Ron Barrett
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English
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From best-selling author and illustrator Ron Barrett, who forecasted the weather in the classic picture book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, now predicts how-thanks to climate change and other unpleasantries-the world will end!
With research and really scary text by Jim Parry, The Top Ten As We Hit Bottom is a darkly humorous collection of "Top Ten" lists that highlights the predicament global warming and other impending catastrophes have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast lunch and dinner. But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers. Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Sam Sparks is a weathergirl covering the town's weather phenomenon, but chooses to hide her intelligence behind a perky exterior. Tim Lockwood is Flint's technophobic father. Brent is the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Mayor Shelbourne exploits Flint's newest invention so he can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the...
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English
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Welcome to life on a different planet!
And, by "different planet", of course, we don't mean Mars or Saturn or even Betelgeuse 5. We mean Earth, which is turning into a different and less familiar planet, before our very eyes because of climate change. This book is your field guide to life on this new version of Earth. It gives you the information you need to understand what's happening and to adapt to a new environment, it empowers you to take action...
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English
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From the creators of the bestseller CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS comes another zany, laugh-out-loud picture book!
The Town of Left and the Town of Right are separated by a dotted yellow line, and no one on either side can remember how things got to be this way! One day, an unlucky citizen crosses the line -- forcing the Order of the Ambidextrous Knights who guard the border to take action. Unfortunately, the only ammunition they have around...
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English
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Home is a Sewer is a book about growing up in New York City in the 40s and 50s and about the role street games played. The games open a window on the times, on the relationship between parents and children, on neighbors and neighborhoods, on bullying, on favoritism, on cheating, and petty sadisms, and on the democracy among children that developed in the streets. The book is, meant to make us remember, and help us explain our childhood to our children...