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Lizard Music
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Paperback (Yearling, Jan. 29, 1996)Home alone Victor stays up late, visits the zoo, enjoys pizza with anchovies, and finally becomes one of the few people who know about a community of intelligent lizards which appears to have arrived from another planet
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The Hoboken chicken emergency
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Hardcover (Prentice-Hall, Aug. 16, 1977)Arthur goes to pick up the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner but comes back with a 260-pound chicken.
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Bad Bear Detectives
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater
Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Aug. 7, 2006)When a shipment of imported Italian muffins goes missing, Irving and Muktuk become the key suspects. Everyone knows their weakness for muffins and immediately think they are responsible!Irving and Muktuk realize that in order to clear their smirched names, they have to find the culprit themselves. They disguise themselves, sniff out some clues, interview possible witnesses, and try to find the thief. As with all good mysteries, the clues lead to a surprise ending.
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Bongo Larry
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater
Paperback (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, Oct. 15, 2004)Larry the polar bear's new interest in playing the bongos leads to an impromptu performance with Big Bear at the Cafe Mama Bear.
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Pickle Creature
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Library Binding (Atheneum, Feb. 1, 1979)Instead of the pickle his grandmother asked him to get at the supermarket, Conrad brings home a pickle creature.
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Dancing Larry
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater
Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, March 15, 2006)Larry the polar bear follows in the footsteps of little Mildred Frobisher's ballet class to overcome strict Madame Swoboda's admonition that "bears have no place in ballet."
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Young Adult Novel
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Hardcover (Crowell, Jan. 27, 1982)The Wild Dada Ducks members cause all sorts of mischief around their junior high school, but although the boys are not bad, they like to pretend that they are true dadaists with unintentional and irrational behavior.
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Fat Men from Space
Daniel Pinkwater
eBook (, April 7, 2014)When young William gets a filling in his tooth that can pick up radio transmissions, he discovers that hungry aliens are plotting a sinister junk food takeover of Earth.
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The Frankenbagel Monster
Daniel J. Pinkwater
Hardcover (Dutton Books for Young Readers, Oct. 21, 1986)When a night-roaming monster is seen in various sections of the city, few people suspect that it is the creation of the local bagel maker, Harold Frankenbagel.
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The Education of Robert Nifkin
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1998)In a college application essay, high-school junior Robert Nifkin colorfully describes his high-school experiences, noting his migration from Chicago public school to the chaotic Wheaton School, where the 1950s beatnik counterculture was in full swing.
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Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct. 1, 1979)While visiting Rochester, New York, young Eugene meets the strange Professor Ambrose McFwain and goes out with him in his boat to search for a mysterious sea monster that has been sighted on Lake Ontario.
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