Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Emily The Strange – Stranger and Stranger
HarperCollins, 2010
Fantasy
ISBN: 0061452327
272 pages
Synopsis
Emily is working on a new invention, a machine that duplicates people in order to pull off the greatest prank ever in her current dull town. However, it’s time to pick up and move, yet again. She spends most of her time procrastinating, but eventually gets packed. In the new town, she again resumes the quest for the new invention and the greatest prank ever, but ends up only duplicating herself before breaking the machine. Can the world possibly handle two Emilys? …
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Amulet, 2009
Fiction, Graphic Novel
ISBN: 0810983915
224 pages
Synopsis
It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn. …
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Becoming Billie Holiday
Wordsong, 2008
Poetry
ISBN: 159078507X
117 pages
Synopsis
A series of fictionalized poems, chronicling the life of Billie Holiday from birth until 25, this text provides an interesting insight into the life and rhythm of one of the greatest jazz performers throughout history. The poems themselves are more like stories broken into poetic line than writing that follow the typical constraints of poetry. Each of the poems is titled after one of Holiday’s songs, bringing a depth into the story of the song, possibly where it came from. Also, the text is, in places, accompanied by beautiful artwork that enhances the experience. …
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Emily The Strange: The Lost Days
HarperCollins, 2009
Fantasy
ISBN: 0061452297
264 pages
Synopsis
Sitting on a park bench in a strange town called Blackrock, Emily has no recollection of who she is and why she’s there. This little town is so odd. There is only one tree, and everything has been painted beige. Realizing that she must have amnesia for some inexplicable reason, Emily begins a journey to regain her identity. However, she quickly realizes that there’s more to this situation than first meets the eye, even though she can’t seem to quite put her finger on exactly why. Now, she must try to regain her memory and discern why this town is so odd because it must have something to do with why she’s there in the first place. She relays the whole story through a personal diary, complete with Polaroid’s, illustrations, lists, and descriptions of all the events that take place. …
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Amulet Books, 2008
Fiction, Graphic Novel
ISBN: 0810994739
224 pages
Synopsis
Greg’s school year is winding down and so is his journal; however, he seems to live the same way and make the same sorts of self-centered choices that have a tendency to get him in trouble throughout the previous three books. This graphic-novel style story chronicles the life of middle-schooler Greg Heffley as told by Greg through hand-written words and pictures in his diary. …
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The Arrival
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007
Graphic Novel – Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0439895294
128 pages
Synopsis
A story told solely through breathtaking art, Tan paints an imaginatory tale of an immigrant who leaves his family in a dangerous country in order to find work in a new place and save money to bring his family there. …
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The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007
Fiction
ISBN-10: 0316013684
240 pages
National Book Award Winner
Synopsis
Told from the first person narrative of Arnold Spirit, aka Junior, the story chronicles a year in his life as a Spokan Indian from Wellpinit, WA, as he bravely decides to go to a high school outside of the reservation in a neighboring White town. Forced to overcome his insecurities as an ethnic outsider and his handicaps and speech impediments having been born with water on the brain, Junior discovers that choosing hope and pursuing his dreams will be the most difficult thing he’s ever done. …
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