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Product Description:   "This gifted artist, whose clever wordplay reveals a wonderfully warped sense of comedy, has whipped up another winner."                                           --School Library Journal   Jam-packed with sight gags, sly jokes, ghoulish cartoons, and spoofing, Frankenstein Takes the Cake is a great way to celebrate Halloween and "trick" kids into reading poetry...read more
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9780547850627 | Sandpiper, August 21, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition:   "This gifted artist, whose clever wordplay reveals a wonderfully warped sense of comedy, has whipped up another winner.

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9780152062354 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 2008, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: No one ever said it was easy being a monster.

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Product Description: Meet Chloe: Every week, she collects loose change so she can buy tickets to ride the merry-go-round. But one fateful day, she gets lost in the woods on her way home, and a large dragon leaps out from—"Wait! It's supposed to be a lion," says Mac Barnett, the author of this book...read more
By Adam Rex (illustrator)
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9781423113348 | Hyperion, April 3, 2012, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Meet Chloe: Every week, she collects loose change so she can buy tickets to ride the merry-go-round.

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Hardcover:

9780062060020 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, February 7, 2012, cover price $16.99

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Product Description: Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new job: he takes out the trash for five bucks a week. But it's hard to leave the old game behind. On a train trip down the California coast, Steve and his best chum, Dana, are pulled into a mystery involving a fleet of stolen automobiles, a vanishing girl, and a phantom train car...read more
By Adam Rex (illustrator)
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Hardcover:

9781416978190 | Simon & Schuster, October 4, 2011, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new job: he takes out the trash for five bucks a week.

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Product Description: The adventures of Steve Brixton, America's next great kid detective, continue. When MacArthur Bart, a.k.a. Steve's hero, vanishes, Steve and his reluctant chum Dana must rescue the man from the clutches of a villainous crime syndicate...read more
By Adam Rex (illustrator)
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9781416978183 | Simon & Schuster, October 4, 2011, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The adventures of Steve Brixton, America's next great kid detective, continue.

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Product Description: A hilarous look at the day-to-day life of the average ghoul. Being a monster isn’t just about frightening villagers and sucking blood. Monsters have their trials, too. Poor Frankenstein’s cupboard is bare, Wolfman is in need of some household help, and it’s best not to get started on Dracula’s hygiene issues...read more
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Paperback:

9780547576831 | Reprint edition (Sandpiper, September 6, 2011), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A hilarous look at the day-to-day life of the average ghoul.

School and Library:

9780152057664 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems, exposing the private lives of various monsters, including Wolfman, Frankenstein, Bigfoot, and Godzilla, reveals their well-kept secrets about hygiene, household, and food issues.

Prebinding:

9780606233248 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, September 6, 2011), cover price $18.40 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Product Description: Doug Lee is undead quite by accident—attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever. When he has no luck finding some goth chick with a vampire fetish, he resorts to sucking the blood of cows under cover of the night...read more
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9780061920905 | 1 edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, July 27, 2010), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Doug Lee is undead quite by accident—attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever.

Paperback:

9780061920929 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, July 26, 2011), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Doug Lee is undead quite by accident—attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever.

Prebinding:

9780606230216 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, July 26, 2011), cover price $19.65

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Product Description: It’s here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that...read more
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Hardcover:

9780061963742, titled "Guys Read: Funny Business" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 21, 2010, cover price $16.99 | also contains Funny Business | About this edition: It’s here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library.

Prebinding:

9780606149921, titled "Guys Read: Funny Business" | Turtleback Books, September 21, 2010, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Miscellaneous:

9780062037398 | Harpercollins, December 31, 2075, cover price $1.99

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Product Description: It’s here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that...read more
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Hardcover:

9780061963742, titled "Guys Read: Funny Business" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 21, 2010, cover price $16.99 | also contains Guys Read Funny Business | About this edition: It’s here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library.

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Product Description: Seventh-grader Steve Brixton is an avid reader of the Bailey Brothers series, and he’s about to get a chance to put the detective tactics he’s read so much about into practice. He’s out to solve a mystery being investigated by America’s most secret crime solving agency: the United States Department of Library Sciences...read more
By Adam Rex (illustrator)
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Paperback:

9781416978169 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, May 4, 2010), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Seventh-grader Steve Brixton is an avid reader of the Bailey Brothers series, and he’s about to get a chance to put the detective tactics he’s read so much about into practice.

School and Library:

9781416978152 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, October 6, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Steve Brixton always wanted to be a detective.

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Product Description: Here is a book that will keep you guessing again and again and...
By Adam Rex (illustrator)
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9781416955665 | Simon & Schuster, September 15, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Here is a book that will keep you guessing again and again and.

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Product Description: A blue whale is longer than thirty dogs lined up nose to tail. Its tongue weighs as much as four hundred cats. Blue whales make terrible pets....Just ask Billy Twitters.
By Adam Rex (illustrator)
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9780786849581 | Hyperion, June 22, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A blue whale is longer than thirty dogs lined up nose to tail.

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Product Description: It all starts with a school essay. When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended on the Earth and the aliens – called Boov – abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth a colony, renamed it “Smekland” (in honor of glorious Captain Smek), and forced all Americans to relocate to Florida via rocketpod? In any case, Gratuity’s story is much, much bigger than the assignment...read more
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Paperback:

9780786849017 | Reprint edition (Hyperion, May 5, 2009), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: It all starts with a school essay.

