Kevin O'Malley
2) Ghoul school
Author
Publisher
Muddy Boots
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Bea A. Fraid goes to an all-ghoul school where students learn how to make haunted houses, paint terrifying pictures, and eat lady fingers and spare ribs for lunch. But Bea doesn't want to be scary; she wants to dance and sing and tell jokes, which frequently lands her in the principal's office. Find out how Bea becomes the scariest ghoul of all in this delightful Halloween caper for kids.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Cooperatively writing a story for school, a girl imagines a king and queen who have a baby named Sweet Piper who can talk to birds, while a boy names the baby Sweet Viper and gives him super-strength, cool wrestling moves, and a motorcycle and sunglasses.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"A humorous look at how famous people got caught, including Joan of Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and more! From the award-winning team that brought you How They Croaked and How They Choked. Outlaw, assassin, art thief, and spy, these fourteen troublemakers and crooks--including Blackbeard the pirate, Typhoid Mary, and gangster Al Capone--have given the good guys a run for their money throughout the ages. Some were crooked, some were deadly, and some...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1930s...the world was again at war, hardly more than twenty years after the First World War had ended... Leaders of every country had to try to end the war as fast as possible and using whatever means they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive, deflect, and confuse their enemies."--front flap
11) Cinder Edna
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live with cruel stepmothers and stepsisters, have different approaches to life; and, although each ends up with the prince of her dreams, one is a great deal happier than the other.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Heather L. Montgomery sees a rattlesnake flattened on the side of the road, her first instinct is to pick it up and dissect it--she's always wanted to see how a snake's fangs retract when they close their mouths, and it's not exactly safe to poke around in a live reptile's mouth. A wildlife researcher with a special penchant for the animals that litter the roadways, Heather isn't satisfied with dissecting just one snake. Her fascination with...
13) The great race
Publisher
Nutmeg Media
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Retells the traditional tale of the tortoise and the hare as a match between the very vain Lever Lapin and Nate Turtle, who is tired of all the publicity Lever's speed generates.