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The Accelerati Trilogy Book One Tesla's Attic

The Accelerati Trilogy Book One Tesla's Attic

By Neal Shusterman, Eric Elfman
4.08
25 ratings23 reviews
  • goofy127
    goofy12744 stars
    After a house fire killed his mother and destroyed all of their possessions, Nick, his younger brother Danny and their dad move from Tampa, Florida, to Colorado Springs, Colorado into their great aunt’s house. After choosing the attic as his bedroom and finding a bunch of odd gadgets and machines...
Hook's Revenge, Book 1 Hook's Revenge

Hook's Revenge, Book 1 Hook's Revenge

By Heidi Schulz
4.14
14 ratings17 reviews
  • happypug12
    happypug1244 stars
    Captain Hook is dead, killed by the malicious crocodile. His daughter, Jocelyn, is faced with the heavy burden of avenging her father. But first she must endure the hardships of Miss Eliza Crumb-Biddlecomb's Finishing School For Young Ladies, pirate battles, annoying flying boys, pirate-eating ca...
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co)

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co)

By Jonathan Stroud
4.37
41 ratings47 reviews
  • goofy127
    goofy12755 stars
    Around fifty years ago, the Problem occurred in London. Ghosts and other paranormals have appeared in England with the horrifying ability to torture and kill you. And yet the only people able to sense them and act are children and teens. Say goodbye to being a child and hello to growing up fast. ...
Quinny & Hopper

Quinny & Hopper

By Adriana Brad Schanen
3.5
10 ratings13 reviews
  • jeffdaboss
    jeffdaboss55 stars
    Quinny is an active, loud girl. Hopper is a shy, timid boy. Quinny has two, younger annoying sisters. Hopper has two, older annoying brothers. They become friends who do fun things together. But third grade is coming, and tearing them apart. They are done with each other. But somehow they land on...
Alistair Grim's Odditorium

Alistair Grim's Odditorium

By Gregory Funaro
3.75
4 ratings8 reviews
  • snicker9
    snicker955 stars
    In Alistair Grim's Odditorium Grubb is a 12-year old boy who works as a chimney sweep, but only receives pitiful amounts of food and beatings from his cruel master. All that changes the day he stows away in a trunk of a wealthy guest at the hotel he is cleaning. He dreams he is flying, and when h...
Disney Lands (Kingdom Keepers: The Return)

Disney Lands (Kingdom Keepers: The Return)

By Ridley Pearson
4.0
10 ratings11 reviews
  • snicker9
    snicker955 stars
    This book was amazing. It was a very fast read as well. I read it in one afternoon, I was so entranced. This series is a spin-off from Kingdom Keepers. The Return series is basically about the life after Kingdom Keepers "ends". This book is confusing if you have not read the Kingdom Keepers. The...
The Worst Class Trip Ever

The Worst Class Trip Ever

By Dave Barry
4.35
16 ratings19 reviews
  • kathol
    The Worst Class Field Trip Ever Dave Berry Have you ever been on a class field trip? Well in this book Wyatt and Matt (protagonists) leave with their class to Washington DC from Miami Florida. All Wyatt wants to do is not let Matt embarrass him in front of his crush Suzan (another protagonist)...
Above World

Above World

By Jenn Reese
4.42
12 ratings11 reviews
  • goofy127
    goofy12744 stars
    Aluna has lived her entire life under the sea. She is a Coral Kampii - a splinter of humans that came to live in the sea generations ago to escape the horrors and dangers of the above world. She is only a day away from getting her tail and being confined to the water forever when she sees her fri...
Garden Princess

Garden Princess

By Kristin Kladstrup
4.3
27 ratings60 reviews
  • zorba
    zorba33 stars
    This book is pretty good, I enjoyed it more than I thought! It's about Princess Adela who it not beautiful or graceful, and she likes to spend her days digging new plots for her garden. But then her friend Garth is invited to a party hosted by Lady Hortensia, whose beauty is said to be rivaled on...
Wild Boy

Wild Boy

By Rob Lloyd Jones
3.86
7 ratings7 reviews
  • asma234
    asma23455 stars
    The book Wild Boy takes place in the nineteenth century and is pretty cool. The main character which is Wild Boy gets his name from being covered head to toe in thick hair. His life is pretty sad because he's put in a freak show because of his hairiness. He has powers that enable him to observe a...
The Luck of the Buttons

The Luck of the Buttons

By Anne Ylvisaker
2.83
12 ratings15 reviews
  • snicker9
    snicker944 stars
    The Luck of the Buttons is about a young girl namesTugs Button. Her family is famous for the fact that they are simply not lucky. But then things keep going Tugs' way, and she is determined to be different from her family members. Then a stranger shows up, charming everyone with his desire to ope...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again

By Frank Cottrell Boyce
3.76
25 ratings27 reviews
  • goofy127
    goofy12744 stars
    Mr. Tooting, or Dad has some Very Big News. He has been sacked. Hooray! But now he needs something to occupy his free time and so he sets about improving their home - from a door that opens automatically and is hooked up to the tea kettle to brightening up Lucy’s black room and robot stuffed anim...
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas

