Kelly Murphy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nathaniel Fludd's life has taken a turn for the worst. With his parents lost at sea, he lands on the doorstep of a distant cousin--the world's last remaining beastologist. Soon Nate is whisked off on his first expedition, to Arabia, where the world's only phoenix prepares to lay its new egg. When disaster strikes, Nate quickly finds himself all alone. Will he be able to see the phoenix safely hatched, keep his accidental pet gremlin out of trouble,...
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nathaniel and Aunt Phil are summoned to the Welsh countryside to calm the giant dragons known as wyverns, they suspect the problem was caused by the same sinister man who has been trying to steal the Book of Beasts.
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The continuing adventures of beastologist-in-training, Nathaniel Fludd, as he accompanies his intrepid Aunt Phil on a dangerous mission across West Africa to find a deadly basilisk that is missing and begins to find clues relating to the mysterious disappearance of his parents.
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 4
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beastologist-in-training Nathaniel Fludd and his Aunt Phil nurse a mysteriously ill unicorn, try to stop Obediah from taking the unicorn's horn, and finally get a solid lead on the whereabouts of Nathaniel's parents.
11) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny hopes to use her geographical knowledge to overcome her...
16) Faraway things
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Secundo enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.
17) Together we grow
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a bad storm drives all of the farm animals into the barn, can they set aside their fears and welcome wild animals, too?
18) Haunted houses
Author
Series
Are you scared yet? volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Presents ten horror tales about various types of haunted houses, including a mansion with a pirate looking for his head, a dollhouse inhabited by a ghost, and a vacation house with people-eating spiders.
19) Face bug: poems
Author
Publisher
WordSong
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Collects poems about insects visiting a museum featuring close-up photographs of other bugs' faces.