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It is Valentine's Day and Rotten Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, is up to his rotten tricks

Miscellaneous:

9780547350417 | Houghton Mifflin, January 17, 2005, cover price $7.99 | also contains Rotten Ralph's Rotten Romance

Prebinding:

9781417717767 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2004, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: It is Valentine's Day and Rotten Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, is up to his rotten tricks

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Product Description: Sarah wakes Ralph up with a great big kiss. “Happy Valentine’s Day!” she says. Rotten Ralph hides under his pillow. Sarah is very excited to take Ralph to Petunia’s Valentine’s Day Party. But Ralph will do almost anything to avoid the party and drippy Valentine kisses...read more

Paperback:

9780618494866 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, January 17, 2005), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: It is Valentine's Day and Rotten Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, is up to his rotten tricks

Miscellaneous:

9780547350417 | Houghton Mifflin, January 17, 2005, cover price $7.99 | also contains Rotten Ralph's Rotten Romance

School and Library:

9780395739785 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1997, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: It is Valentine's Day and Rotten Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, is up to his rotten tricks

Reinforced:

9780606330428 | Demco Media, December 27, 2004, cover price $14.66 | About this edition: It is Valentine's Day and Rotten Ralph, a very, very nasty cat, is up to his rotten tricks

Prebinding:

9781439549759 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, September 18, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Sarah wakes Ralph up with a great big kiss.

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The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Paperback:

9780312641573 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, April 24, 2012), cover price $9.99
9780786273379 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 14, 2005), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
9780099475873 | New edition (Gardners Books, January 6, 2005), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Jack Gantos had a peripatetic childhood around the US and the Caribbean.
9780374430894 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 8, 2004), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780807216446 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, July 1, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
9780807216453 | Abridged edition (Listening Library, July 1, 2003), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Becoming a writer the hard wayIn the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job.

School and Library:

9780374399887 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 26, 2002, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Reinforced:

9780606308595 | Demco Media, July 30, 2004, cover price $16.80 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Prebinding:

9781435233607 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 11, 2008), cover price $17.00
9781417639083 | Turtleback Books, September 8, 2004, cover price $18.45 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Sarah's rotten cat Ralph goes to a Halloween costume party dressed as her and creates horrible mischief under the protection of his disguise

Paperback:

9780618494958, titled "Rotten Ralph's Trick Or Treat" | Pap/cas edition (Sandpiper, August 30, 2004), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sarah's rotten cat Ralph goes to a Halloween costume party dressed as her and creates horrible mischief under the protection of his disguise
9780395486559, titled "Rotten Ralph's Trick or Treat!" | Sandpiper, October 24, 1988, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Sarah's rotten cat Ralph goes to a Halloween costume party dressed as her and creates horrible mischief under the protection of his disguise

Miscellaneous:

9780547350431, titled "Rotten Ralph's Trick or Treat" | Houghton Mifflin, August 30, 2004, cover price $7.95

School and Library:

9780395389430, titled "Rotten Ralph's Trick or Treat!" | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1986, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Sarah's rotten cat Ralph goes to a Halloween costume party dressed as her and creates horrible mischief under the protection of his disguise.

Reinforced:

9780606043106, titled "Rotten Ralph's Trick or Treat" | Demco Media, September 1, 1988, cover price $13.30 | About this edition: Sarah's rotten cat Ralph goes to a Halloween costume party dressed as her and creates horrible mischief under the protection of his disguise

Prebinding:

9780833527424, titled "Rotten Ralph's Trick or Treat!" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Sarah's rotten cat Ralph goes to a Halloween costume party dressed as her and creates horrible mischief under the protection of his disguise

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To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.

Paperback:

9789580456353 | Norma S A Editorial, February 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.

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Santa Claus is coming to town and Rotten Ralph is determined to make a purr-fect impression.

Paperback:

9780694009862, titled "The Christmas Spirit Strikes Rotten Ralph" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Ralph decides to impress Santa Claus by stealing his neighbor's Christmas lights, decorating everything with red paint, and taking the angel's halo for himself

Prebinding:

9780613185028 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $15.25 | About this edition: Ralph decides to impress Santa Claus by stealing his neighbor's Christmas lights, decorating everything with red paint, and taking the angel's halo for himself

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Afraid of being left alone, Rotten Ralph, the nasty red cat, follows Sarah to school and tries to prevent her from making new friends

Prebinding:

9780613309745 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Afraid of being left alone, Rotten Ralph, the nasty red cat, follows Sarah to school and tries to prevent her from making new friends

Rotten Ralph the cat is up to his usual rotten behavior as Sarah prepares for his birthday party.
By Nicole Rubel (illustrator)

Miscellaneous:

9780547350547, titled "Happy Birthday, Rotten Ralph" | Houghton Mifflin, April 30, 2001, cover price $7.95 | also contains Happy Birthday Rotten Ralph

Reinforced:

9780606076081 | Demco Media, September 1, 1994, cover price $16.90 | also contains Happy Birthday Rotten Ralph | About this edition: Rotten Ralph the cat is up to his usual rotten behavior as Sarah prepares for his birthday party.

