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What is LEGO?

O'Connor, Jim,


What is LEGO? -- A toy maker -- Plastic -- LEGO takes off! -- How are LEGO bricks made? -- Branching out -- LEGO's little people -- Good times/Tough times -- A new leader -- Designing LEGO sets -- LEGO around the wolorld. "The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter who loved making wooden pull toys. From its humble beginnings, the company has lived up to its name--which comes from the Danish phrase meaning to always "play well"--encouraging children to use their imagination and build whatever they can dream up. In this book, author Jim O'Connor describes how a simple concept--small plastic bricks that snap together--morphed into a cultural phenomenon"--
Date Published:2020

What is LEGO? -- A toy maker -- Plastic -- LEGO takes off! -- How are LEGO bricks made? -- Branching out -- LEGO's little people -- Good times/Tough times -- A new leader -- Designing LEGO sets -- LEGO around the wolorld. "The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter who loved making wooden pull toys. From its humble beginnings, the company has lived up to its name--which comes from the Danish phrase meaning to always "play well"--encouraging children to use their imagination and build whatever they can dream up. In this book, author Jim O'Connor describes how a simple concept--small plastic bricks that snap together--morphed into a cultural phenomenon"--

Date Published:2020

Matilda

Dahl, Roald.


Five-year old Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.
Date Published:1988

Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days /

Kinney, Jeff.


In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
Date Published:2009

Diary of a wimpy kid : double down

Kinney, Jeff


The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie... and will he become rich and famous in the process? Or will doubling down on this plan just double Greg's troubles?
Date Published:2016

The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie... and will he become rich and famous in the process? Or will doubling down on this plan just double Greg's troubles?

Date Published:2016

Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw /

Kinney, Jeff.


Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
Date Published:2009

Danny, the champion of the world

Dahl, Roald.


A young English boy describes his relationship with his father and the special adventure they share together.
Date Published:1975

George's marvelous medicine

Dahl, Roald.


RL 3. George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her.
Date Published:1981

The BFG

Dahl, Roald.


Originally published: London : J. Cape, c1982. "Puffin books.". Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Date Published:1982

Charlie and the great glass elevator

Dahl, Roald.


Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.
Date Published:1972

Charlie and the chocolate factory

Dahl, Roald.


Young Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds the very last of Mr. Willy Wonka's golden tickets inside his chocolate bar. He wins the trip of a lifetime, a magical tour around Mr. Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory. Once inside, Charlie and the other four winners--Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee--witness amazing wonders: rainbow drops, lickable wallpaper, and even a chocolate waterfall. But what happens when the children, one by one, disobey Mr. Wonka? Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
Date Published:1988

Young Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds the very last of Mr. Willy Wonka's golden tickets inside his chocolate bar. He wins the trip of a lifetime, a magical tour around Mr. Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory. Once inside, Charlie and the other four winners--Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee--witness amazing wonders: rainbow drops, lickable wallpaper, and even a chocolate waterfall. But what happens when the children, one by one, disobey Mr. Wonka? Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

Date Published:1988

Billy and the Minpins

Dahl, Roald,


Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond. So, one day, that's exactly what he does! There he meets the Minpins, tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks. They live in fear of the terrible, galloping Gruncher. Will it gobble Billy too - or can he find a way to defeat the hungry beast?
Date Published:2017

The giraffe and the pelly and me

Dahl, Roald.


First published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1985 A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.
Date Published:1992

James and the giant peach

Dahl, Roald.


Wonderful adventures abound after James escapes from his fearful aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach.
Date Published:1961

Esio Trot

Dahl, Roald.


Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
Date Published:1990

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Dahl, Roald.


Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.
Date Published:1998

The magic finger /

Dahl, Roald.


[This record reflects various editions, issued by various publishers.] Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
Date Published:1966

The twits

Dahl, Roald.


The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
Date Published:1980

The witches

Dahl, Roald.


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.
Date Published:1983

The one thing you'd save

Park, Linda Sue,


When a teacher asks her class what one thing they would save in an emergency, some students know the answer right away. Others come to their decisions more slowly. And some change their minds when they hear their classmates' responses. A lively dialog ignites as the students discover unexpected facets of one another--and themselves.
Date Published:2021

Terry Fox and me

Leatherdale, Mary Beth, ,


Includes timeline and notes from Doug Alward and Darrell Fox. "Before Terry Fox became a national hero for running the Marathon of Hope with a prosthetic leg, he was just a regular kid. In fact, he barely made his elementary school basketball team - he was the smallest in the group! . . . [But t]he qualities that have made Terry a hero - his strength, determination, and loyalty - were apparent even then . . . Over the years, [Terry and his friend, Doug Alward,] supported, challenged and helped each other become better athletes and better people." -- adapted from jacket.
Date Published:2020

Includes timeline and notes from Doug Alward and Darrell Fox. "Before Terry Fox became a national hero for running the Marathon of Hope with a prosthetic leg, he was just a regular kid. In fact, he barely made his elementary school basketball team - he was the smallest in the group! . . . [But t]he qualities that have made Terry a hero - his strength, determination, and loyalty - were apparent even then . . . Over the years, [Terry and his friend, Doug Alward,] supported, challenged and helped each other become better athletes and better people." -- adapted from jacket.

Date Published:2020