Kelly Murphy
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Series
Language
English
Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
The continuing adventures of beastologist-in-training, Nathaniel Fludd, as he accompanies his intrepid Aunt Phil on a dangerous mission across West Africa to find a deadly basilisk that is missing and begins to find clues relating to the mysterious disappearance of his parents.
6) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the folk song "Over the Meadow," the occupants of a medieval castle spend their day spinning, cleaning, cooking, and dancing, until they receive a special surprise from their dragon neighbors.
10) Fiona's luck
Author
Language
English
Description
A clever woman named Fiona must pass the leprechaun king's tests when she tries to get back all the luck he has locked away from humans.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When eleven-year-old Ginny Pierce's father gets deployed to Afghanistan just as her family is moving to a new post in Maryland, she tries to salvage a long and lonely summer by running her own geography camp"--
There are two things Ginny Pierce loves most in the world: geography facts and her father. But when her dad is deployed overseas and Ginnys family must move to yet another town, not even her facts can keep her afloat. The geography camp shes...
12) Faraway things
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Secundo enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
104 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marvin the beetle is going collecting with his family. All is good and well until Uncle Albert gets hurt. Marvin needs his human friend James's help to save Uncle Albert before it's too late"--
16) Haunted houses
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend, a human boy named James, goes away on vacation, Marvin the beetle worries that their friendship may end.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the Chicken Little story, Loony Little, worried that the polar ice cap is melting, sets out to tell the Polar Bear Queen, gathering animal friends as she goes--but, as Sealy Sally warns them, the Polar Bear Queen is more interested in making a lunch of Loony Little and her friends.
