Carson Ellis
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
Language
English
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Bedford Library: Middle Grade Mysteries Booklist
Massachusetts Children's Book Award
Page to Screen
STO Series Starters: Kids
Massachusetts Children's Book Award
Page to Screen
STO Series Starters: Kids
Description
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
2) Du iz tak?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Artificial
Description
Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 2
Language
English
Description
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Maybe Archie Coomes has been watching too many horror movies. All of a sudden, the most ordinary things have taken on a sinister edge: a penny on a doormat. A man in a brown suit under a streetlamp. The persistent sound of an ax chopping in the middle of the night. He keeps telling himself that this is Seaham, a sleepy seaside town where nothing ever happens. Or at least nothing did, until his dad's construction company opened up the cliff beneath...
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Prue and Curtis are thrown together again to save themselves and the lives of their friends, and to bring unity to the divided country of Wildwood"--
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
When a young girl's midnight seance awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.
7) Home
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
Author
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a troupe of pickpockets pull off an incredible robbery in a busy Marseille square, Charlie Fisher agrees to protect one of the thieves if they teach him their ways, leading him into a world of adventure with global stakes.
From the creator of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpockets--imagine The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The light of the half moon Shines down on the half room . . .The half room is full of half things. A half chair, a half cat, even half shoes--all just as nice as whole things. When half a knock comes on half a door, who in the world could it be? With inventive flair, Caldecott Honor winner Carson Ellis explores halves and wholes in an ingenious and thought-provoking picture book. Ink and gouache illustrations featuring wry detail and velvety textures...
10) What is love?
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy sets out to find someone to answer a question that he asks his grandmother, and eventually his quest leads him back home.
12) Wildwood
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
13) The shortest day
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again"--
14) Du iz tak
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Du iz tak? What is that? As a tiny shoot unfurls, two damselflies peer at it in wonder. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soon--with the help of a pill bug named Icky--they wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort. But this is the wild world, after all, and something horrible is waiting to swoop down--booby voobeck!--only to be carried off in turn. Su! With exquisitely detailed illustrations and...
15) Urijip
Author
Publisher
Pukkŭkkom
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Korean
Description
"A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings."--
17) Du iz tak?
Author
Series
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?
18) Hogar
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home. Depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
19) Mil hogares
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
