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62) Finding Orion
Author
Pub. Date
c2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"To win Mr. Lemoncello's new television game show, Kyle and his team have to break out of their comfort zone and walk a mile in other characters' shoes and figure out how to unlock a series of locks and break out of the game before their competition!"--
When Kyle and his team compete to be on Mr. Lemoncello's new television game show, they must make it thought five rooms by solving puzzles, but the game master has some surprises in store.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated.
Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different...
65) The Doldrums
Author
Series
Doldrums volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
66) Bellefleur
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1980]
Description
A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken...
Description
The eccentric Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by patriarch, George, whose fortune came from the tract home development business. Oldest son George, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues. Youngest son, Buster, wastes his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay is a vain socialite. The only sane one is Lindsay's twin brother Michael,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
On a return trip from Germany, Monk and Natalie stop over in Paris. They visit the catacombs, a vast, underground cavern in the center of the city lined with millions of human bones. Monk picks up a skull and announces that the person was murdered. Most of the bodies came from a battlefield, but Monk believes the wound that killed this man came from a modern weapon made in the last few years. He thinks someone hid a recent murder victim among the...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a thirteen-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt.
70) Killing Adonis
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently lying in a coma amidst an armada of premium machinery. The...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"Four lucky kids go on a scavenger hunt inside Mr. Lemoncello's Gameworks factory, where they compete for a chance to win a titanium ticket"--
Author
Series
Dark unwinding volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"When a rumor that her uncle is squandering away the family fortune surfaces, Katharine Tulman is sent to his estate to have him committed to an asylum. But instead of a lunatic, Katharine discovers a genius inventor with his own set of childlike rules, who is employing a village of nine hundred people rescued from the workhouses of London. Katharine becomes torn between protecting her own livelihood and preserving the peculiar community she grows...
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new investigation to persuade the school board to reinstate Dwight
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
All is not well for brilliant but boorish Dr. Martin Ellingham as the hit British dramedy returns. To Martin's utter disgust, his medical practice remains under official scrutiny because of his pre-existing blood phobia, and he is forced to attend refresher courses starting with phlebotomy. His wife, Louisa, and aunt Ruth urge him to take this risk to his career seriously, but events conspire against him
78) Skies like these
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While visiting her eccentric aunt who lives in Wyoming, twelve-year-old Jade befriends a boy who believes he is a descendant of Butch Cassidy.
79) Pillage
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Oggie Cooder loves cheese so much that he carries a slice of cheese with him wherever he goes. Its not just for a snack -- Oggie is an excellent charver. (Charving is when you chew a piece of cheese to carve it in the shape of something.) The kids at school think Oggie's charving is a little strange. But when a big TV show comes looking for people with unusual talents, Oggie is suddenly Mr. Popular. Can Oggie charve a path to fame and score an invite...