Daniel Pinkwater
Author
Series
Mrs. Noodlekugel volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
With signature wit and whimsy, the inimitable Daniel Pinkwater introduces an eccentric, endearing babysitter every child will wish they could have. Nick and Maxine live in a tall building with one apartment on top of another. So when they look out their window and see a little house they never knew was there, of course they must visit (especially when their parents tell them not to!). Going through the boiler room, they're amazed to find to a secret
...Author
Series
Mrs. Noodlekugel volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nick and Maxine accompany the eccentric lady to the eye doctor to help her four myopic mice who, after overindulging on cheesecake, go running into the streets, triggering a search that is aided by a helpful policemen and a rough-edged alley cat.
3) Borgel
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Melvin recounts his extraordinary adventures in time and space with his 111year-old sort of great-Uncle Borgel.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
When their father decides to compete to be speed-knitting champion of the world, Nick and Maxine are happy to stay with their babysitter, Mrs. Noodlekugel, along with her talking cats and four mice who wear glasses. What they don't expect is a dripping-wet, whiskered man in the kitchen the next morning! Captain Noodlekugel has left his seafaring life to train animals for the circus, and he's even brought with him a hefty bear named Drooly for practice....
5) Aunt Lulu
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tired of working as a librarian in Alaska, Aunt Lulu takes her sled and her fourteen huskies and moves to Parsippany, New Jersey.
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.
8) Lizard music
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Victor's parents go away for two weeks. It is while staying up late watching television that he discovers evidence of a secret community of intelligent lizards. In fact there seems to have been an invasion from outer space that went almost unnoticed.
Author
Series
Larry books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young girl and Larry, the polar bear who lives in her father's hotel, enjoy each other's company and, on an outing to the zoo, they discover Larry's brother Roy.
Author
Series
Neddiad volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian turtle artifact whose owner is supposed to be able to prevent the impending destruction of the world, but he is not sure exactly how.
16) Mrs. Noodlekugel
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nick and Maxine have a new babysitter--the eccentric Mrs. Noodlekugel who lives in the funny little house behind their drab high-rise apartment building along with her feline butler, Mr. Fuzzface, and three myopic mice.
17) Second grade ape
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Flash Fleetwood finds a very quiet gorilla which he names Phil, and, to the delight of the second grade students, their teacher Mrs. Hotdogbun says he may attend school along with them.
18) Ice cream Larry
Author
Series
Larry books volume 3
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After he eats an eighth of a ton of ice cream at Cohen's Cones, Larry the polar bear happily becomes the spokesbear for the Iceberg Ice-Cream Company under the slogan, "I do not feel sick."
19) Bear's picture
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A bear continues to paint what he likes despite criticism from two passing gentlemen.
20) Bear in love
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A bear with a secret admirer who leaves sweet, crunchy treats outside his cave each night tries to repay the kindness with honey, but comes to find out that his new friend is smaller, cuter, and fonder of carrots than any bear.