eccentrics and eccentricities

As her father prepares to marry their new neighbor, Veronica Kreep, Polly tries to convince him that there is something sinister and strange about Veronica and her family.

Polly's mad-scientist stepbrother, Damon, spends hours in his creepy basement laboratory preparing to enter the school science fair. Polly doesn't know what is worse, that Damon is clearly up to no good with his experiment or that he might actually win first place at the fair.

Polly wants to join the soccer team to have some normal fun, away from her weird new step family. But her witchy stepmother, Veronica Kreep, is determined to be Polly's biggest fan.

Stargirl, a teen who animates quiet Mica High with her colorful personality, suddenly finds herself shunned for her refusal to conform. Presented in English and Chinese.

Twelve-year-old Olivia Kidney and her father move into a Manhattan brownstone that has a lagoon in the living room, hosts visiting strangers in the middle of the night, and is mysteriously close to the spirit world.

Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.

Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.

An eccentric Upper East Side family loses all their money and their penthouse and seeks refuge in Central park, in a picture book for grown-ups.

Discusses scientists throughout history who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind, including a zoologist who ate slug soup and a Nobel Prize-winning surgeon who put a catheter into his own heart.

Explores a variety of odd and eccentric people throughout history.