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Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Ouchie and Squishy, who love bowling and horror movies respectively, meet the eccentric owner of a local bowling alley and try to help him save Bowl-A-Rama from the wrecking ball and a destructive psychotic lunatic.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rose, nearly sixteen, is used to traveling around with her alcoholic father but connects with the people of a small, coastal Australian town, especially classmate Pearl and reclusive Edie, who teaches her to sew a magical dress for the Harvest Festival while a mystery unfolds around them.
65) The doldrums
Author
Series
Doldrums volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A novel on a small town in Georgia. The protagonists are a peanut virologist who is fending off insects which threaten the town's livelihood and a woman painter of chickens with whom he has a romance. A third character campaigns to save vanishing typefaces.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Danny is not sure what to make of Calvin Waffle, a quirky and smart new fourth grader, but when Danny convinces Calvin to use his brain power to help the baseball team, they both have a chance to become heroes.
73) Oggie Cooder
Author
Series
[Oggie Cooder series] volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity--and having a neighbor girl as his manager.
Author
Series
[Bellweather tale] volume 1
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, put-upon butler Tristan Benway writes a memoir of his years spent working for the chaotic and eccentric Bellweather family in their lighthouse, as he prepares for his long-awaited departure from indentured servitude.
75) Plantation
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Carolina Wimbley Levine had always sworn she'd never go home again, but when she must return to "see about Mother," she learns that Miss Lavinia, the Queen of Tall Pines Plantation, is filled with secrets and as maddeningly eccentric as ever.
Author
Series
[Oggie Cooder series] volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Neither a long list of rules, nor the inability to find the perfect gift--Cheddar Jam--nor being locked in a bathroom with a juggling bear will keep quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder from attending neighbor Donnica Perfecto's birthday pool party.
Author
Series
Daily dynamite volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Reporters for an experimental middle school's student newspaper face an ethical dilemma when they uncover a shocking secret about their eccentric principal that could tarnish the reputation of their beloved Kaboom Academy if revealed.
78) Bright futures
Author
Series
Lew Fonesca mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When a recent high-school graduate is arrested for murdering an unpopular political campaigner, Lew Fonesca finds the case challenged by a blackmail investigation in which a popular children's music performer has been accused of being a child predator.
Author
Series
(Gail Robin).Lumby volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When shy animal doctor Tom Candor arrives in the village of Lumby, he seems the answer to everyone's prayers. But what happens when the village's warm welcome turns cool?
80) Remarkable
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish...
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