3
Books You Might Have Missed 2023: All Ages
Titles Worth Trying: Fantasy [Grades K-2]
Books You Might Have Missed 2023: All Ages
Titles Worth Trying: Fantasy [Grades K-2]
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Description
Gumluck, a young, na�ive wizard, does his best to help the local townspeople (and a small friendly ghost) with his sometimes critical raven sidekick, Helvetica.
Author
Series
Gumluck the wizard volume 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Helvetica the raven lays three eggs, but when she returns to her nest Viridian the dragon has moved in--so Gumluck devises a series of contests to determine who should have custody of the eggs.
8) Cold cereal
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy who may be part changeling, twins involved in a bizarre secret experiment, and a clurichaun in a red tracksuit try to save the world from an evil cereal company whose ultimate goal is world domination.
Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are being relocated, with her cat and a renegade extraterrestiral named J. Lo as her copilots.
Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gratuity Tucci and her alien friend, J.Lo, journey to New Boovworld, one of Saturn's moons, to clear J.Lo's name after a string of misunderstandings"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Why?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.
17) Moonday
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
When the Moon disrupts a town by lowering itself into someone's backyard, a child finds a way to return the Moon to its proper place in the sky.
18) Tumblebaby
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books / Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"A sleeping baby rolls out of the house and across the nation on a series of larger-than-life adventures"-- Provided by publisher.
19) Echo
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone always agrees with Junior, including the mysterious voice from across the valley. 'Junior Junior is the greatest in the world!' he shouts. 'Junior Junior is the greatest in the world!' the echo shouts back. Until one day, a new girl moves in next door. A disagreeable, rude girl who doesn't think Junior is right all the time. Unable to stand living next door to someone like that, Junior runs to the valley to meet his echo. But when being...
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