Patrick Jennings Books In Order

Ike and Mem Books In Order

  1. The Ears of Corn (2003)
  2. The Bird Shadow (2001)
  3. The Tornado Watches (2002)
  4. The Weeping Willow (2002)
  5. The Lightning Bugs (2003)
  6. The Pup Tent (2007)

Guinea Dog Books In Order

  1. Guinea Dog (2010)
  2. Guinea Dog 2 (2013)
  3. Guinea Dog 3 (2014)

Petopia Books In Order

  1. The Fur Flies! (2015)

Novels

  1. Faith And The Electric Dogs (1996)
  2. Faith and the Rocket Cat (1998)
  3. Putnam and Pennyroyal (1999)
  4. The Beastly Arms (2001)
  5. The Wolving Time (2003)
  6. Out Standing in My Field (2005)
  7. Wish Riders (2006)
  8. Barb and Dingbat’s Crybaby Hotline (2007)
  9. We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes (2009)
  10. Lucky Cap (2011)
  11. Invasion of the Dognappers (2012)
  12. My Homework Ate My Homework (2013)
  13. Odd, Weird, and Little (2014)
  14. Hissy Fitz (2015)

Picture Books

  1. Bat and Rat (2012)
  2. Naughty Claudine’s Christmas (2017)

Novellas

  1. A Very Merry Guinea Dog (2013)

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Patrick Jennings Books Overview

The Ears of Corn

When Ike and his little sister Mem spend the weekend at their grandparents’ farm, they resent all the work they must do, until they realize that there is more to their visit than just doing chores, and that everyone must cooperate and pitch in if they are to get along.

The Bird Shadow

In spite of being frightened, Ike and his little sister Mem go with some friends to a spooky old house with a shed full of pigeons.

The Tornado Watches

A tired Ike stays up all night for four nights to warn his family of any approaching tornadoes.

The Weeping Willow

When Ike and his little sister Mem spend the weekend at their grandparents’ farm, they resent all the work they must do, until they realize that there is more to their visit than just doing chores.

The Lightning Bugs

Ike feels bad about not saying anything to neighborhood bully Dave when Dave insists on killing lightning bugs to separate their glowing parts from their bodies to make ‘lightning rings’ for the other children’s fingers.

Guinea Dog

Rufus has been dreaming of getting a dog. His best friend has one. His worst friend has one. But his dad has a few objections: They whine. They gnaw. They bark. They scratch. They beg. They drool.

Rufus pays no attention when his mom offers her think-outside-the-box suggestion, because she can’t be serious. She can’t be.

She can be. And she actually comes home with a guinea pig. And if Rufus’s dad thinks dogs are a problem, he won’t know what hit him when he meets the Guinea Pig that Thinks She’s a Dog. She barks. She bites. She’ll eat your homework.

Faith And The Electric Dogs

Edison is a Mexican street dog, but he’s far from ordinary. He can speak Bowwow and can understand English, Spanish, and French. When a girl named Faith rescues him, he begins a fantastic and unforgettable journey.

Putnam and Pennyroyal

When Cora Lee and her Uncle Frank go fishing, he tells her a story about Putnam, a sedate old grebe a loon like bird. Life was dull for Putnam until he met a spunky grebe named Pennyroyal.

The Beastly Arms

An accessible middle grade novel from popular author Patrick Jennings now in paperback. 11 year old Nickel moves with his mother into a mysterious apartment building called The Beastly Arms. 11 year old Nickel and his mother need to find a new apartment. When their search takes them to an unfamiliar part of the city, Nickel is drawn to a strange building at the end of an alley a building called The Beastly Arms. Even though the rent in dirt cheap and the apartment is beautiful, Nickel’s mom thinks The Beastly Arms is creepy. So does his best friend, Inez. Even his pet kangaroo rat, Miriam, seems worried. But Nickel, an avid photographer who has a gift for seeing what others don’t, senses that The Beastly Arms houses a secret that only he can unearth…

The Wolving Time

A family of werewolves faces the human evil of persecution in this tense and spellbinding novel from one of Scholastic Press’ favorite authors. Laszlo Emberek is caught between two worlds: the bucolic life of a shepherd, tending his family’s small flock of sheep with his beloved dog, Gizi, and the secret life of his parents, who can ‘change’ into wolves at will. 13 yr old Laszlo knows his change will come soon. But when his family’s secret is discovered by a village girl a ward of the evil and corrupt priest, no less Laszlo must decide how he wants to live. Can he trust himself to remain compassionately human as other, wilder instincts overcome him? And are humans truly less dangerous than the wolves they hate with such passion?

