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61) The vile village
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
62) Cats' night out
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Cats dance the night away out on the town, doing the tango, rumba, twist, fox trot, and more.
63) Around town
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A tour of Legoville features the different jobs that vehicles and people do during a typical day.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The death of her mother brings writer Annie Barnes back to the New Hampshire mill town of her youth to investigate the pollution caused by the local paper mill, a contamination that may have been the cause of her mother's fatal illness.
Author
Series
Big chickens books volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Description
Having inadvertently traveled to the big city, four chickens are frightened by the strange noises, strange food, and strange animals they encounter.
70) Ulysses
Author
Formats
Description
Ulysses draws upon a complex network of symbolic parallels from mythology, history, and literature (including a framework and episodes that echo the Odyssey) to document an ordinary day in the lives of three Dubliners. Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses entered the world in a firestorm of controversy. Denounced as obscure, unintelligible, nonsensical, and obscene, it was first published in Paris in 1922...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
87 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Rapunzel and her chameleon, Pascal, escape from the castle on her birthday and visit the nearby town with their friend Flynn Rider and Maximus the guard horse, where she meets a real artist, Roberto, who helps her with her painting.
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Widower Duane Moore returns to west Texas, where he finds the family oil business significantly altered by new personnel, evolving family dynamics, and his own perspective changes.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
Description
The text of the familiar psalm comparing God to a loving shepherd accompanies illustrations which shows the world of love and fear faced by an urban African-American family.
Author
Description
"With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Spanning the years 1916 to 1987, the lives of sisters Idella and Avis Hillock are described in a series of vignettes, opening with an account of their mother's death in childbirth and closing with Idella's husband, Eddie, now an old man, reminiscing about his life with Idella. Set in the rough landscape of New Brunswick, Canada.
80) Matteo
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
When eleven-year-old Matteo literally sprouts leaves and grows bark during one of his baseball games, he digs into his family tree to find out what it all means.
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