Beginning Chapter Books: Series Starters | Santa Barbara Public Library

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Shrink, shrank, shrunk! Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then, one day, the ruler reads -- can it be? -- three feet, seven and three quarters inches! Is Stink shrinking? He tries everything to look like he's growing, but wearing up-and-down stripes and spiking his hair aren't fooling anyone into thinking he's taller....

42) Stoop sale treasure

Author

Haydu, Corey Ann

Series

Hand-me-down magic volume 1

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"Del loves LOTS of things! The Curious Cousins Secondhand Shoppe. Ginormous family dinners. And of course, her best-friend-cousin, Alma. Alma loves her abuelita's tasty empanadas. Her old home by the lake. And soon, she'll love living in the same place as her best-friend-cousin, Del. Yet despite having Del by her side, Alma isn't quite sure she fits in with their family at 86 1/2 Twenty-Third Avenue. It's a new life and it's all so different. When...

43) Super Spinach

Author

Shaw, Hannah Renae

Series

Adventures in Fosterland volume 2

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After undergoing a procedure at the vet, takes on the persona of Super Spinach and goes to Fosterland, where she and her sidekick Chickpea help a litter of kittens.

44) Super Turbo saves the day!

Author

Kirby, Lee

Series

Super Turbo volume 1

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After the last bell, classroom pet hamster Turbo becomes Super Turbo to fight evil, but he soon finds that he isn't the only super pet in town when he is forced to face an evil rat named Whiskerface.

45) The un-friendship bracelet

Author

Maker, Martha

Series

Craftily ever after volume 1

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Best friends Emily and Maddie spend all their time together making crafts, but when Maddie begins spending more time with gadget whiz Bella, Emily worries that she is losing her best friend.

46) The underdogs

Author

West, Tracey

Series

Underdogs (Tracey West) volume 1

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In Barksdale Academy (in the town of Barksdale) most canines strive to be Best in Show; Nova, Duke, Harley, and Peanut have never won anything, but this year Nova is determined to get her pack to pass their agility exam--even though Duke is aftraid of thehigh ramp, Harley just wants to chase squirrels, Peanut can not make it through the hoops, and Nova herself gets so excited she keeps knocking the whole practice course over.

47) We're not the champions

Author

West, Tracey

Series

Underdogs (Tracey West) volume 2

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Duke's cousin Coco, an elegant French bulldog from Paris, is coming to Barksdale Academy as an exchange student, and Duke is worried about what she will think about his often uncouth friends, the Underdogs; Coco joins Team Awesome for the K-2 exam where the Barksdale teams compete against a rival school, but it turns out that Coco has problems with the athletic events, and it is up to the Underdogs to rescue their school's reputation.

48) Word travelers and the Taj Mahal mystery

Author

Haldar, Raj

Series

Word travelers volume 1

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"It's a Super Saturday sleepover! That means best friends Eddie and Molly-Jean (who prefers to be called MJ) are going to play outside, create obstacle courses for MJ's newts, and watch their favorite movies--and then they'll travel to India to solve a mystery and help save a school--all before bedtime. In the first exciting adventure of the Word Travelers, follows two best friends as they magically travel around the world in search of a hidden treasure....