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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.
We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous but in fact understandable processes by which poets and writers confer those powers on us: how they teach us the work of imaginative creation.
Writers from Homer to Heaney, Scarry...
3) Let's play!
Author
Publisher
Handprint Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Description
A lively yellow dot leads the reader through a journey through color, shape, and a child's imagination.
Author
Series
Imagination box volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When orphan Timothy finds a box that can make the things from his imagination become real, he tries to protect it from leaving the hotel where he lives and relies on the help of a professor, his friend, and a finger monkey.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Description
"While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be." --
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Description
"A young boy and his father use their imaginations before bedtime to transform an ordinary laundry basket into a variety of transportation vehicles"--
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 5
Formats
Description
Jessamine Brady loves her Shaker sisters and brothers, but can't stop imagining life and love in the outside world.
Author
Series
Jack Blank adventures volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
468 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite the virus he carries that makes him a threat.
10) Crystal keepers
Author
Series
Five kingdoms volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
Journeying in a magical region where he continues his search for his friends and works to correct magical imbalances in The Outskirts, Cole confronts challenges that threaten to trap him in the world between reality and imagination.
12) Worlds apart
Author
Series
Story thieves volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
481 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
After Nobody destroys the connection between fictional and nonfictional worlds, causing nonfictional people to lose their imaginations, Owen and Bethany must risk everything to save multiple realities.
13) Imagine me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 6
Formats
Description
"Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong -- between Ella and Juliette -- blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control. The day of reckoning...
14) Without Tess
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Cohen recalls what it was like growing up with her imaginative but disturbed older sister Tess, and how she is striving to reclaim her own life since Tess died.
15) Jinx
Author
Series
Jinx trilogy (Sage Blackwood) volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A young boy named Jinx encounters magic and danger as he grows up in the deep, dark forest known as the Urwald and discovers that the world beyond--and within--the Urwald is more complex than he could imagine.
Author
Formats
Description
An examination of the new science of creativity explains how it involves distinct thought processes that can be tapped by anyone, revealing the practices of successful companies and creative individuals while considering how to use scientific principles to increase creativity.
17) Mommy's khimar
Author
Formats
Description
A young Muslim girl puts on a head scarf and not only feels closer to her mother, she also imagines herself as a queen, the sun, a superhero, and more.
Author
Series
Imagination box volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A ten-year-old orphan discovers a box that can make the things he imagines become real and must keep the contraption from getting into the wrong hands with the help of a professor, his granddaughter, and a well-versed finger monkey"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
"Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after...
Author
Series
This woven kingdom volume 1
Description
"To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can't put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world"--
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