School and Library:

9780786849000 | Hyperion, October 10, 2007, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Gratuity Tucci has a hard time writing an essay on 'The True Meaning of Smekday' due to her complex life after Earth was overtaken by aliens and her mother was kidnapped and taken to Happy Mouse Kingdom in Florida.

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9789707775022 | Oceano De Mexico, March 30, 2009, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: I’m Lucy Rose and here’s the thing about me: I am eight and according to my grandfather I have the kind of life that is called eventful, which means NOT boring. According to my mom and my grandmother I’m what they call a handful...read more
By Adam Rex (illustrator)
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Reinforced:

9780606349468 | Demco Media, March 14, 2006, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: I’m Lucy Rose and here’s the thing about me: I am eight and according to my grandfather I have the kind of life that is called eventful, which means NOT boring.

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9781439561119 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 10, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: I’m Lucy Rose and here’s the thing about me: I am eight and according to my grandfather I have the kind of life that is called eventful, which means NOT boring.
9781417750467 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2006, cover price $16.60 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Product Description: A child, a visit to the zoo, animals--sounds like good, simple all-American fun. But there’s something different about this zoo. These animals want things. Unusual things. What will they do with them?    Laughs, jokes, and surprises abound in this graphic picture book about a feisty, all-too-helpful little girl and her role in aiding and abetting zoo-animal shenanigans...read more
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9780152058173 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The animals at the zoo have some unusual requests for a little girl who comes to visit.

Prebinding:

9781435256460 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $20.40 | About this edition: A child, a visit to the zoo, animals--sounds like good, simple all-American fun.

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Now in fourth grade, palindrome-enthusiast Lucy Rose learns about the perils of eavesdropping while also confiding in her diary her worries that her recently divorced mother is beginning to date. Reprint.
By Katy Kelly and Adam Rex (illustrator)
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Hardcover:

9780385733199 | Delacorte Pr, September 12, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Now in fourth grade, palindrome-enthusiast Lucy Rose learns about the perils of eavesdropping while also confiding in her diary her worries that her recently divorced mother is beginning to date.

Paperback:

9780440421085 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, September 11, 2007), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Now in fourth grade, palindrome-enthusiast Lucy Rose learns about the perils of eavesdropping while also confiding in her diary her worries that her recently divorced mother is beginning to date.

Library:

9780385903387 | Delacorte Pr, September 12, 2006, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Now in fourth grade, palindrome-enthusiast Lucy Rose learns about the perils of eavesdropping while also confiding in her diary her worries that her recently divorced mother is beginning to date.

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With so many things to do, such as getting rid of 78 squirrels, making a lanyard kitchen, and tending to a pest that is ruining the fun for all at Parks & Rec, young Lucy Rose has got quite a full schedule on her plate, in an amusing tale about one very ambitious young girl. Reprint.
By Adam Rex (illustrator)
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9781435204614 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 28, 2007), cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Lucy Rose records in her diary her special summer plans--to make a keychain for her mother, to help decorate the living room, to prevent her parents' divorce, to vanquish some squirrels, and to enjoy a ninth birthday adventure with her father.

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Darcy Heart O'Hara, a young Irish girl who neglects her chores to observe the beauties of nature and everyday life, shares 'family memories' with her homesick parents and siblings after the O'Haras are forced to emigrate to America in the 1840s.
By Adam Rex (illustrator) and Elvira Woodruff
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Hardcover:

9780375826863 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 12, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Darcy Heart O'Hara, a young Irish girl who neglects her chores to observe the beauties of nature and everyday life, shares 'family memories' with her homesick parents and siblings after the O'Haras are forced to emigrate to America in the 1840s.

Library:

9780375926860 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 12, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Darcy Heart O'Hara, a young Irish girl who neglects her chores to observe the beauties of nature and everyday life, shares 'family memories' with her homesick parents and siblings after the O'Haras are forced to emigrate to America in the 1840s.

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When a special tree grows only a few miles out of town, Rex watches as animals flock to its branches, but when elephants, monkeys, poodles, and a colorful clown suddenly climb up to join the sparrows and chipmunks, Rex knows there is only one thing to do with this special ensemble. 40,000 first printing.
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9780152053635 | Harcourt Childrens Books, June 4, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In this cumulative tale, a tree becomes a hiding place for various animals, a runaway circus clown, and even an elephant.

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A village comes to life when a Mississippi River steamboat arrives and unloads its goods, but once the work is done, the village is once again at its previous sleepy pace.
By Jill Esbaum and Adam Rex (illustrator)
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9780374372361 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 8, 2005, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A village comes to life when a Mississippi River steamboat arrives and unloads its goods.

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Telling his faithful dog to make sure nobody touches his clothes but him, a cowboy jumps into a New Mexico river for a bath, not realizing just how much the scrubbing will change his scent.
By Adam Rex (illustrator) and Amy Timberlake
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School and Library:

9780374317911 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 2003, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Telling his faithful dog to make sure nobody touches his clothes but him, a cowboy jumps into a New Mexico river for a bath, not realizing just how much the scrubbing will change his scent.

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By Adam Rex (illustrator)
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9781417771059 | Turtleback Books, June 1, 1982, cover price $16.00

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