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My weirdest school volume 12
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English
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New lunch lady Ms. Hall is obsessed with healthy food and she makes it her mission to get A.J. and the gang to eat more vegetables, but they won't take this sitting down.
Author
Series
My weirdtastic school volume 4
Language
English
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Everyone likes veggies, right? Wrong! When Principal Stoker decides that Ella Mentry School needs a vegetable garden, A.J. and his friends just want to plant junk food. But when gardening expert Miss Nichol comes to oversee the planting, things get totally out of control. What could possibly go wrong?
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 2
Language
English
Description
A Wind in the Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. He is extremely bright, so much so that he gets punched around a lot for being "different." He is also strangely, seriously ill (mitochondritis -- the...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Lavinia the badger catches the culprit that has been raiding her vegetable garden, she agrees to let the frightened bunny go for the promise of a great reward and she is astonished by the musical magic that the coming night brings.
5) Digging in
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Paige Moresco found her true love in eighth grade and lost him two years ago. Since his death, she's been sleepwalking through life, barely holding on for the sake of her teenage son. As Paige stares at her neglected lawn, she knows she's hit rock bottom. So she does something entirely unexpected: she begins to dig. As the hole gets bigger, Paige decides to turn her entire yard into a vegetable garden.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Three interconnected tales reveal the dangers, both from within and without, of life in a vegetable garden as leeks meet one of Santa's reindeer, carrots plot an escape, and an unlikely romance leads to an inevitable conclusion.
Author
Publisher
Apples & Honey Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's just three days until the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. A young girl and her family are getting ready for the traditional holiday feast. Family and friends gather to help harvest and clean the fall root vegetables, mix them with honey and dried fruits, and cook them into the traditional sweet vegetable stew, called tzimmes, 'for a sweet new year.' It's hard but satisfying work that leaves everyone with aching arms, sore feet...
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-story treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry....
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The competition is friendly and just a little fierce at the annual Llanelen agricultural show as town and country folk gather for the outdoor judging of farm animals and indoor judging of cakes, pies, pastries, chutneys, jams and jellies, along with vegetables, fruit and flowers. But this year, there's a new show category: murder.
The competition is friendly and just a little fierce at the annual Llanelen agricultural show. Town and country folk...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Nine funny stories on modern life whose heroine is a woman photographer. As she goes about photographing objects of interest she dispenses her opinions. Organic vegetables, reproductive surgeons, smelly buses, you name it, she has an opinion. A debut in fiction.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Manning was once an internationally renowned journalist and war correspondent; today she's a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to concentrate, full of pain, and haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to Ontario to her sister's small vegetable farm to recover. But Hannah experiences strange visions of a woman emerging from the icy-cold mist. Is the woman real or the product of her damaged brain? Which would be worse?
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English
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"Paras (short for Perestroika) is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall - she's a curious filly - and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance in the City of Light. She's dazzled, and often mystified, by the sights, sounds and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthair pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without...
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After reuniting with her fellow Little Goddess Girls on the Hello Brick Road, Aphrodite hopes they are going to have another big adventure. When a talking carrot named Prometheus leads them to a mysterious magical box named Pandora, which has the words Do Not Open written across the top, the girls wonder what could be inside. It turns out that Pandora might be the key to solving the mystery of who or what is accidently burning a magical vegetable...
15) The handbook
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
There's nothing Jake likes more than some good trash-picking, so when his elderly neighbors move out and leave an especially promising-looking pile of household refuse on the curb, he goes right for it. He only has the chance to grab one box before his mom catches him and orders him in for dinner, though. When mysterious goings-on begin to occur in the neighborhood, the trio investigates the hidden box from Jack's garage. In it, they find the Secret...
16) Rival magic
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©[2020]
Language
English
Description
Antonia may not be the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, but she's worked hard to win her place as apprentice to renowned sorcerer Master Betrys. Unfortunately, even her best dancing turnip charm might not be enough when Moppe the scullery maid turns out to be a magical prodigy. Now that Betrys has taken Moppe on as a second apprentice, Antonia's path to wizarding just got a bit more complicated. But when Betrys is accused of treason,...
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Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Life is sweet when you live in Confection, Oregon. Or, at least, that's how it's supposed to be. But on a summer day, when tourists and locals alike gawk at the majestic mountains, quaint Craftsman houses, and lovely flowers--particularly the renowned Confection Rose--the last thing anyone has come to see is a dead body, unearthed from a shallow grave by a curious dog. A bathrobe-clad Lexi rushes next door to her neighbor's backyard to find her pooch,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Vic Brown did not want to go to camp this summer. It's nice being back with her friends in the woods of New Hampshire, but Vic still can't forget about the secret reason her mom wanted her and her brother out of the house--or how much her family is going to change. When her homelife is blowing up, it can be hard to focus on campfires and canoeing. But there is something about summer and surprises that goes together like blueberry pancakes and maple...
Author
Series
Siruela Nuevos Tiempos volume 144
Publisher
Ediciones Siruela
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
En persa, Syngué significa zla piedra de la pacienciay. Se dice que esta piedra está en La Meca y alrededor de ella millones de peregrinos dan vueltas contándole sus desgracias. El día en que no le quepan más desgracias explotará, ese día tendrá lugar el Apocalipsis. Pero aquí, en un pueblo de Afganistán, la piedra de la paciencia es un hombre inconsciente por una bala alojada en la nuca. Su mujer permanece a su lado. Le echa en cara no...
20) Coldfall wood
Author
Series
Joshua Raines novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Steven Savile returns to the world of Glass Town with this gritty new fantasy where reluctant hero Julie Gennaro will combat a forgotten god. Every legend promises the same thing: at the time of the land's greatest need the heroes shall return. What they don't mention is that we are the greatest threat our green and pleasant land has ever known. In the legends, saving the land never involves the slaughter of its inhabitants. Legends lie. In a single...
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