Douglas Rees
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Edna the very first chicken is hatching her very first eggs! With long, sharp teeth and claws, one of her chicks, Sinclair, is an unusual chicken. But when Gorgosaurus threatens his family, Sinclair might just prove to be the best chicken ever. Heartfelt and humorous, this delightful picture book celebrates dinosaurs, chickens, the importance of family, and the joy of accepting who we are."--Amazon.
3) Vampire High
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.
Author
Publisher
Running Press Teens, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Elektra Kamenides is well on her way to becoming a proper southern belle in the small Mississippi college town she calls home. That is, until her mother decides to uproot her and her kid sister Thalia and start over in California. They leave behind Elektra's father--a professor and leading expert on Greek mythology, and Elektra can't understand why. For her, life is tragedy, and all signs point to her family being cursed.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Willa Cathcart Wilmerding, the bravest girl in the world, is told she must stop her nightly tradition of howling at the moon, she decides to run away. High in the mountains, she meets Buttercup the Bigfoot, a friend unlike any other! Willa and Buttercup do everything together. They leap up and down the mountains, soar over mighty crevasses, and make each other crowns of flowers--but their favorite thing to do is climb a high peak and HOWL at...
7) Uncle Pirate
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Wilson is one of the most bullied fourth-graders at the chaotic Very Elementary School until his long-lost uncle, Desperate Evil Wicked Bob--a pirate--and his talking penguin arrive and begin making everything ship-shape, one classroom at a time.
Author
Publisher
Delacourt Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Cody's Goth cousin Turk moves into his house, enrolls at Vlad Dracul, and decides to turn an abandoned nineteenth-century mill into an art center, the vampire (Jenti) students are not pleased, and Cody's hopes for a great sophomore year are blighted.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"An action-packed and hilarious picture book about a family of chickens with one family member who is a little different from the rest. Edna the very first chicken is hatching her very first eggs! With long, sharp teeth and claws, one of her chicks, Sinclair, is an unusual chicken. But when Gorgosaurus threatens his family, Sinclair might just prove to be the best chicken ever. Heartfelt and humorous, this delightful picture book celebrates dinosaurs,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Publications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In Tahiti in the 1890s, sixteen-year-old Joe, a native Californian and a sailor, determines to avenge the death of his best friend at the hands of a gun smuggler known as The White Wolf, and finds an unlikely ally in the artist, Paul Gauguin.