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(0)Kelly Murphy
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Mary Hayes can't stand her orphanage for another night. But when an attempted escape through the stovepipe doesn't go as well as she'd hoped, Mary fears she'll be stuck in the Buffalo Asylum for Young Ladies forever. The very next day, a mysterious woman named Madame Z appears at the orphanage requesting to adopt Mary, and the matron's all too happy to get the girl off her hands. Soon, Mary is fed a hearty meal, dressed in a clean,...
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
Author
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
4) Masterpiece
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The continuing adventures of beastologist-in-training, Nathaniel Fludd, as he accompanies his intrepid Aunt Phil on a dangerous mission across West Africa to find a deadly basilisk that is missing and begins to find clues relating to the mysterious disappearance of his parents.
7) Fiona's luck
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
AD 810L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The greedy Leprechaun King has locked away all the luck in Ireland and the whole country has fallen in to despair. Through clever charades, Fiona outwits the Leprechaun King and restores luck to the land.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 370L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When a bad storm drives all of the farm animals into the barn, can they set aside their fears and welcome wild animals, too?
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 5
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
James invites Marvin and his cousin Elaine on a trip to the country, and it proves to be a very exciting adventure for the forever friends.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
104 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marvin the beetle finds adventure when his human friend James takes him to school.
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume no. 2
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Spotting a ghostly girl in the park who resembles the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency's new client, Lady Ada and Mary discover links between the girl and a case involving a hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a devious servant.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 4
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
James's father, Karl, and Christina, his friend from the museum, are getting married! James is the ring bearer and he is excited but also nervous. He loves Christina yet he is worried about losing his dad to a different family and a different life. And what if, at the wedding, James drops the ring? His beetle best friend Marvin promises to help him, but Marvin ends up with an even more critical job when something goes wrong. Will the whole wedding...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the folk song "Over the Meadow," the occupants of a medieval castle spend their day spinning, cleaning, cooking, and dancing, until they receive a special surprise from their dragon neighbors.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 2
Publisher
Square Fish, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
104 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joining his family to collect discarded things that they can put to use, little Marvin the beetle enlists James' help to save an injured Uncle Albert.
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
154 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Nathaniel and Aunt Phil are summoned to the Welsh countryside to calm the giant dragons known as wyverns, they suspect the problem was caused by the same sinister man who has been trying to steal the Book of Beasts.
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beastologist-in-training Nathaniel Fludd and his Aunt Phil nurse a mysteriously ill unicorn, try to stop Obediah from taking the unicorn's horn, and finally get a solid lead on the whereabouts of Nathaniel's parents.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this adaptation of the Chicken Little story, Loony Little, worried that the polar ice cap is melting, sets out to tell the Polar Bear Queen, gathering animal friends as she goes--but, as Sealy Sally warns them, the Polar Bear Queen is more interested in making a lunch of Loony Little and her friends." --
19) Faraway things
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Secundo enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.
