Jennifer Harney
1) Underwear!
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a bear who would rather play with his underwear than put it on and get ready for bed.
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A crew of hungry kittens and their captain head to the lake to catch some dinner, but the fish have surprises in store for them. Even before the cats encounter the fish, they run into trouble. What happens when confused kitties paddle every which way? Or when they all lean in the same direction? A pattern is needed to avoid a catastrophe! Patterns are the foundation on which math is built. Using rhythm, wordplay, and countable characters, CATastrophe!...
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Deer wakes up to find one of his antlers is missing...and there's a tennis racket in its place? One by one his friends also uncover that their important items from glasses to lucky boots have been swapped with silly, useless replacements like donuts and swim flippers. They've been hornswoggled! (Hornswoggled means tricked.) It's pure poppycock! (Poppycock means nonsense.) Once they gather together to find out what happened, will they find the true...
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Knight needed. Apply at Castle. In just one week, the king will choose a new knight--and since Sir Simpleton is the world's greatest expert on so many things, he intends to make sure young Sam masters all the skills he needs to know. Unfortunately, Sir Simpleton may not be the best trainer: Instead of donning shiny armor and rescuing a beautiful princess, he wears a chicken suit and saves a fiery dragon! Will Sam succeed in spite of his teacher's...
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"James Kelly smelled EVERYTHING: rats in the shed; circus elephants a mile away; tomorrow's rain. His sense of smell was EXTRAORDINARY. But what good was a powerful nose? How could his super-sniffer make him special? In the New York City subway, James found his calling--and earned the nickname 'Smelly' Kelly. Armed with his super-sniffer and the tools he invented, he tracked down leaks from the dangerous to the disgusting, from the comical to the...
10) The were-woof
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Bella Gosi thinks that looking after Five, a tiny, scruffy foster puppy for the weekend, thinking it will be easy. However, when the sun goes down, the sleepy puppy wakes her wild side and chews on everything. Bella has to take responsibility for Five, but she has no idea what to do.
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Having just moved to Shiver-by-the-Sea and missing her old friends, Bella Gosi throws herself into helping her mom repair the old movie theater and make it profitable. While cleaning the theater, Bella makes friends with Cooper and his basset hound, then discovers a bat in an old trunk deep in the theater's storage. That bat turns out to be a vampire kid, hungry and scared, who just wants to go home, too.
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When a new monster appears in Shiver-by-the-Sea, Bella, Cooper, Bram, and Casper follow its gloppy green, webbed footprints from the community pool into the town. Residents begin reporting their pond fish are being eaten, and they are not happy at all. The four friends must find the creature a new home before animal control captures it and sends it away.
13) Pirate & penguin
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"What happens when a pirate, hoping for a parrot, stumbles upon a bird of a duller plumage? Pirate doesn't know that Penguin is a penguin. But any bird can sit on a shoulder and squawk 'shiver me timbers'...right? Laugh along with Pirate and Penguin in this high seas tale of mistaken identity and find out whether they'll find friendship before somebody walks the plank." -- Provided by publisher.
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"Ahoy! Step right up seadogs and scallywags! Don't miss yer chance to sail with the funnest flagship on the Seven Seas, newly renovated and more shipshape than ever! Slide down the mast, give me helm, swing a hearty HEAVE-HO, or bellow a sea chanty among a bounty o'bubbles! Surely some briney buccaneer be yearnin' to hit the high seas in our sharp ship...There be but one rule: under NO circumstances can ye ever insult me fine, feathered Ground Parrot!"...
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The Revolutionary War was over, but Washington's officers had not received their wages from the Continental Congress in years. Afraid they would never get their money, the officers planned to storm Congress and demand it right away. Luckily, George Washington found out about the plot just in time. He delivered a passionate speech to his men, but they were unaffected. It was only when he struggled to read aloud a letter from Congress and had to put...