Jennifer L. Holm
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid in a...
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 2
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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The New York Times bestselling SUNNY series continues as Sunny finds herself in the spotlight in a competition unlike any other...
Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and
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Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He's bossy. He's cranky. And weirdly enough ... he looks a lot like Ellie's grandfather, a scientist who's always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this pimply boy really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth?
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Series
Sunny side up volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...
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Language
English
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As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
She may be a miracle, but she's no proper young lady! It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it's particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Newbery Honor–winning, New York Times–bestselling, and as full of fun and adventure as it is of deeper family issues.
School’s out for summer, and Penny and her cousin Frankie have big plans to eat lots of butter pecan ice cream, swim at the local pool, and cheer on their favorite baseball team—the Brooklyn Dodgers! But sometimes things don’t go according to plan. Penny’s mom doesn’t...
School’s out for summer, and Penny and her cousin Frankie have big plans to eat lots of butter pecan ice cream, swim at the local pool, and cheer on their favorite baseball team—the Brooklyn Dodgers! But sometimes things don’t go according to plan. Penny’s mom doesn’t...
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Series
Babymouse volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel following the Halloween adventures of Babymouse, an imaginative young mouse.
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 4
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It's summer and Sunny is bored. Most of her friends are out of town. Her mom wants her to babysit way more than Sunny wants to babysit. There's nothing good on TV. The only cool place that's cool is the community pool. Sunny loves going there - and loves it even more when she's offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she's flinging fries and serving frozen ice cream treats - with the assistance of the very sweet boy who works with her. Life is best...
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Series
Babymouse volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl's slumber party.
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An imaginative mouse who likes to read heroic fantasy novels finds herself on the school math team as it prepares to compete for the coveted Golden Slide Rule.
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
An imaginative young mouse is terrified to face her enemy in dodgeball, but with the help of her best friend and support from her mother, she not only plays the game, she proves herself a hero.
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Imaginative Babymouse's science partner, Felicia the cat, expects her to do all of the work for their report on microscopic creatures, but Babymouse gets help from a pizza-loving amoeba named Squish.
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 5
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
"It's Valentine's Day, a day for romance, candy, and the school dance."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In Jennifer L. Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle grade historical fiction novel, life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple
She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping for a lady who doesn't like kids, Turtle...
She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping for a lady who doesn't like kids, Turtle...
17) Pod vs. Pod
Author
Series
Squish volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Squish the amoeba's friend Pod has been feeling strange lately, but Squish finds out Pod is going through mitosis, the process that splits single-celled organisms.
18) Sunny side up
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sunny Lewin is sent to live with her grandfather for the summer in Florida, where she befriends Buzz, a boy completely obsessed with comic books, and faces the secret behind why she is in Florida in the first place.
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 4
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Description
Move over Mozart! Babymouse has music in her soul...but sadly, not in her flute. Will Babymouse ever hit the right note? Will she be the star of the school concert, or is her musical career all washed up before it's even started? Find out in Babymouse: Rock Star, the sensational fourth book in the Babymouse series--taking center stage this fall!
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Series
Babymouse volume 12
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Babymouse's dreams of being a race car driver come true when she and her best friend Wilson enter a soap box derby.