James and the Giant Peach -- by Roald Dahl (Author) (Book - Child)
"When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes "the...
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
How to Eat Fried Worms -- by Thomas Rockwell (Author) (Book - Child)
"How to Eat Fried Worms has happily repulsed children since its original publication in 1973. Now youngsters can experience this classic story in a whole new yucky way, by listening to it on...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
No One is Going to Nashville -- by Mavis Jukes (Author) (Book - Child)
"Sonia's relationship with her father and stepmother is so warmly real that all three characters seem to leap into life in a story that is a refreshing tonic to mean old. But, at its heart the book...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Muffin Fiend -- by Daniel Pinkwater (Author) (Book - Child)
"From Pinkwater we expect the pure wackiness of a mind given to bizarre bolts of imagination. Absurdities and a few gaps in logic aside, we get it in spades. Someone is stealing all the muffins in...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Tales from the Jungle Book -- by Rudyard Kipling (Author) (Book - Child)
"An adaptation of the well-known adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Beware! These Animals Are Poison! -- by Barbara Brenner (Author) (Book - Child)
"Discusses various facts about poisonous animals with emphasis on how they deliver their venom to other animals as a means of survival." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
You Can't Eat Peanuts in Church and Other Little-Known Laws -- by Barbara Seuling (Author) (Book - Child)
"A cartoon joke book presenting some unusual laws in effect at one time or another in the United States." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Two Thousand Pound Goldfish -- by Betsy Byars (Author) (Book - Child)
"Warren Otis wants to be a horror movie director, so he spends a lot of time making up monster moview in his head. He's really beginning to enjoy his latest creation--starring Bubbles, an innocent...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Buffalo Nickels Blues Band -- by Judie Angell (Author) (Book - Child)
"Twelve-year-old Eddy Levy relates the very short history of his 'blues' band." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Night Swimmers -- by Betsy Byars (Author) (Book - Child)
"Wither their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her younger brothers." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)