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1) Wonder
Author
Language
English
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All Together Now—Middle Grade
Battle of the Books Grades 5-6
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.)
6) Wonder
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the New York best seller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Author
Series
Contraseñas ilustradas volume 8
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"En La melancólica muerte de Chico Ostra, Tim Burton nos ofrece una asombrosa galería de niños solitarios, extraños y diferentes, excluidos de todos y próximos a nosotros, que nos van a horrorizar y enternecer, a emocionarnos y hacernos reír."--
A bizarre menagerie of characters--including Oyster Boy, Brie Boy, Match Girl, and Stick Boy--search for love and understanding in a world that does not comprehend oddities.
Author
Publisher
Singing Dragon, an imprint of Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Containing illustrated exercises and exemplary case studies, this straightforward manual shows how to address the physical and emotional factors of scoliosis. Each exercise is explained step-by step, and no technical knowledge or prior experience of yoga is required. Foundational anatomy is carefully explained for a better understanding of the relationship between scoliosis and your body. This book will help you on the path to alleviating your back...
Author
Series
Silent gods volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
You've heard the story before: an orphaned boy, raised by a wise old man, comes to a fuller knowledge of his magic and uses it to fight the great evil threatening his world. But what if that hero were destined to become the new dark lord? The Academy of Chaenbalu has stood against magic for centuries. Hidden from the world, acting from the shadows, it trains its students to detect and retrieve magic artifacts, which it jealously guards from the misuse...
13) A woman's face
Series
Joan Crawford collection volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A woman emotionally scarred as well as physically scarred has a chance to a new life after miraculous plastic surgery. Can she put her life of crime and blackmail behind her?
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
15) The Bees
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to fee the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying...
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 491
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
17) Water in May
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pregnant at fifteen, Mari Pujols believes the baby will supply the family love she yearns for but when she learns the fetus has a heart defect, her friends, sometimes boyfriend, and doctor are there for her.
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Eliana is a model citizen of the island, a weaver in the prestigious House of Webs. She also harbors a dangerous secret-- she can dream, an ability forbidden by the island's elusive council of elders. No one talks about the dreamers, the undesirables ostracized from society. But the web of protection Eliana has woven around herself begins to unravel when a young girl is found lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the stones outside the house. Robbed...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While in heaven reviewing her short life with the help of the Assembler of Parts, eight-year-old Jess, born with several birth defects, discovers the true purpose of her life after her death unleashes events beyond her control.
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