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![]() ![]() They’re trying to hide it by repeatedly telling Portico to go check on a neighbor “in the meantime.” But Portico knows “meantime” means his parents are heading into the Mean Time which means they’re about to get into it, and well, Portico’s superhero responsibility is to save them, too-as soon as he figures out how. ![]() In fact, he’s the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.Īll this is swell except for Portico’s other secret, his not-so-super secret. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. ![]() His mom calls where they live an apartment building. ![]() He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy!īut his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. Portico Reeves’s superpower is making sure all the other superheroes-like his parents and two best friends-stay super. A Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Gradeįrom Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you’ve never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third! ![]() ![]() ![]() Being on the other end of a bully gives Kevin a whole new perspective. Things go sour when Robin gets ahold of his notebook and starts to blackmail him. Kevin takes the text from books like The Wind in the Willow, Wizard of Oz and White Fang and reorders them with some added text to make his hilarious poems. Kevin's acting out takes many forms picking on classmates, writing haiku's in a notebook, and ripping pages out of "old library books that no one reads anymore anyways," to create found poems that mock the teachers at school. So it's on this first day of seventh grade that Kevin seeks out his "first prey." Giant John, Freckle-Face Kelly and Robin seem like the most likely candidates this year. Kevin identifies himself as the "accident" in the family, which really frustrates him and he ends up looking for some attention, even if it's negative attention. Plus, he's still mad at him over the tornado incident. Truth is, Kevin's parents are always gone and even his brother Petey, who is the closest to him in age, is more interested in his band and girls. Everyone thinks that means that they are rich, he gets everything he wants and they have a life like that doctor Cliff Huxtable on T.V. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kevin is the youngest of five boys with both his parents being doctors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Several days later, Darren develops an obsession for Madam Octa, and returns to the theatre to steal her, using his knowledge of Mr. Unbeknownst to Steve, Darren has been hiding in the theatre, witnessing the confrontation and becoming wary of Steve. Steve is miserable, and declares revenge on Mr. The vampire refuses Steve upon tasting his blood, and declares his blood “evil”. He demands to become a vampire too, and join the circus as Mr. ![]() Crepsley and his giant spider Madam Octa.Īfter the show, Steve sneaks back into the theatre and confronts Mr. Darren and Steve are mesmerized by the fantastic and disturbing show, especially by the act of the mysterious Mr. Although four boys wanted to go, each flyer is eligible only for the purchase of two tickets, and after each of them draws a piece of paper, which Steve secretly put the extra ticket in, Darren is the winner. His best friend, Steve "Leopard" Leonard, has grown up reading horror comics and stories of the Wolfman and vampires.One day, a friend of theirs discovers a flyer advertising the "Cirque Du Freak", a traveling freak show. Young Darren Shan has been fascinated by spiders from an early age. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() in 1967, convinced that the military strategy was doomed to fail and increasingly disenchanted with the war. He saw villages that had been burned because Viet Cong had slept there for a night. State Department, getting a first-hand look at the war. In his book-lined living room, Ellsberg reprised the story of how he became, as Henry Kissinger once put it, “the most dangerous man in America.” During the mid-1960s, Ellsberg, a former Marine Corps officer with a PhD in economics from Harvard, was in Vietnam, working for the U.S. The White House “plumbers” (so named because they were formed to plug leaks, or create them) were after Ellsberg’s file, hoping to find information to be used against him. Howard Hunt broke into the office and crowbarred open the drawers. On September 3, 1971, three men led by former CIA agent E. ![]() ![]() The cabinet once stood in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg’s psychoanalyst. In particular, I was inquiring about a battered but otherwise seemingly ordinary four-drawer file cabinet, which sits today at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH). Recently, I met with Daniel Ellsberg, now 81, at his house in the hills above Berkeley, California, to get the ultimate insider’s inside account of exposing deception by successive administrations about Vietnam, from the man who is arguably the nation’s most important whistleblower. