Alien on a Rampage
10 best books like Alien on a Rampage (Clete Barrett Smith): Hideout, Black Dragon Codex, Corby Flood, The Dragon Prophecy, The Tasters Guild, The Rat Brain Fiasco, The Princess of Trelian, Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor, Binky Takes Charge, The Legend of Diamond Lil
Author | Gordon Korman |
ISBN | 0545448662 |
The Man With The Plan and his friends return in this fifth romp in the Swindle series!
HIDEOUT: a place to escape detection, especially when being chased by someone determined to have revenge. . .
When Griffin Bing and his friends first met Luthor, he was a vicious attack dog working for the slimy...
Author | R.D. Henham |
ISBN | 0786949724 |
What happens when an evil black dragon becomes your ally?
Snatched from the street by a young black dragon, Satia seems destined to end her life as a snack. But her position as a menu item quickly changes when her black dragon captor runs into two young red dragons and a wanna-be Dragonlord. In...
Author | Paul Stewart |
ISBN | 0385750900 |
The second magical, funny, and fabulously illustrated story in the Far Flung Adventures from the authors of Fergus Crane and the Edge Chronicles.
Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed...
Daniel and Beatrice Cook race to unravel the mysteries of the Dragon Prophecy — and save the world’s dragons from an evil that could destroy them.
Brother and sister dragonology students Daniel and Beatrice Cook are looking forward to returning to their studies with Dr. Ernest Drake and...
Author | Susannah Appelbaum |
ISBN | 0375851747 |
The Poisons of Caux, Book II
A macabre and funny fantasy trilogy
After the perilous adventure of The Hollow Bettle (Book I), the dark reign of the Nightshades is over at last, and a new day has arrived in Caux, a land long ruled by poison and deceit. The ancient Prophecy-the coming of a...
Author | Julie Berry |
ISBN | 0448453592 |
I won a copy of this book from Goodreads and I received it on a Wednesday. As it turned out that was the week that my 6 year old Zachary was student of the week at school. He was so excited that he brought the book to class and the teacher read from it for two days. I was not there, of course, but she said that the book...
Part of Michelle Knudsen's exciting fantasy trilogy -- in a luminous paperback edition
Meg will soon be named the princess-heir of Trelian, but her connection to her dragon, Jakl, is making her parents' subjects uneasy. Calen is about to receive his first true mage's mark, but the ceremony...
Author | Jon Scieszka |
ISBN | 1419712187 |
Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. After an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm and flash of electricity bring Frank’s inventions—the robots Klink...
Author | Ashley Spires |
ISBN | 1554537681 |
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The author of this review received an advance copy for an honest review
A clever story for children, "Binky Takes Charge," follows the continuing adventures of Binky the Space cat (though I haven't read the others and apparently you don't need to have read the...
Author | Doreen Cronin |
ISBN | 0061779962 |
The Legend of Diamond Lil, second book in the illustrated J.J. Tully mystery series, is perfect for elementary-school kids who love adventure and animals. New York Times bestselling author Doreen Cronin brings the same wonderful humor to the JJ. Tully whodunits that she did to her beloved picture...
Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius or Anything
Author | Steve Cotler |
ISBN | 0375864377 |
Ronald "Cheesie" Mack is not a genius or anything, but he remembers everything that happened before, during, and after fifth-grade graduation, and he's written it all down in his own unique and hilarious way—with lots of lists, drawings, and splenderful (that's splendid plus wonderful!) made-up...
Author | Scott Nash |
ISBN | 0763632643 |
Hoist the Jolly Robin! Fly with a swashbuckling crew as they soar through the air — and evade danger on the ground — in search of treasure and lofty adventure.
Captain Blue Jay, notorious and feared pirate of the skies, has a fondness for collecting treasure, especially eggs. Unfortunately,...
A new world means a world of trouble...
The Paragon Engine, a machine that can unlock portals to any dimension throughout the universe, is the most powerful and dangerous invention in Templar history-and the Grey Griffins have just been pulled through it. After they are transported through...
Author | Tom Angleberger |
ISBN | 1419721224 |
When Max—Maxine Zealster—befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle School’s new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle school—the good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly. Little do they know that...
Author | Obert Skye |
ISBN | 0805092684 |
Twelve-year-old underachiever Rob has better things to do than read. His parents give him lots of books but most of them just end up in the messy pile of junk he keeps locked in his closet that once doubled as a makeshift science laboratory. One day, Rob hears weird sounds coming from behind his closet...
Author | Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
Victor Starspeeder is psyched to be starting school at the Jedi Academy. His sister, Christina does not share an enthusiasm for Victor's newfound educational path. She's horrified that her annoying baby brother will be there to cramp her style.
While Victor means well, his excess energy leads...
Author | Matt Posner |
ISBN | 1456325922 |
Your NEW favorite magic school is New York City's School of the Ages. I am a mixed-race teen from Queens, New York, and when I answer an advertisement in a magazine, the South Wind shows up at my door to introduce me to a world of adventure, power, and tragedy that feels both strange and right: ghosts, elementals,...
Matt Archer: Monster Summer
In this companion short-story to Matt Archer: Monster Hunter, fifteen-year-old Matt Archer finds himself in the Australian Outback on the trail of his latest targets...and hunting hyper-intelligent, mutated Dingoes is not his idea of a great summer vacation.
Making things more complicated,...
Billy: Messenger of Powers
Author | Michaelbrent Collings |
"BILLY WAS ONLY THIRTEEN YEARS OLD THE FIRST TIME HE DIED."
And with those words the saga of Billy Jones begins with BILLY: MESSENGER OF POWERS.
Billy, like many of us, leads what he believes is a fairly normal life: trying to get through school, trying to deal with his first crush, and...
Author | Cory Putman Oakes |
ISBN | 1492605379 |
Sometimes being different is good...even if it means having a tail and spikes
Everyone knows the dinosaur gene skips a generation. So it wasn't a complete surprise when Sawyer sprouted a tail and spikes before he started fifth grade. After all, his grandfather was part stegosaurus.
Despite...
Author | Lucy Hawking |
ISBN | 0385611919 |
Going back to the beginning of time . . . Discover the final chapter in this out-of-this-world adventure series!
One of the biggest science experiments of all time is about to take place - and George and Annie have got front-row seats! Eric, Annie's scientist dad, is heading to the Large Hadron...