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4521) Cirque du Freak: 1
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak the manga volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Sammy never tattles. But what will he do when his best friend is bullied and targeted for a beatdown after school? Will Sammy save his friend by seeking help or will he be too scared to report the threat because he doesn't want to be known as the class snitch?--Publisher.
4523) Llegó la Navidad, David!
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Christmas has arrived with so many rules to follow that David fears his mistakes will cause Santa to pass him by.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
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Description
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.
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Series
Pub. Date
2005.
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Description
"The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the geologist - together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans - discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne's imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction...
4529) A small kindness
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
It was like a game of tag, with one small act of kindness spreading throughout a small community of kids and teachers alike.
4531) The ice storm
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their...