By David Almond
3.25
12 ratings12 reviews
  • snicker9
    snicker944 stars
    The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas is an interesting story about a young orphan, Stan Potts. When Stan's parents died he went to live with his Uncle Ernie and Aunt Annie. But then Ernie lost his job, and became an entrepreneur, starting his own business in his home-canning fish. He cans fish and Sta...
Freakling (Psi Chronicles)

Freakling (Psi Chronicles)

By Lana Krumwiede
3.58
12 ratings12 reviews
  • laurajane
    laurajane55 stars
    Taemon lives in a world run by psi. Psi, as he once thought, was simply a telekinetic power. But Taemon can mind wander, a different form of psi. and learn things like how to get oxygen out of the water. when he refuses to kill his later evil brother, he loses his psi and goes to the powerless c...
Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of Room 11

Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of Room 11

By N. Griffin
3.22
9 ratings11 reviews
  • selina
    selina55 stars
    The book is very mysterious. First Room 11's class pet hamster Patches is missing, when Ms. Dismont's brooch is missing and when a ruler was glued to Mr. Flange and when a hat was glued to Alonso, it's all up to Smashie McPerter and Dontel Marquise to find the culprits. Billy was the person to ki...
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

By Liz Pichon
4.54
35 ratings55 reviews
  • bibliophile
    bibliophile33 stars
    This book had me laughing throughout the whole story. Honestly this book was hilarious, it had cool and cute doodles and captions with different types of fonts... it also reminded me of the Diary of the Wimpy Kid series, but this book was more hectic and funnier in my opinion. Tom Gate(reminds me...
Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort)

Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort)

By Lauren Child
4.52
31 ratings33 reviews
  • bibliophile
    bibliophile44 stars
    When I was younger... I used to pretend I was Nancy Drew always looking for mysteries that I can solve... the only mystery I came across was "who ate the last slice of the delicious cheesecake?" or "where's my toy?" and those type of mysteries... of course I did solve them except for finding my m...
Princess Academy

Princess Academy

By Shannon Hale
4.46
103 ratings122 reviews
  • felicisowl
    felicisowl55 stars
    I love this book - honestly, I would have to say this is one of my top ten favorite books, just because it captures emotions so perfectly, and the author's voice is fresh and captures the reader's imagination right away. The poems that start almost every chapter and very creative and sometimes, d...
The Wide-Awake Princess

The Wide-Awake Princess

By E. D. Baker
4.33
51 ratings62 reviews
  • mermaid_lover
    loving this book so far. it is just like slepping beauty except the author changed it a little to make it more entertaining. my favorite part so far is when gwendolen [sleeping beauty] opens her presents from her 16th birthday and one present is this tree and you crank a key and i think it turns ...
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader For Kids Only!

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader For Kids Only!

By Bathroom Readers' Institute
4.15
27 ratings34 reviews
  • bibliophile
    bibliophile33 stars
    KIDS ONLY!!!!!!! I'm just kidding about that... well actually you can go talk to the author about it if you are not a kid and you are going to read it... Again I was joking! I think this book changed how I think now I;m joking a lot these day because of this book! This was filled with amazing and...
Uncle John's Totally Quacked Bathroom Reader For Kids Only! (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader for Kids Only)

Uncle John's Totally Quacked Bathroom Reader For Kids Only! (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader for Kids Only)

By Bathroom Readers' Institute
4.62
21 ratings22 reviews
  • bibliophile
    bibliophile33 stars
    This book was totally quacky and wacky... see what I did... lol... ok now I'll get straight to the point. This books was pretty awesome... it had fun information you could easy remember... and you know what...It also had PICTURES!!! I used to remember when I was a like two years old devouring pic...
The Terrible Two

The Terrible Two

By Mac Barnett, Jory John
4.23
93 ratings110 reviews
  • mrshardinger
    6 Reasons Why You Should Read THE TERRIBLE TWO 1) Ever pulled a great prank? The characters in this book may just have you beat. For example, in the first few pages someone pulls the ULTIMATE prank on the school principal. This book will make you want to become a member of the super secret ...
Poop Fountain!: The Qwikpick Papers

Poop Fountain!: The Qwikpick Papers

By Tom Angleberger
3.92
12 ratings11 reviews
  • glittermis
    glittermis33 stars
    This is a hilarious book about 3 kids who have boring lives.Lyle Hertzog and his friends Marilla and Dave expect to spend another dull holiday. That changes when they hear that the sludge fountain near the sewage plant is retiring. They decide that they are the qwikpick adventure society. Their f...
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (Frank Einstein series #1): Book One

Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (Frank Einstein series #1): Book One

By Jon Scieszka
3.84
31 ratings33 reviews
  • xxpish
    xxpish55 stars
    Frank Einstein is a science genius. He works on inventions and helps his grandpa with his shop while his crazy parents are traveling around the world for their travel blog. But Gramps is about to lose the shop because of the lack of finances, and Frank is convinced that he can win the Science Fai...
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