Adam Rex
4) Cold cereal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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
Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are being relocated, with her cat and a renegade extraterrestiral named J. Lo as her copilots
7) Unstoppable!
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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.
9) Why?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Gumluck the wizard volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
133 pages : (chiefly Black & white) illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
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
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite being told that she is nothing but "empty calories," Candy is excited by her big break--being digested by the body, in this humorous exploration of the digestive system, presented as a Broadway musical.
15) Pssst!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The animals at the zoo have some unusual requests for a little girl who goes to visit
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zelda is stuck in a dream. A very strange dream, where people can fly, bears sneeze money, and her childhood cat, Patches, is somehow alive - despite being run over years ago. Things only get stranger when Zelda meets Langston, a sweet if overly timid guy who feels more real to her than anyone she's ever met. As Zelda and Langston explore the far reaches of the dreamscape together, they find themselves growing closer and closer. But what they uncover...
17) Tree-ring circus
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 v. : col. ill. ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
In this cumulative tale, a tree becomes a hiding place for various animals, a runaway circus clown, and even an elephant
18) Moonday
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : ill. ; 25 cm
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
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gratuity Tucci and her alien friend, J.Lo, journey to New Boovworld, one of Saturn's moons, to clear J.Lo's name after a string of misunderstandings"--
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 26 cm
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.
Pluto loves being a planet. That is, until the day he gets a call from some Earth scientists telling him he isn a planet anymore! You probably wanted to meet a real planet, huh? So, Pluto takes the reader on a hilarious and informative...