Brett Helquist
1) Grumpy Goat
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
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
A series of unfortunate events volume 5
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School : they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett's Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Appears on list
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. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. Imagine tales so terrible...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 6
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esme̹ Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 8
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 4
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
"I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 10
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
12) Chasing Vermeer
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
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.
13) The end
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 13
Lexile measure
NC 1370L
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.
14) The Wright 3
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 2
Lexile measure
870L
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
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Lexile measure
1120L
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.
Author
Series
The Uncommoners volume 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ivy Sparrow and her big brother Seb discover a city beneath London where ordinary objects have magical powers.
17) The Calder game
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 3
Lexile measure
830L
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
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 2
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
19) The vile village
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 7
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Formats
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
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.