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2) Little bear
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1957]
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Little Bear, and Mother Bear, who is there whenever Little Bear needs her. When it is cold and snowy outside, she finds just the right outfit for Little Bear to play in. When he goes to the moon, she has a hot lunch waiting for him on his return. At night she helps him get to sleep. And, of course, she never forgets his birthday.
Author
Series
Publisher
E. P. Dutton
Pub. Date
c1978
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
437 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving-now in a limited 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author. The opening sentence of John Irving's breakout novel, The World According to Garp, signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater." Jenny is an unmarried nurse; she becomes a single...
Author
Series
Charlie 'Bird' Parker novels volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
571 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
385 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
223 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
10) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
11) Calamity Jack
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
144 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel interpretation of "Jack and the beanstalk," Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.
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