Chris O'Dowd
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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MARTIN MOONE AND HIS IMAGINARY FRIEND SEAN MURPHY ARE BACK! THE LAUGHS ARE BIGGER AND THE ADVENTURES SILLIER.
It's lean times at the Moone Boy household and all Martin wants is a Game Boy. If he wants a Game Boy though, he's going to have to work for it. So his imaginary friend, Sean, suggests he get a job...
After failing to find work as a stable boy, cowboy, or homeboy, the Moone boy instead becomes Boyle's main butcher boy. But Francie Feeley's...
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English
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Martin Moone is eleven and completely fed up with being the only boy in a family of girls. He's desperate for a decent wingman to help him navigate his idiotic life. So when best mate Padraic suggests Martin get an imaginary friend-or "IF" for short-he decides to give it a go. His first attempt is Loopy Lou, a hyperactive goofball who loves writing rubbish rap songs. But Martin soon gets fed up with Lou's loopiness and decides to trade in his IF for...
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Series
Moone Boy volume 5
Language
English
Description
Dessie is eager to move his family out of the Moone home, so he decides to launch a new business - Boyle's first Catholic bookshop. Liam is less convinced that this will be a 'cash cow' so moves on to Plan B - building them an extension in the garden. This provides a wealth of building materials for Martin who has moved into the attic and is busily renovating his new 'penthouse'.
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Series
Moone Boy volume 4
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English
Description
Soon after a UFO sighting, Martin's donkey mysteriously disappears, so he logically assumes it's been abducted by aliens. The media eagerly report his tall tale, which doesn't go down well with the Town Council who are trying to promote a gentler image of Boyle. As Martin and Padraic try to make contact with the aliens, the Council tries to strong-arm Liam into suppressing Martin's story.
Author
Series
Moone Boy volume 1
Language
English
Description
To celebrate their wedding anniversary, Liam and Debra abandon the kids and head for the sunny south-east, but their romantic getaway goes awry after a chance encounter with one of Liam's old flames. Meanwhile Martin and Padraic spend the weekend in Dublin and discover their hidden talents as encyclopedia salesmen.
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Moone Boy volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Padraic briefly runs away from home, the Moones discover that his parents are having marital problems. The troubled Padraic takes to shoplifting and is eagerly joined by Martin and Sean on his crime spree, while Debra seizes the opportunity to launch her career as a marriage counselor.
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Series
Moone Boy volume 6
Language
English
Description
Martin and Sean discover that Grandad's Alzheimer's has led to the return of his childhood imaginary friend, George Gershwin - a piano-playing swingin' cat, who's enjoying his last hurrah and wants to fulfill his bucket list before Grandad kicks the bucket.
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Series
Moone Boy volume 3
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English
Description
Fidelma, Dessie and Baby Rose move into the Moone house, making the cramped quarters even tighter. Hoping that Grandad might offer his empty house, the Moones bring him over from the nursing home and make their own house look as awful as possible. Amid the Moone slum, Martin and Padraic attempt to film a hilarious clip for a home video TV show.
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Series
Moone Boy volume 5
Language
English
Description
It's Fidelma's hen do and Dessie's stag and the Moone's get new neighbors.
Author
Series
Moone Boy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ireland has qualified for the World Cup, but it clashes with the Moones' holiday plans. Not being a fan of football, Liam insists that they head to Donegal as planned. But soon after arriving, Martin and Sean decide to hitch back to Boyle.
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Series
Moone Boy volume 2
Language
English
Description
It's Martin's first day at his new school and he promptly falls in love with his art teacher, Miss Tivnan. Meanwhile Debra discovers that the school isn't bothering to run the annual Back to School Dance this year, and so decides to organize it herself. At the dance, Martin tries to impress Miss Tivnan, but ends up making a spectacular show of himself.
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Moone Boy volume 3
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English
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Martin and Padraic are building a raft. It's their most exciting construction project yet and has almost nothing to do with being forced to read 'Huckleberry Finn' at school. Their plan is to sail it into town on a hot, sunny day and eat ice-creams on it and let all their friends swim off it and be the most popular lads in town.
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Series
Moone Boy volume 4
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English
Description
Martin sees 'The Greatest thing his little eyes have ever witnessed' and with money tight in the Moone household he sets to work on the golf course. An old rivalry rears its head and Liam challenges his nemesis to a 'Handball duel'.
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Series
Moone Boy volume 6
Language
English
Description
It's Fidelma and Dessie's wedding. Martin has to say a heartbreaking goodbye.
15) The Sapphires
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English
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In 1968, four smart, gutsy young Australian Aboriginal women become unlikely stars by singing for the U.S. troops in Vietnam. With the help of an R&B-loving Irish musician, Dave Lovelace (Chris O'Dowd of BRIDESMAIDS, TV's GIRLS), they transform themselves into a sizzling soul act and set out to make a name for themselves hundreds of miles from home. Inspired by a true story, THE SAPPHIRES is a celebration of music, family, and self-discovery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Martin Moone is eleven and completely fed up with being the only boy in a family of girls. He's desperate for a decent wingman to help him navigate his idiotic life. So when best mate Padraic suggests Martin get an imaginary friend-or "IF" for short-he decides to give it a go.
His first attempt is Loopy Lou, a hyperactive goofball who loves writing rubbish rap songs. But Martin soon gets fed up with Lou's loopiness and decides to trade in his IF...
17) Love after love
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English
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In the wake of a husband and father's death, the family members left behind find themselves adrift. Mother Suzanne tentatively seeks companionship, but her attempts at dating only drive a wedge between her and older son Nicholas, whose own relationship with his girlfriend is disintegrating. Meanwhile, younger son Chris deals with grief in his own complicated and increasingly worrying way.
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English
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Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - a venerable, impossible-to-please music critic with an insatiable lust for fame, fortune, and men. It isn't long before the rapid pace at which Johanna's life is changing becomes overwhelming and she runs face-first into a devastatingly real, existential crisis: Is this the type of girl she wants to become? Or does she need to start over and...
19) Loving Vincent
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English
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In the first fully painted feature film, 2018 Oscar-nominated LOVING VINCENT tells the story of the mysterious and tragic death of the world's most famous artist, Vincent van Gogh. Featuring the voices of Saoirse Ronan and Chris O'Dowd.
20) The double
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English
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Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite: confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his...