Geoff Rodkey
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Imagine being forced to move to a new planet where YOU are the alien! The first time I heard about Planet Choom, we'd been on Mars for almost a year. But life on the Mars station was grim, and since Earth was no longer an option (we may have blown it up), it was time to find a new home. That's how we ended up on Choom with the Zhuri. They're very smart. They also look like giant mosquitos. But that's not why it's so hard to live here. There's a lot...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Egg volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
A stunning middle-grade debut—full of heart, humor, and nonstop action
It's tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody's trying to kill you.
Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his guts.
But when Egg's father hustles their family off on a mysterious errand to fabulously wealthy Sunrise...
It's tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody's trying to kill you.
Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his guts.
But when Egg's father hustles their family off on a mysterious errand to fabulously wealthy Sunrise...
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 1
Language
English
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 2
Language
English
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, on the First (and last) Annual Culvert Prep Middle School Scavenger Hunt For Charity, and the adventures of twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper as their highly competitive teams scour New York for treasure.
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Series
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Français
Description
Lorsque Claudia initie une chasse au trésor dans toute la ville pour amasser des fonds pour la charité, il n'y a pas que les équipes adverses. Les jumeaux qui courent à l'émeute. Pris avec l'ensemble de la cours d'école de commerce en ligne, ils n'arriveront pas à la première place des ventes de billets et à la ligne d'arrivée, au Madison Square Garden, sans entacher leur dignité.
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Français
Description
Roman graphique qui raconte la guerre que se livrent un frère et sa soeur jumelle avec pour cadre la famille et l'école.
L'histoire est faite de petites scènes humoristiques avec l'intervention des différents personnages de l'histoire. La vengeance est le moteur du récit avec beaucoup de péripéties rigolotes.
L'auteur insère l'utilisation d'écritures variées comme des extraits de conversations et des témoignages ou encore des textos.
Les...
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 3
Language
English
Description
In their third uproarious oral history, the Tapper Twins take their sibling feud to the political stage as they race to become class president!
Told as a series of interviews, screenshots, text messages, and social media bursts, The Tapper Twins Run For President tops the antics of the real 2016 elections! Claudia Tapper wants to become President of the United States someday. She's the sixth grade class president, and has every reason to presume...
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Language
English
Description
A mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family who have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life.
It's Tuesday morning in Lincolnwood, New Jersey, and all four members of the Altman family are busy ignoring each other en route to work and school. Dan, a lawyer turned screenwriter, is preoccupied with...
9) New Lands
Author
Series
Chronicles of Egg volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
“Lemony Snicket meets Pirates of the Caribbean, with a sprinkling of Tom Sawyer for good measure.”—Rick Riordan, bestselling author
After a narrow escape from Deadweather Island, Egg and his slightly deranged partner Guts head for the remote New Lands. They’re in search of the lost Okalu tribe, who hold the key to the mysterious treasure map that Egg can't decipher. But the ruthless Roger Pembroke is hard on
...Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 1
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
This bestselling first book in the Tapper Twins series is a hilariously authentic showcase of what it's like to be in middle school in our digitally-saturated world, told as a colorful "oral history" with photos, screenshots, text messages, chat logs, and online gaming digital art.
Twelve-year-old twins, Claudia and Reese, who couldn't be more different...except in their determination to come out on top in a vicious prank war. But when...
Twelve-year-old twins, Claudia and Reese, who couldn't be more different...except in their determination to come out on top in a vicious prank war. But when...
12) The shaggy dog
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A man tries to live a normal life despite the fact that he sometimes turns into a sheepdog.
13) Daddy Day Care
Author
Language
English
Description
Two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) join the ranks of the unemployed and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads decide to open their own day care facility, "Daddy Day Care," which boasts some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of tending the kids. As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a hilarious...