Johnsburg Public Library

 

1/14/2008 @ 10:00am      Lemony Snicket Read-A-Like                 

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J FIC AIK                    

           Aiken, Joan, 1924-.  The wolves of Willoughby Chase.  One

                previous ed.  New York, NY : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for

                Young Readers, 1987.

 

J FIC ARDAGH                 

           Ardagh, Philip.  Dreadful acts.  1st American ed.  New York : H.

                Holt, 2003, c2001.  Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives

                encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's

                coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely

                assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.

 

J FIC ARDAGH                 

           Ardagh, Philip.  A house called Awful End.  1st American ed.  New

                York : H. Holt, 2002, c2000.  When eleven-year-old Eddie

                Dickens's ill parents become "a bit crinkly round the

                edges," he is taken by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad

                Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures

                that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for

                Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant

                cow.

 

J FIC DAH                    

           Dahl, Roald.  James and the giant peach : a children's story.

                New York : Puffin Books, 1988, c1961.

 

J FIC DAH                    

           Dahl, Roald.  Matilda.  New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1996,

                c1988.  Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid

                the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss

                Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to

                financial security.

 

J FIC DAH                    

           Dahl, Roald.  The witches.  1st American ed.  New York : Farrar,

                Straus, Giroux, 1983.  A young boy and his Norwegian

                grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a

                witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning

                them into mice.

 

J FIC DITERLIZZI             

           DiTerlizzi, Tony.  The seeing stone.  1st ed.  New York : Simon &

                Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003.  When Mallory and

                Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins, they use a

                magical stone which enables them to see things that are

                normally invisible.

 

J FIC DITERLIZZI             

           DiTerlizzi, Tony.  Lucinda's secret.  1st ed.  New York : Simon &

                Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003.  With goblins,

                trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the

                Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.

 

J FIC GARFIELD               

           Garfield, Leon.  The strange affair of Adelaide Harris.  Farrar,

                Straus and Giroux ed.  New York : Farrar Straus Giroux,

                2001.  An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an

                abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two

                schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the

                child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.

 

J FIC HOR                    

           Horvath, Polly.  The trolls.  1st ed.  New York : Farrar Straus

                Giroux, c1999.  Eccentric Aunt Sally comes from Canada to

                babysit the Anderson children while their parents are on a

                trip to Paris and every night the bedtime story adds another

                piece to a very suspect family history.

 

J FIC HOR                    

           Horvath, Polly.  Everything on a waffle.  New York : Farrar

                Straus Giroux, 2001.  Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a

                small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her

                experiences and all that she learns about human nature and

                the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents

                are lost at sea.

 

J FIC IBB                    

           Ibbotson, Eva.  Island of the aunts.  1st American ed.  New York

                : Dutton Children's Books, 2000.  As they get older, several

                sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them

                to their secluded island home to help with the work of

                caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.

 

J FIC IBB                    

           Ibbotson, Eva.  The secret of platform 13.  New York : Puffin

                Books, 1999, c1994.  Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies

                an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on their

                mission through a magical tunnel from their Island to London

                to rescue their King and Queen's son, who had been stolen as

                an infant.

 

J FIC IBB                    

           Ibbotson, Eva.  Which witch?  1st American ed.  New York : Dutton

                Children's Books, 1999.  Deciding that he must sire a child

                to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting

                the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a

                competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will

                marry him.

 

J FIC IBB                    

           Ibbotson, Eva.  Dial-a-ghost.  1st American ed.  New York :

                Dutton Children's Books, 2001.  A family of nice ghosts

                protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his

                evil guardians.

 

J FIC PUL                    

           Pullman, Philip, 1946-.  Clockwork : or, all wound up.  New York

                : Arthur A. Levine Books, 1996.  Long ago in Germany, a

                storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork-maker's

                nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the

                strange Dr. Kalmenius.

 

J FIC SACHAR                 

           Sachar, Louis, 1954-.  Holes.  1st ed.  New York : Farrar, Straus

                and Giroux, 1998.  As further evidence of his family's bad

                fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant

                relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional

                camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real

                friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

 

 

J FIC STEWART                

           Stewart, Paul, 1955-.  Beyond the Deepwoods.  1st American ed.

                New York : David Fickling Books, 2004.  Thirteen-year-old

                Twig, having always looked and felt different from his

                woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out

                of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.

 

YA FIC GARFIELD              

           Garfield, Leon.  Black Jack.  1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.

                New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.  A young

                apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange

                adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a

                wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.