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Series

Mr Gum

Language

English

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Description

This is weird, wacky and one in a million: a cross between Roald Dahl and Monty Python. Mr Gum is back in this second hilarious book and he's as nasty as ever! In fact, he's absolutely grimsters. But this book's not just about him. Read this book and you'll meet a gingerbread man named Alan Taylor who has electric muscles! Plus, all our favourite characters are back: the little girl called Polly, the evil butcher called Billy William The Third,

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3) What's for dinner, Mr Gum?

Author

Series

Mr Gum

Language

English

Formats

Description

Adult Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Mr. Gum's unquenchable hunger for rancid kebabs threatens to tear the town apart and Polly and her friends must try to prevent it.

4) The next queen of heaven: a novel

Author

Maguire, Gregory

Language

English

Formats

Description

eAudiobook, eBook, Paperback

"As the new millennium approaches, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Clocked by a Catholic statuette, Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues. Her daughter, Tabitha Scales, and her sons scheme to save their mother or surrender her to Jesus--whatever comes first. Meanwhile, choir director Jeremy Carr, caught between lust and ambition, fumbles his way toward Y2K. Only a modern master like Gregory Maguire can spin a tale this...

5) Mr. Lemoncello's library olympics

Author

Grabenstein, Chris

Series

Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

Formats

Description

Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever Library Olympics...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading.

6) Cecil the pet glacier

Author

Harvey, Matthea

Publisher

Schwartz & Wade Books

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Ruby Small's embarrassingly eccentric parents take her on a vacation to Norway where she acquires an unwanted pet, a glacier named Cecil, who finds a way to melt Ruby's heart.

7) A day with Wilbur Robinson

Author

Joyce, William

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Language

English

Description

Children's Book, eAudiobook

While spending the day in the Robinson household, Wilbur's best friend joins in the search for Grandfather Robinson's missing false teeth and meets one wacky relative after another.

8) What we found in the sofa (and how it saved the world)

Author

Clark, Henry

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10

Language

English

Formats

Description

eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

Finding a rare zucchini-colored crayon leads twelve-year-old River Monroe and his friends on an adventure with their eccentric neighbor to save Earth from invading interstellar storm troopers.

9) Shoot the moon

Author

Letts, Billie

Language

English

Formats

Description

From one of America's best-loved storytellers - the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Where the Heat Is - comes a tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years.
In 1972, windswept DeClare, Oklahoma, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, Gaylene Harjo, and the disappearance of her baby, Nicky Jack. When the child's pajama bottoms were discovered on the banks of Willow Creek,...

10) The boy who swam with piranhas

Author

Almond, David

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Description

When his mentally unstable uncle's obsessions take an unexpectedly cruel turn, young Stanley Potts is forced to leave and joins a carnival of eccentric characters before meeting the legendary Pancho Pirelli, who swims in piranha tanks and invites Stanleyto become his apprentice.

11) Mr. Monk goes to Germany

Author

Goldberg, Lee

Series

Adrian Monk novels volume 6
Mr. Monk

Language

English

Formats

Adult Book, eAudiobook

Description

Reverting to his OCD habits when his therapist, Dr. Kroker, heads off for a conference in Germany, an anxious Adrian Monk follows his shrink to Europe and comes face to face with a man who might be the person responsible for his wife's death.

12) You're a bad man, Mr. Gum!

Author

Series

Mr. Gum volume 1
Mr Gum

Language

English

Formats

Description

Brave-hearted young Polly attempts to stop mean old Mr. Gum from poisoning Jake, a huge dog adopted by the town of Lamonic Bibber that keeps destroying Mr. Gum's garden, and thus provoking the angry fairy who lives there.

13) The Matchstick Castle

Author

Graff, Keir

Publisher

Puffin Books

Language

English

Description

Eleven-year-old Brian's summer turns out a lot less boring than expected when he encounters a huge, wacky house in the forest and befriends the eccentric family that lives there.

14) Mr. Lemoncello's great library race

Author

Grabenstein, Chris

Series

Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

Appears on list

I Love Libraries

Formats

Description

Adult Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Mr. Lemoncello invites Kyle and his friends to participate in a fact-finding game, but when they learn a few surprising facts about Mr. Lemoncello, they must unravel the truth before his library and empire are destroyed.

15) Drive your plow over the bones of the dead

Author

Tokarczuk, Olga

Language

English

Formats

Description

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbour, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...

16) Pine Island home

Author

Horvath, Polly

Publisher

Puffin Canada

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Description

"The McCready sisters -- Fiona, Marlin, Natasha and Charlie -- are left on their own when their missionary parents die and leave them in Borneo. When no immediate aunt or uncle steps forward to take them on, they start fearing they will be separated in foster care. Luckily, a great aunt Martha (whom they've never met) says they can live with her, on Pine Island in British Columbia. Unfortunately, when they get there, they learn that she has passed...

17) Mr. Gum and the secret hideout

Author

Publisher

Egmont

Language

English

Description

When something goes terribly wrong in Lamonic Bibber and Mr. Gum is nowhere to be found, Polly and Friday face their biggest challenge yet.

18) Mr. Monk and the two assistants

Author

Goldberg, Lee

Series

Adrian Monk novels volume 4
Mr. Monk

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, Large Print

Description

The husband of Monk's former assistant, Sharona, has been arrested for murder. Now back in San Francisco, she's ready to reclaim her place in Monk's life — much to the chagrin of his current assistant, Natalie. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few unsettling snags in the case against Sharona's husband, and may be up against a killer who not only understands him, but is one step ahead.

19) The last summer of the Camperdowns

Author

Kelly, Elizabeth

Language

English

Formats

Adult Book, eAudiobook

Description

A twelve-year-old girl keeps silent after witnessing a crime near her home on Cape Cod during the summer of 1972 as her parents struggle with running a campaign.

20) Weave a circle round

Author

Maaren, Kari

Publisher

Tor, a Tom Doherty associates book

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15

Language

English

Description