by Alexander Key
A pint-size robot with a big spirit goes on an interstellar
adventure
Running low on metal, an assembly line spits out something unusual: a peculiar
little robot, no bigger than a boy. His name is Sprockets, and though he is
small, he has the most powerful electronic brain on Earth. “Destroy him!” cries
the foreman, but Sprockets escapes. He runs through the moonlit city, pushing
his little body as hard as he can until rain starts to fall—and he begins to
rust. But Sprockets is rescued just in time by Jim and his father, Dr. Bailey—a
brilliant inventor who sometimes has trouble with fractions. Luckily for him,
there is no finer tabulator than Sprockets.
They adopt this little robot as their own, and soon set off for another
world—where Sprockets will be charged with saving the universe and learning
what it is to be alive.
Sprockets is the 1st book in the Sprockets series, which also
includes Rivets and Sprockets and Bolts. – Amazon.
by Alexander Key
Captured by spies, a robot dog fights to return to his master
The Consolidated Mechanical Men Corporation makes all sorts of robots, but it
has never produced a robot dog. When Bingo Brown, grandson of the famous navy
inventor Commander Brown, sends in a request for just such a marvel, the
engineers do their best, but no matter what they try, their standard brain just
won’t fit inside the pooch’s head. Finally, they shave a bit off either side of
the gray matter, and the result is Bolts: a scrappy little mutt with razor
teeth, a razor wit, and a habit of speaking his utterly deranged mind.
When a gang of Mongolian spies searching for Consolidated’s new superbrain
diverts Bingo Brown’s shipment, the puppy puts up quite a fight. On the run
from spies and desperate to find his owner, Bolts will prove that his bite is
just as bad as his bark.
Bolts is the 3rd book in the Sprockets series, which also
includes Sprockets and Rivets and Sprockets. –
Amazon.
by Margaret Embry, Carl Rose
Trick or treating is a new game for a real little witch. –
Amazon.
Duck and His Friends (A Little Golden Book)
by B & K Jackson, Richard Scarry
Story begins: Now Jack Rabbit and Duck and Mouse went
everywhere together and they were the best of friends. And not one of the three
liked the water... (- Amazon.)
by Paul F. Auster
Paul Auster, the New York Times-bestselling author of The New
York Trilogy presents a dazzling, picaresque novel set in the late 1920s – the
era of Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Al Capone. Walter Claireborne Rawley,
renowned nationwide as "Walt the Wonder Boy," is a Saint Louis orphan
rescued from the streets by a mysterious Hungarian Jew, Master Yehudi, who teaches
Walt to walk on air. Master Yehudi brings Walt into a Kansas circus troupe
consisting of Mother Sioux and Aesop, a young black genius. The vaudeville act
takes them across a vast and vibrant country, through mythic Americana where
they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku
Klux Klan to the Chicago mob. Walt's rise to fame and fortune mirrors America's
own coming of age, and his resilience, like that of the nation, is challenged
over and over and over again. – Amazon.
by Eleanor Estes, Edward Ardizzone
Old Witch, Little Witch Girl, Weeny Witch, and two real girls
in a fantasy that blends the worlds of reality and imagination. A Halloween
classic about the power of make-believe. – Amazon.
Fairy Tales From The British Isles. by Amabel Williams-Ellis. Illustrated By Pauline Diana Baynes
by Evgeny Schwartz.
Read the entire story in a reading textbook in Fourth Grade. When four children who only waste their time find their youth stolen by four witches and wizards, they discover that their now elderly bodies unrecognizable by their parents and friends. Somehow they must track down the evil-doers and regain their lives again.
by Susan Cooper
On their idyllic Bahamian island, Trey's little brother, Lou,
is different -- he doesn't speak and he suffers frightening seizures. But when
he and Trey find themselves mysteriously transported to Pangaia, an alternative
universe where pollution and over-development have all but destroyed nature, a
militant underground environmental group greets him as the prophesied hero who
will save their world.
But to realize this prophecy, Lou must take Trey on a terrifying and dangerous
mission, with much more at stake than the fate of Pangaia. Does Lou have the
power to save their own island home from a future as bleak as the world they've
seen in Pangaia? – Amazon.
Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly
by Edward Lear
When Uncle Arly bends over to pick up a railroad ticket a cricket jumps on the end of his nose where it remains until he dies. – Amazon. We read this little book about Uncle Arly ("unclearly") back in McQueeney, and I've always wanted a copy.
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