Prebinding:

9780613127196 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph the cat is up to his usual rotten behavior as Sarah prepares for his birthday party.

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Rotten Ralph's birthday activities include searching Sarah's closet for his present, squirting toothpaste into her slippers, and popping the balloons, but when Sarah finally becomes annoyed, Ralph realizes he has gone too far. Read by the author.

Paperback:

9780618125395 | Pap/cas edition (Sandpiper, April 30, 2001), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph the cat is up to his usual rotten behavior as Sarah prepares for his birthday party.
9780395700914 | Houghton Mifflin, September 26, 1994, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph the cat is up to his usual rotten behavior as Sarah prepares for his birthday party.

Miscellaneous:

9780547350547, titled "Happy Birthday, Rotten Ralph" | Houghton Mifflin, April 30, 2001, cover price $7.95 | also contains Happy Birthday Rotten Ralph

School and Library:

9780395537664, titled "Happy Birthday, Rotten Ralph" | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1990, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph the cat is up to his usual rotten behavior as Sarah prepares for his birthday party.

Reinforced:

9780606076081 | Demco Media, September 1, 1994, cover price $16.90 | also contains Happy Birthday Rotten Ralph | About this edition: Rotten Ralph the cat is up to his usual rotten behavior as Sarah prepares for his birthday party.

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Product Description: An "exhilarating prison novel" (says the Boston Globe) by a 1999 National Book Award Nominee

Hardcover:

9781882593156 | Bridge Works Pub Co, September 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Ray Jakes, a marijuana smuggler, is sent to a federal prison in New York where he forms a friendship with an Elvis impersonator, in prison for running Elvis scams, and together they struggle to survive the brutal life behind bars

Paperback:

9781882593392 | Bridge Works Pub Co, October 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An "exhilarating prison novel" (says the Boston Globe) by a 1999 National Book Award Nominee

Sarah's mischievous cat, Rotten Ralph, is sent to feline finishing school, but Sarah finds she liked him better the way he was

Hardcover:

9780395623022 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1994, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Sarah's mischievous cat, Rotten Ralph, is sent to feline finishing school, but Sarah finds she liked him better the way he was

Paperback:

9780618081264 | Pap/cas edition (Houghton Mifflin, September 26, 2000), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sarah's mischievous cat, Rotten Ralph, is sent to feline finishing school, but Sarah finds she liked him better the way he was.
9780395851562 | Reissue edition (Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1997), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Sarah's mischievous cat, Rotten Ralph, is sent to feline finishing school, but Sarah finds she liked him better the way he was

Miscellaneous:

9780547350561 | Houghton Mifflin, September 26, 2000, cover price $7.95

Reinforced:

9780606116909 | Reissue edition (Demco Media, April 1, 1997), cover price $15.80 | About this edition: Sarah's mischievous cat, Rotten Ralph, is sent to feline finishing school, but Sarah finds she liked him better the way he was

Prebinding:

9780613029889 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Sarah's mischievous cat, Rotten Ralph, is sent to feline finishing school, but Sarah finds she liked him better the way he was

After his cat cousin takes over the kitchen on Thanksgiving, Rotten Ralph is too busy stealing the silverware and destroying the dessert to help prepare the meal

Paperback:

9780694009879 | Harperfestival, September 1, 1999, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: After his cat cousin takes over the kitchen on Thanksgiving, Rotten Ralph is too busy stealing the silverware and destroying the dessert to help prepare the meal

Reinforced:

9780606251860 | Demco Media, December 1, 1999, cover price $15.04 | About this edition: After his cat cousin takes over the kitchen on Thanksgiving, Rotten Ralph is too busy stealing the silverware and destroying the dessert to help prepare the meal

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Rotten Ralph, the world's rottenest red cat, finds things going downhill during the Christmas season when his owner Sarah brings home a new cat, a cute, fluffy goody-goody named Percy
By Jack Gantos and Nicole Rubel (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780395456859, titled "Rotten Ralph's Rotten Christmas" | Reprint edition (Sandpiper, September 21, 1987), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph, the cat, is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor.

School and Library:

9780395353806, titled "Rotten Ralph's Rotten Christmas" | Houghton Mifflin, September 24, 1984, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph, the cat, is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor.

Prebinding:

9780833521507, titled "Rotten Ralph's Rotten Christmas" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph, the cat, is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor.

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Ralph, little Sarah's mischievous red cat, is up to his usual pranks as Sarah races to repair his sabotage while serving as the flower girl at Aunt Martha's wedding. By the author of Back to School for Rotten Ralph.
By Jack Gantos and Nicole Rubel (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780060275334 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Sarah's high-spirited, poorly behaved cat, Ralph, disrupts her aunt's wedding with his outlandish antics

Library:

9780060275341 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1999, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Sarah's high-spirited, poorly behaved cat, Ralph, disrupts her aunt's wedding with his outlandish antics

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Children will love to lift the flaps to uncover Rotten Ralph's capers through a haunted mansion on Halloween as he unbolts Frankenstein's head, grosses out a ghoul, drinks a vampire's mug o' blood, and more.

