David Small
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"There were just a few signs that Imogene was different. First, there were the antlers growing from her head -- a spectacle that her mother could not bear. Then came the peacock's tail, the long neck, and ... oh dear, what will Mother say to that? Thirty-five years after David Small brought the inimitable Imogene to life, she's back -- with a new set of features that kids everywhere will see for what they really are : the things that make you utterly,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His internationally acclaimed graphic memoir, Stitches, told the story of a childhood in disarray. Werewolf at Dusk, appearing nearly fifteen years later, turned its attention to the twilight of life and to aging, gracefully or otherwise. Eerily striking and mesmerizing, the three stories in this collection...
3) The library
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
7) Stitches
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
11) That Book woman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
17) The gardener
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
18) Fenwick's suit
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fenwick buys a new suit which comes to life and starts to take over everything.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic. Three hundred years ago, a great deal of the world as we now know it was still undiscovered. A voyage in those days was not a pleasant thing, and a traveller was likely to encounter mysterious islands and strange people. Danger lurked around every corner, and friends and foes are to be found unexpectedly, and in equal measure. When Lemeul Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, sets off on the high seas in...