Out Standing in My Field

A funny, insightful, and poignant story about a Little League loser whose tyrant father is the team coach, by one of Scholastic Press’s favorite talents. Ty has been named for baseball legend Ty Cobb, but the hero of Jennings’ wonderful new novel isn’t living up to his namesake’s reputation when it comes to The Game. He loves baseball; he just isn’t great at it, despite all the efforts of his coach and father, who himself once dreamed of playing in the majors. To complicate matters, Ty’s younger sister Daisy is a baseball whiz as well as the school genius. In this sharply witty, deeply poignant all American novel, Ty has to figure out just who he’s trying to please his father, his teammates, or himself.

Wish Riders

Fifteen year old Dusty, a ward of the state, is forced to work in a logging camp during the Depression. Despite the bleakness of her life, spirited Dusty dreams of escape. One day, a mysterious seagull delivers some unusual seeds to Dusty. Her whole life changes when she plants them. Perhaps it is the strength of her wishes, or the magic of the forest, but some unknown power transforms the tiny seeds into an astonishing creature and a possible means of deliverance. Now Dusty and her friends have a way to navigate the enchanted, though dangerous, forest, and escape the wretched existence they ve been trapped in all their lives. Richly layered with fairy tale lore and steeped in both the familiar and the darker elements of the Cinderella story, Patrick Jennings’s inspired novel weaves a compelling tale about finding freedom, and finding oneself.

Barb and Dingbat’s Crybaby Hotline

B: Hello, is this Jeff? J: Yeah, Who’s this? B: It’s not important. I’m just a messenger. I’ve been asked to inform you that Viv doesn’t want to go with you anymore. At all. Welcome to Barb and Dingbat’s Crybaby Hotline. Jeff can hardly believe it when he gets the second-hand news that his girlfriend is dropping him. And what’s with Barb anyway-why does she keep calling him, and why does he get the feeling she’s not telling him the whole truth? Much like Barb, this warm and clever novel written entirely in phone calls has more than a few tricks up its sleeve.

We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes

I am a snake. No, not a rattlesnake. I just look like one. I’m a gopher snake. One day an oily, filthy, fleshy human child crossed my path. As luck would have it, he knew the difference between a gopher snake and a rattlesnake. He has imprisoned me in a terrarium. His name is Gunnar. He calls me Crusher. He thinks I’m male. I’m not. He dropped in a dead mouse and hoped I’d eat it. I buried it. He then dropped in a live one, which he called ‘Breakfast.’ I didn’t lay a coil on it. Gunnar thinks I’ll be his adoring pet. He’s wrong. In fact, I am planning my escape. I may take Breakfast with me. Crusher will charm readers in this entertaining, clever novel about a snake in captivity and how she turns the tables on her human captor.

Lucky Cap

The summer before Enzo enters the 6th grade, his dad takes a job with a company cooler than Nike, Timberland, and Marc Ecko. Even better, he gets to spend the summer traveling with his father and the CEO/designer/head of the company, a cross between Steve Jobs and Lance Armstrong. Working out all Summer, meeting new people, and growing up makes him come back a different kid more confident and self assured. But when all the other kids, especially the girls, start paying attention and treating him differently, he ascribes it all to his cool prototype Lucky Cap. Flirted with, more popular, invited onto the sports teams it’s all thanks to his Lucky Cap. And when it disappears, Enzo stops at nothing to get it back, so he won’t lose his new found status, only to sabotage himself.

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