The Good, The Bad, And The Goofy
Accidental time travelers Joe, Sam, and Fred find themselves in the much too rowdy Wild West of yesteryear, rubbing elbows with cowboys and Indians.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 97
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: time travel, cowboys, indians of north america, native americans, space and time, west (u.s.), fantasy, cowhands, cowboys & native americans
Knights Of The Kitchen Table
One minute they're looking at pictures of knights in the book, a birthday gift from Joe's magician uncle, the next minute they're battling fire-breathing dragons.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 129
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: time travel, knights and knighthood, space and time, magic, humorous stories, time warp trio (fictitious characters)
The Not-so-jolly Roger
Blackbeard, the meanest pirate ever, has our accidental time travelers cornered.
398.2
year: 2007
copies: 122
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 650
See You Later, Gladiator
Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they are transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 67
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
Sam Samurai
Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported to seventeenth century Japan where they infuriate a Samurai warrior, encounter their great-grandaughters, and save their lives by reciting an ancient form of poetry.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 68
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
Marco? Polo!
A biography of the Venetian traveler whose trips throughout Asia and China gave the European world its first knowledge of the Far East.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
Viking It & Liking It
Sam says the word "Thursday" one too many times next to the magic book and lands himself, Joe, and Fred in 1000 A.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: ericson, leif, vikings, time travel, sailing, time warp trio (fictitious characters), fantasy, time warp trio (fictional characters)
Cowboy & Octopus
A cowboy and an octopus learn a thing or two about friendship as they struggle through a knock-knock joke, ugly hats, and a special dinner of beans.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 65
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 350
Smash! Crash!
Jack, a big-rig truck, and his best friend Dan the dump truck, spend their days having fun crashing and smashing things all across town.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 40
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 130
subjects: trucks
Knucklehead
Jon Scieszka grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner creating the funny guy he is today.
920
year: 2008
copies: 77
call number/section: 920
lexile: 750
The Frog Prince, Continued
After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.
398.2
year: 2003
copies: 158
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 600
Math Curse
In this Reading Rainbow feature, when the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 247
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: math anxiety, mathematics, schools, worry, children's audiobooks, audiobooks, school stories
The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Presents wacky retellings of ten well-known fairy tales such as "Chicken Little," "The Princess and the Pea," and "The Gingerbread Man.
398.2
year: 2007
copies: 228
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 520
The True Story Of The 3 Little Pigs
Alexander T. Wolf gives his own bizarre version of what really happened between the three little pigs and the big bad wolf.
398.2
year: 2009
copies: 377
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 570
2095
While on a field trip to New York's Museum of Natural History, Joe, Sam, and Fred travel one hundred years into the future, where they encounter robots, anti-gravity disks, and their own grandchildren.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 73
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590