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26 Fairmount Avenue book.War years volume 8
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From gas rationing to air-raid drills, as long as the war lasts, life is going to be different for Tomie. And sometimes different is hard. Fortunately, Tomie still has school, his family, and the things he's good at to carry him through.
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245 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Hola, me llamo Andy. Este de aquí es mi amigo Terry. Vivimos juntos en un árbol. Bueno, cuando digo "un árbol" me refiero a una casa en el árbol. Y cuando digo "una casa en el árbol" no me refiero a la típica casucha hecha con cuatro tablones, ¡sino a una casa en el árbol de 13 pisos! Tenemos una pista de bolos, una piscina transparente,un estanque lleno de tiburones asesinos, lianas de las que colgarse, un cuarto de juegos, un laboratorio...
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276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinarily moving memoir from an iconoclastic new talent--an artist, cook, and New York Times illustrator whose adventures at home and abroad revealed the importance of living life with your eyes wide open. Best known for her witty, sparse illustrations, and as a cook beside her mischievous father in her family's iconic Manhattan restaurant, in Mumbai New York Scranton, Tamara Shopsin chronicles a year in her life when impermanence was the...
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189 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adulting meets Hyperbole and a Half in this witty, starkly honest, and absolutely on-point book of essays and illustrations on the realities of growing up and finding yourself. Mari Andrew started doodling when she worked at a bakery--she took some license with the display case labels. When customers noticed and began telling her the drawings brightened their days, Mari realized she could use that hobby to connect with people. She hit a professional...
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270 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
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English
Description
"A children's song inspires a love of Greek mythology in a young girl. A young woman finds a career in archeology and illustration. A young mother sees her daughter become a woman, as her own mother's memories are lost. Persephone's Garden is a deeply personal story and an inventive study of girlhood, womanhood and motherhood, through memory, history and mythology."--Amazon.
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes his boyhood summers spent at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem where she introduced him to the sounds and steps of the merengue and the conga and told him stories of Puerto Rico.
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Treehouse books volume 6
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375 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andy and Terry must get past their differences to save their story ideas from a herd of spy cows.
Author
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226 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of...
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100 pages : black and white illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and civil rights activist, who was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.
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Series
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography, with black-and-white illustrations throughout, brings an amazingly gifted author/illustrator to life.
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Treehouse books volume 09
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 117-story treehouse. (It used to be a 104-story treehouse, but it just keeps growing!) It now has a pajama-party room, a water-ski park filled with flesh-eating piranhas, an Underpants Museum, a giant-fighting-robot arena, and the Door of Doom (don't open it or you'll be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY DOOMED!). For as long as Andy and Terry have been writing books together, Andy has always been the narrator and Terry has always...
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Treehouse books volume 1
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (1 hr., 37 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Andy and Terry live in a treehouse. But it's not just any old treehouse, it's the most amazing treehouse in the world! This treehouse has thirteen stories, a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a secret underground laboratory, and a marshmallow machine that follows them around and automatically shoots marshmallows into their mouths whenever they are hungry. Life would be perfect for Andy and Terry if it wasn't for the fact that they have to...
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