Adam Rex
3) Unstoppable
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Language
English
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Description
When a bird and a crab team up to combine the advantages of flight and claws, it gives them an idea: why not expand the team to include other animals who have a special trait -- and soon they all set out to rescue their lake from development, because united together they are unstoppable.
5) Why?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.
7) Cold cereal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy who may be part changeling, twins involved in a bizarre secret experiment, and a clurichaun in a red tracksuit try to save the world from an evil cereal company whose ultimate goal is world domination.
11) Pssst!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The animals at the zoo have some unusual requests for a little girl who goes to visit.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will the children do once they come? Will they like the school? Will they be nice to him? The school has a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon recovers when he sees that he's not the only one going through first-day jitters.
14) Moonday
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
When the Moon disrupts a town by lowering itself into someone's backyard, a child finds a way to return the Moon to its proper place in the sky.
Author
Series
Gumluck the wizard volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Gumluck, a young, naíve wizard, does his best to help the local townspeople (and a small friendly ghost) with his sometimes critical raven sidekick, Helvetica.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this creative nonfiction work, just after learning that Earth's scientists no longer consider him a planet, an unhappy Pluto takes a visitor from Earth on a tour of the solar system, sharing facts along the way.
19) Unlucky charms
Author
Series
Cold cereal saga volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Three kids must save the world from the diabolical schemes of an evil breakfast cereal company, which has been luring magical creatures to our world through a rift in the time-space continuum.