Brett Helquist
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Strangeville School volume 1
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English
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"Harvey Hill's first day at Strangeville Middle School doesn't go quite as expected when he discovers it's full of various creatures and odd happenings, including a particularly nefarious supply closet"--
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
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English
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Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.
24) Bedtime for Bear
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Just after the first snowfall, Bear is ready to go to sleep until spring but his friends encourage him to spend one last day playing with them.
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Vengekeep prophecies volume 1
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English
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"A magical tapestry prophesies doom for the town of Vengekeep, and to everyone's surprise twelve-year-old Jaxter Grimjinx and his family of con artists appear to be the town's saviors"--
27) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
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"A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world-and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all"--
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 3
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English
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Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.
29) The lump of coal
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English
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A lump of coal that wants to be an artist, but would settle for making decorative marks on a piece of grilled meat, rolls out of a forgotten bag of charcoal one winter and takes a spin through town seeking a miracle.
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Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 3
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English
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Continuing his search for fame as a writer, Howie the wire- haired dachshund creates a story remarkably similar to the popular one he has heard about a heroic boy wizard.
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Doll people volume 4
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English
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"Annabelle Doll, Tiffany Funcraft, and their families journey far from home"--
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"An unlikely--and entirely unforgettable--tale of a most unusual friendship between Flora, an elephant calf stolen from her African home, and David, the circus impresario and magician, who adopts, trains, and ultimately liberates her in a tale freely inspired by actual events"--
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Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 4
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English
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Howie the wirehaired dachshund and his friend Delilah collaborate on a novel, trying to win the coveted Newbony Award.
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Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 5
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English
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Howie, the wirehaired dachshund, tries his paw at writing a new kind of novel, a mystery in which he imagines himself as a private investigator and Delilah as the "mysterious dame."
40) Cézanne's parrot
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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.