Paperback:

9780694009855 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph, the nasty red cat, proves himself to be the real monster on Halloween

Prebinding:

9780613194426 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph, the nasty red cat, proves himself to be the real monster on Halloween

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Product Description: From the Newbery Medal–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, eight more hysterical semi-autobiographical Jack Henry stories about a sixth grader's trials and tribulationsJack's life is a crazy roller-coaster ride. At his fifth school in six years, he has a crackpot teacher who won't give him a break about his lousy handwriting and a secret crush who wants to be a policewoman...read more

Paperback:

9780374429232 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, September 19, 1995), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird

School and Library:

9780374329099 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird

Reinforced:

9780606093972 | Demco Media, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.80 | About this edition: Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird

Prebinding:

9781439518533 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: From the Newbery Medal–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, eight more hysterical semi-autobiographical Jack Henry stories about a sixth grader's trials and tribulationsJack's life is a crazy roller-coaster ride.
9780785783770 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird

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Sarah takes her rotten cat Ralph to school for Show and Tell and he behaves terribly, as usual, by spoiling everyone's show

Paperback:

9780395602850, titled "Rotten Ralph's Show and Tell" | Reprint edition (Sandpiper, October 28, 1991), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Sarah takes her rotten cat Ralph to school for Show and Tell and he behaves terribly, as usual, by spoiling everyone's show

Miscellaneous:

9780547350424, titled "Rotten Ralph's Show and Tell" | Houghton Mifflin, October 28, 1991, cover price $7.95

School and Library:

9780395443125, titled "Rotten Ralph's Show and Tell" | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1989, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Sarah takes her rotten cat Ralph to school for Show and Tell and he behaves terribly, as usual, by spoiling everyone's show.

Prebinding:

9780833582089, titled "Rotten Ralph's Show and Tell" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Sarah takes her rotten cat Ralph to school for Show and Tell and he behaves terribly, as usual, by spoiling everyone's show

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Rotten Ralph, the world's naughtiest red cat, finds things going downhill during the Christmas holidays when his owner, Sarah, brings home a new kitten, a cute, fluffy goody-goody named Percy
By Jack Gantos and Nicole Rubel (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780395453469 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Rotten Ralph, the cat, is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor.

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Rotten Ralph makes an earnest attempt at good behavior but is enticed, not too reluctantly, into a series of misadventures by some ruffian alley cats.

Paperback:

9780395329191 | Sandpiper, October 25, 1982, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Mean, rotten Ralph returns, trying to behave himself after his last misadventures, until some alley cats call him a softy which leads him to pull some really awful tricks.

Miscellaneous:

9780547350493 | Houghton Mifflin, October 25, 1982, cover price $7.95

Prebinding:

9780808590958 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Mean, rotten Ralph returns, trying to behave himself after his last misadventures, until some alley cats call him a softy which leads him to pull some really awful tricks.

An alligator who loves to play in mud and slime is given a birthday bath by his friends.

Hardcover:

9780671960926 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1982, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: After frolicking in the slime, throwing mud on his head, and filling his ears with dirt, Swampy Alligator feels fine, but his friends--Turtle, Muskrat, and Raccoon--are acting very strangely

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When a family reunion falls on a full moon, Harry, Mary, and their werewolf parents shock Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Igo with their fiendish craving to boil their cousins in the applebobbing pot

School and Library:

9780395287606 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: At a family reunion held when the moon is full, the Werewolf family astounds its relatives with bizarre behavior.

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Product Description: Willy's Raiders, who always play fair and square, prove the good guys always win when they go up for the championship against the Weasels, who resort to dirty tricks.

Hardcover:

9780525310167, titled "Willy's Raiders" | Olympic Marketing Corp, April 1, 1980, cover price $2.98 | also contains Boopie | About this edition: Willy's Raiders, who always play fair and square, prove the good guys always win when they go up for the championship against the Weasels, who resort to dirty tricks.

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After disobeying his mother's orders not to eat the watermelon, Greedy Greeny Monster dreams that he has become a giant watermelon that another hungry family is planning to have for dessert

Hardcover:

9780385146852 | Doubleday, October 1, 1979, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A little monster, having disobeyed his mother by eating the watermelon intended for the family's dessert, suffers for his greed in a subsequent dream.

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Wendell, the pet store salesman, helps Vanessa to find just the right pal for her.

School and Library:

9780395283806 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1979, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Vanessa collects a hectic houseful of assorted creatures before she manages to discover what a perfect pal is

Though best friends, Maggie and Chester must separate as she prefers to live in the North and he, the South.

School and Library:

9780395251560 | Houghton Mifflin, February 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Maggie's love of the North and the snow and Chester's fondness for the warmth of the South present a real dilemma for the two very close friends

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