Author: Aileen Paterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907448150
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Clementine Beauvais
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500651701
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A whimsical story about childhood imagination and the freedom to be oneself. Parents always tell their children to go play with other children on the playground. When the mother in Hello, Monster! tells her son to join another boy in the sandbox while he is happily playing by himself, he rebels. His mother never talks to strangers, and what if the other boy is a monster disguised as a child that will trap him in his underground kingdom with all the other children who cook his meals and look after his pet moles? The boy hatches a plan for all of them to escape, but when they do, they encounter a black panther. Luckily, the panther prefers to eat monsters over children, and after his dinner, he tells the children stories of the jungle until five in the morning. The children watch the sun rise as they return home to their worried parents, who feel guilty and let them stay home and eat cake all day, never telling them to “go play with that boy” ever again. With lively and whimsical illustrations, Hello, Monster! is a creative story about respect for the imagination, solitude, and children’s inner worlds.

Author: Henry James
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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After her parents� bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie � solitary, observant and wise beyond her years � is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. What Maisie Knew is a subtle yet devastating portrayal of an innocent adrift in a corrupt society. Part of a relaunch of three James titles.

Author: Alyssa Sheinmel
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 191065535X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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When Maisie is struck by lightning, her face is partially destroyed. She's lucky enough to get a face transplant, but how do you live your life when you can't even recognize yourself any more? She was a runner, a girlfriend, a good student ... a normal girl. Now, after a single freak accident, all that has changed. As Maisie discovers how much her looks did and didn't shape her relationship to the world, she has to redefine her own identity, and figure out what 'lucky' really means.

Author: Anthony Tuck
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1627873082
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Professor Winslop's lessons on mythology are the worst. But are his stories really just myths? When Maisie and her twin brother Jasper discover a Stonehenge-like monument in the woods of New Hampshire, they find themselves caught in the middle of something much darker and more dangerous than they ever imagined. Shamans, intent on bringing about a world-wide apocalypse, are planning to break through the veil between reality and myth, and the twins are the only ones capable of finding the weapon to stop them. With only days before the Winter Solstice, will Maisie and Jasper be able to stop the rising tide of evil? Reminiscent of Escape to Witch Mountain, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Wizard of Oz,The Stone Circle will entrance and bewitch readers through to its final climax.

Author: Holly Webb
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544339282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle chase.

Author: Dina Khapaeva
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787695298
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of attitudes toward people, monsters, and death.

Author: Aileen Paterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Picture books for children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: M. Chan
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781684644995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"It's Lunar New Year and Jack is excitied to celebrate and watch the traditional lion dance. But in the Jade Kingdom, the mythical New Year beast is real--and really dangerous! Jack can't help feeling scared to battle the creature that haunts his nightmares. Can he face his fears and save the Jade Kingdom?"--Back cover.

Author: A. Schaffner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137030305
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known figures of the period such as Dujardin and Jahnn.