Louis Sachar
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 8
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Marvin Redpost's new friend Casey shares with him her magic crystal that can make wishes come true, things get out of control.
Author
Series
Wayside School volume 4
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Join Mrs. Jewls's class and try solving over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers.
Author
Series
Wayside School volume 5
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Join Mrs. Jewls's class and try solving over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers.
24) The cardturner
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
25) Monkey soup
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
With the help of her toy monkey, a girl prepares an all-encompassing soup full of band-aids, crayons, and tissues, for her father who is sick in bed.
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 4
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Marvin is pleased when his teacher asks him to take care of her dog while she's away, but he soon finds that there's more pressure involved than he likes.
27) Hoyos
Author
Series
Barco de vapor volume 131
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 3
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.
29) Holes
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Youth Large Print.
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't...
Author
Series
Wayside School volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Your favorite students and teachers have been waiting for you! That includes SHARIE, who loves her striped and spotted umbrella more than anything; KATHY, who has a bad case of oppositosis; JASON, who has to read the longest book in the world; and the rest in Mrs. Jewls's class on the thirtieth story, who are busily collecting toenail clippings. They all need to prepare for the Ultimate Test, despite the Cloud of Doom looming above them."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Unabridged].
Language
English
Description
Meet third-grader Marvin Redpost as he deals with questions about his identity, being shunned as a nose picker, dog sitting for his teacher, a visit from the President of the United States on the day when everyone is dressed in old clothes, a peculiar new classmate who may be an alien, fear of his new mountain bike, and the question about whether or not a crystal is really magic.
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