Peter Nelson
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Herbert's wormhole volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the sequel to Peter Nelson and Rohitash Rao's Herbert's Wormhole, the breakout novel-in-cartoons that J. K. Rowling called "absolutely wonderful-fast-paced, inventive, engaging, and hilarious. "Herbert, Alex, and Sammi are heroes in the year 2109, having successfully saved the planet from an alien invasion (or so everyone thinks). Everything is going just swimmingly until, inevitably, real aliens...
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The host of Animal Planet's Treehouse Masters and the world's best-known treehouse designer and builder, Pete Nelson wants to put you in a tree. His motto: "Get 'er done, so you can BE in a TREE." With this book he provides a comprehensive source of inspiration and practical information about treehouse design and construction, and shares the basics of treehouse construction with his own recent projects as case studies.
Using photographs taken especially...
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When a teenage amateur sleuth accompanies her best friend on a road trip to find her missing boyfriend, they drive straight into a small-town conspiracy.
With her BFF in a panic over her boyfriend's disappearance, Mollie Fox decides she and Roberta need to take matters into their own hands if they hope to find Jaime alive. But soon after driving to the small town where Jaime was last seen, the two girls realize they may as well have taken a...
4) Double Dose
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When her childhood friend is accused of being a drug courier, the seventeen-year-old amateur sleuth travels to the scene to prove her friend's innocence.
Mollie Fox has known Meredith Hughes since third grade. So when Meredith is busted for drug possession upon returning to San Francisco from a New York City fashion shoot, Mollie is certain her friend is being framed. Everyone else at Bayside High is convinced that Meredith is guilty simply...
5) First to Die
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Seven teens trapped underground after an earthquake discover that the only person who knows their location is a criminal who would rather them dead.
For sixteen-year-old Mollie Fox, selling earthquake insurance is just a way to keep her beloved Jeep on the road. But when the Big One actually does strike California, Mollie finds herself living her worst nightmare. Trapped in a basement office beneath a collapsed shopping mall, Mollie makes two...
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Creature Keepers volume 4
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English
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An epically hilarious, fully illustrated adventure series. Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon band together with their cryptid friends in an attempt to save the world in the final book in this fun series.
As summer draws to an end, Jordan and Abbie Grimsley are moving with their parents from the city into their long-lost grandfather's house in the Florida everglades. But before they settle into their new life, they're taking a completely ordinary, creature-free...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
Readers of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate will love Herbert's Wormhole 3: Aerostar and the 3 1/2-Point Plan of Vengeance, the thrilling and irreverent conclusion to the series that began with Herbert's Wormhole, which J. K. Rowling called "absolutely wonderful-fast-paced, inventive, engaging, and hilarious." Herbert, Alex, and Sammi were pretty sure their adventures in the future were over-until they discover that their old nemesis, GOR-DON, has...
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Creature Keepers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon travel to the snowy Himalayas to find the Yeti and save the world in the third book in the epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, Creature Keepers, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole.
Although the Creature Keepers were able to defeat Chupacabra, their nemesis still managed to get his claws on one of Bigfoot's Soil Soles. Now he needs only one more item of mythological power to...
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Creature Keepers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
For kids who love the Origami Yoda and Zombie Chasers series comes the first book in an epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, starring some of history's best-known mythical beasts, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole. Twelve-year-old Jordan Grimsley has moved with his family into an old, abandoned house in Florida that belonged to his long-lost grandfather. While clearing stuff out of the attic, Jordan finds...
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Creature Keepers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon are off on their next Creature Keepers mission in the second book in this epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole. Gearing up for a triumphant return to South Florida, and their new position as honorary Creature Keepers, Abbie and Jordan are surprised when it turns out they are actually heading north of the border to Canada for their summer vacation....
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This book compares and contrasts the motivations, morality, and effectiveness of space exploration when pursued by private entrepreneurs as opposed to government. The authors advocate market-driven, private initiatives take the lead through enhanced competition and significant resources that can be allocated to the exploration and exploitation of outer space. Space travel and colonisation is analysed through the prism of economic freedom and laissez...
12) The pollinators
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Collective Eye Films
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English
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THE POLLINATORS is a cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat. The many challenges the beekeepers and their bees face en route reveal flaws to our simplified chemically dependent agriculture system. We talk to farmers, scientists, chefs and academics along the way to give a broad perspective about...
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"When asked why she chose to write about food rather than "the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way others do," M.F.K. replied:"The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry. But there is more than that. It seems to me that our three basic needs, for good and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the other. So it happens that when I write...
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You're under arrest, sugah! Former Laugh-In star Teresa Graves stars as a charming police detective in this exciting television drama from Emmy-nominated director William A. Graham (Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones). Get Christie Love!, which also stars Harry Guardino and Ron Rifkin, was done in the flavor of the Blaxploitation movies that were popular at the time and kicked off a weekly ABC series of the same name. In what was the character's...