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although it certainly develops from that point on and does get “darker”. The first half is a little slow going, and while reading it, I was disappointed that it wasn’t as “dark” as I was led to believe it would be. ![]() It wasn’t until about halfway through that I realized it was going to be better than I anticipated, and until that point, I wasn’t really a fan. Though I’ll admit, even while reading it, I had my doubts. Overall, I’ve found this to be quite a complex work of fiction with more literary merit than I feel it’s credited with. I also want to mention that this is one of those books which I’ve thought more favorably of since reading it as I seem to like it a little bit more everytime I think of it now. But maybe that’s why I had such a good experience with it. Going into this, I didn’t expect much from it. ![]() ![]() But if you delve a bit deeper into this novel, you’ll find a cast of complex and fully-developed characters, an example of mob-mentality in a frighteningly real setting, and essentially the death of free will and individualism. Most would say this is simply a story about a chocolate sale. ![]() ![]() ![]() His parentage put him in two different worlds, a poorer world where he struggled and then, when his dad found him, the world of the wealthy. And he’s not just the caretaker, he’s also the owner. Noah is grumpy and kind of a dick in general. It’s obvious from the start that Noah, the caretaker, doesn’t like her, but she figures she can avoid him for the time she’s going to be there. Jenny Dawson enjoys her career as a country singer sweetheart, but when the media starts calling her a homewrecker based on the lies of another country star, she goes into hiding at an old house in Louisiana that she remembered from her childhood as a musical retreat. For a full synopsis, see this book’s Goodreads page. While hiding out from the media, a country singer falls for an attractive caretaker, not knowing he’s actually the owner of her hideaway. I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I’m always excited for a Lauren Layne novel, and though this one felt a little different from her previous work, it was still enjoyable. I’d been reading a lot of hype about Good Girl since I follow the author on several different venues. ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Kayla regularly attends conventions to promote her work and meet other artists. She is the creator of Creep, a web comic series about a boy who gains weird superhero-like powers. ![]() Will the two be able to patch things up before the final lights out? Look for more of Olive's adventures in Click! AGES: 10 to 12 AUTHOR: Kayla Miller is an illustrator and cartoonist with a BFA from the University of Arts in Philadelphia. the girls aren't just fighting, they may not even be friends by the time camp is over. It's s'more than Olive can handle! The stress of being Willow's living security blanket begins to wear on Olive and before long. ![]() Olive and Willow are happy campers! Or are they? Olive is sure she'll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows Olive. Raina Telgemeier and Frazzled fans, rejoice! Author-illustrator Kayla Miller is back with Olive in this emotional and honest story about navigating new experiences, learning to step outside one's comfort zone, and the satisfaction of blazing your own trails. ![]() ![]() But one thing is for sure, she's not confused about who she is. Who will be there for her when things unravel? Who will bring her back to life after another round of heartache and betrayal? These remain a mystery-even to Abbey. As always, though, nothing goes according to plan. Readers of all ages will absolutely love this book.Lesla Newman, author of The Reluctant Daughter and Heather Has Two Mommies It’s not easy to write humorously about lesbian adolescence. Her to-do list: get her driver's license, come out to her mom, get (and keep) a girlfriend), and survive another year of basketball. Annameekee Hesik has created smart, sassy, sweaty, sexy characters who tore down the basketball court and leaped into my heart. Language eng Summary "Abbey Brooks has recovered from her end-of-freshman-year heartbreak and has vowed that this year, her sophomore year at Gila High, will be different in every way. Adolescentes lesbiennes - Romans, nouvelles, etc. ![]() Écoles secondaires - Romans, nouvelles, etc.Joueuses de basket-ball - Romans, nouvelles, etc. ![]() ![]() Label Driving lessons Title Driving lessons Statement of responsibility by Annameekee Hesik Creator ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her Demon Hunting Soccer Mom series (as Julie Kenner) is currently in development as a television show. ![]() ![]() JK has been praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations” and by RT Bookclub for having “cornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swoon for them.” A six time finalist for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award, JK took home the first RITA trophy awarded in the category of erotic romance in 2014 for her novel, Claim Me (book 2 of her Stark Trilogy) and in 2017 for Wicked Dirty in the same category. Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, “chicklit” suspense, urban fantasy, and paranormal mommy lit. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and #1 International bestselling author of over one hundred novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres. ![]() |