Kerascoët
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
When an energetic child inadvertently upsets one of his classmates, everyone is reminded that it is important to take responsibility for a mistake, and it is equally important to be ready to forgive. Includes information about apologies and forgiveness.
3) Jacky Ha-Ha
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Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jacky "Ha-Ha" Hart is a class clown with a penchant for pranking--and when she's required to act in the school play to appease her frustrated teachers, she must conquer her stutter"--
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Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil,...
6) Satania
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
126 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
"Charlotte - aka Charlie - a pretty redhead, sets up an expedition to find her brother. The young scientist, who disappeared underground several months ago, claimed - to everyone's astonishment - to be able to prove the existence of Hell by using Darwin's theory of evolution! The little group, led by Charlie, plunge underground in his pursuit. The deeper they progress into the entrails of our planet, the more they enter another world that hides other...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
Sophia Spencer has loved bugs ever since a butterfly landed on her shoulder--and wouldn't leave!--at a butterfly conservancy when she was only two-and-a-half years old. In preschool and kindergarten, Sophia was thrilled to share what she knew about grasshoppers (her very favorite insects), as well as ants and fireflies . . . but by first grade, not everyone shared her enthusiasm. Some students bullied her, and Sophia stopped talking about bugs altogether....
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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Paris in the thirties. The 'Butcher of the Dances' is on the prowl for young loose women. Blanche works as a maid along with the only family she knows, her sister, fun-loving Agatha. Suddenly, Blanche loses her to what she saw was murder but others only write off as suicide. She decides to take matters into her own hands. In her pursuit, she ends up hired into a luxury house of call-girls. She even becomes quite good at certain lascivious practices...
9) Beauty
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
150 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"When Coddie unintentionally delivers a fairy from a spell that held her prisoner, she does not realize how poisoned the wish is she gets in return. From repulsive and stinking of fish she becomes perceived as magnetically beautiful, which does not help her in her village. A young local lord saves her but soon it becomes apparent her destiny may be far greater"--
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
94 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
Kerascoët's and Fabien Vehlmann's unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët's delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed, and...