Brett Helquist
1) Grumpy Goat
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Goat is the grumpiest animal at Sunny Acres farm until he remembers that there is more to life than eating and being alone.
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 1
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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McKinney March Madness
MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
Staff Recommends- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
Staff Recommends- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 4
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Beaudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.
7) The end
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 13
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
If You Like Percy Jackson, Read These!
JF Once Upon A Summer Reading
Winter Reads - JF
If You Like Percy Jackson, Read These!
JF Once Upon A Summer Reading
Winter Reads - JF
Description
An unlucky twelve-year-old Norwegian boy named Odd leads the Norse gods Loki, Thor, and Odin in an attempt to outwit evil Frost Giants who have taken over Asgard.
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 12
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The Baudelaire orphans disguise themselves as employees of the Hotel Denoument and find themselves pursued by the evil Count Olaf and others.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
13) The Wright 3
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.
Author
Series
League of Seven volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When an alternate 1875 steam-driven America rediscovers electricity, the lifeblood of the Mangleborn monsters, and the secret society to protect humanity from the Mangleborn is compromised, twelve-year-old Archie must assemble a team of seven young heroes to save the world.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 5
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
16) The vile village
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 7
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
Author
Series
League of Seven volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Archie Dent and his friends Hachi and Fergus, the first three members of a new League of Seven, a group of heroes who come together to fight the Mangleborn whenever the monsters arise to destroy humanity, undertake separate missions and in the course of their adventures meet potential candidates to join their League, while learning deep-rooted secrets that could destroy the League forever.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 6
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
20) Cézanne's parrot
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Paul Cézanne longs to be a great painter, but even with the advice of his friends Monet and Pissarro, no one, not even his parrot, is impressed with his work.