Ross Collins
Author
Series
Unlikely pair volume 1
Formats
Description
Poor Mouse! A bear has settled in his favourite chair and that chair just isn't big enough for two. Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to move the pesky Bear but nothing works and poor Mouse gives up. Once Mouse has gone, Bear gets up and walks home. But what's that? Is that a Mouse in Bear's house?!
2) Germs
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Pox, a young germ on his first assignment, not only refuses to infect a girl with chicken pox, he also helps defend her from other germs and, for his heroism, is made Honorary Chief of the Immune System.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Uh-oh! An excitable (but very loveable) dog has found his way into this First Animals book and he will NOT let any of the other animals take their turn. Dogs are far more important, after all! And when the other animals get angry, this dog comes up with a very cunning plan to outwit them . . .
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
When a platypus wanders into a zoo, he meets a variety of animals who all want to know why he should be allowed to join them.... [Once] he's gone..., they begin to wonder if perhaps they were too quick to judge. Is it possible he didn't even want to join their zoo?
5) Medusa Jones
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In ancient Greece, Medusa Jones, a gorgon, and her friends, a minotaur and a centaur, are mocked and sneered at by the other Acropolis Academy children whose parents are kings and gods, but when they go on a school camping trip together, the "freaks" become true heroes.
Author
Series
Unlikely pair volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The tables have turned in this hilarious follow-up to There's a Bear on My Chair. But this time it's Bear who has an unwelcome guest, and this mouse just won't leave! He's making a real commotion in Bear's house--eating all the food, listening to loud music, and even spilling bathwater all over the floor! But when there's an unexpected knock at the door, will Bear decide that visitors aren't so bad after all?
8) Doodleday
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Despite his mother's warning, young Harvey draws on Doodleday, but when his drawings come to life in frightening ways, only his mother can help.
9) Busy night
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Ben goes to bed, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, Santa Claus, and others come into his room and argue so loudly that they wake him up.
10) Beetle blast
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
On a trip to a pond with a local nature group, twins Josh and Danny accidentally eat a muffin laced with Petty Potts' SWITCH spray and are transformed into very stinky beetles.
Author
Series
Tales from the five kingdoms volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
The sorceress Lady Lamorna has her heart set on a very expensive new robe, and she will stop at nothing--including kidnapping and black magic--to get the money to pay for it.
12) The bag of bones
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"... the beady-eyed, green-tongued witch Truda Hangnail spreads evil along her path to succeed Queen Bluebell, enlisting the kingdom's rats and shrinking the good witches of Wadingburn to pave her way to the throne. Luckily, a sweet-natured orphan named Loobly is witness to Truda's evil spells and sets off to fetch help."--Jacket flap.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus embark on a dwarf-watching outing, not knowing that the dwarves are working frantically making crowns for a royal wedding and that they have enlisted some unreliable trolls to help them, thus putting the humans' expedition in peril.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
On Gracie Gillypot's birthday, greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, and unless Gracie can find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg, the Five Kingdoms may succumb to evil magic and Total Oblivion.
16) I am a tiger
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Despite the evidence Mouse insists that he is a tiger--or maybe a crocodile.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Things start looking up for Emily and Jackson when Emily's inheritance clears and Aunt Hilda becomes her legal guardian and offers to become Jackson's, as well, but Uncle Victor reappears, willing to do anything to steal Emily's fortune.
18) Emily's fortune
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.
Author
Series
Mabel Jones volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Mabel Jones finds herself aboard the Feroshus Maggot--a ship crewed by the strangest bunch of pirates you'd (never) want to meet. She then has to find pieces of an X-shaped puzzle that in her hands could be her ticket home, but in the hands of Captain Split, they'd give him the power to assemble a pirate militia to take over London!"--