Chris Grabenstein
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--Provided by publisher
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Everyone's favorite game maker, Mr. Lemoncello, is testing out his new Fabulous Fact-Finding Frenzy game! If Kyle can make it through the first round, he and the other lucky finalists will go on a great race - by bicycle, bookmobile, and even Mr. Lemoncello's corporate banana jet! - to find fascinating facts about famous Americans. The first to bring their facts back to the library will win spectacular prizes! But when a few surprising 'facts' surface...
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Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"To win Mr. Lemoncello's new television game show, Kyle and his team have to break out of their comfort zone and walk a mile in other characters' shoes and figure out how to unlock a series of locks and break out of the game before their competition!"--
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt
Author
Series
Welcome to Wonderland volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"P.T. and Gloria try to save the Wonderland again by getting a teen singing sensation to shoot a movie at the motel"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive
Author
Series
Welcome to Wonderland volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old P.T. Wilkie may be the greatest storyteller alive. But he knows one thing for a fact: the Wonderland Motel is the best place a kid could ever live! All-you-can-eat poolside ice cream! A snack machine in the living room! A frog slide! A giant rampaging alligator! (Okay, that last one may or may not be made up.) There's only one thing the Wonderland doesn't have, though--customers. And if the Wonderland doesn't get them soon, P.T. and...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Six lucky kids go on a scavenger hunt inside Mr. Lemoncello's Gameworks factory, where they compete for a chance to win a Titanium Ticket"--
10) Evil genius
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jake McQuade's the smartest kid in the universe--or at least he was. But just as his training with the secret agency known as the Consortium is about to start, Jake's jelly beans go missing! And to make matters worse, they (and Jake's genius!) might be wearing off right when he needs his smarts most! Jake needs to solve this mystery fast. Who stole the jelly beans and why? Can Jake figure out what's going on, recover the missing jelly beans, and stop...
Author
Series
Welcome to Wonderland volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In order to save the reputation of the Wonderland, P.T. and Gloria must find the culprit who stole a royal tiara from the hotel
12) Dog Squad
Author
Series
Dog Squad volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fred, a scrappy and lovable dog, gets cast as a stand-in for the lead role in Dog Squad, a show about crime-fighting dogs, and he soon finds out the action doesn't always stop on screen"--
13) The Hanging Hill
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
During rehearsals for a play based on his stepmother's bestselling children's books, eleven-year-old Zack discovers that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead by offering up a human sacrifice
15) Cat crew
Author
Series
Dog Squad volume 2
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fred, a stray dog who became the star of the show Dog Squad, is working on a new show called Cat Crew-but when he notices the felines acting strange, he wonders if the cat crew is being electronically controlled"--
16) Genius Camp
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jake McQuade-the smartest kid in the universe-goes to a camp for geniuses, where he goes up against the Virtuoso quantum computer, the smartest machine in the universe"--
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author Chris Grabenstein and the Mystery Writers of America bring together twenty peerless puzzles—from bestselling authors such as Peter Lerangis, Stuart Gibbs, Lauren Magaziner, Kate Milford, and, of course, Grabenstein himself—in an anthology of mystery short stories that invite readers to try to unravel the riddles themselves.
From tales of hapless superheroes and stolen squirrel monkeys to murderous triplets
...19) Free Fall
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Series
Language
English
Description
The new novel in the award-winning mystery series that "moves like lightning" (Kirkus Reviews) "I didn't do it!" is something cops hear all the time. But when the plea comes from a close friend who's fallen on hard times, it's tougher to ignore, especially for young Officer Danny Boyle. It's the start of another action-packed summer for the wise cracking Boyle and straight-arrow cop (now Chief of Detectives) John Ceepak down the Jersey Shore as...
20) Fun House
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Series
Language
English
Description
Reality TV can be murder in the Jersey Shore mysteries from the #1 New York Times—bestselling author of the Mr. Lemoncello's Library series.
What if a reality TV show like Jersey Shore set up production in the fictional seaside resort Sea Haven? What if hitting the gym, tanning, and doing a little laundry aren't the only things the contestants get into. By-the-book officer John Ceepak and his wisecracking young partner, Danny Boyle, have to babysit...