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1) Wonder
Author
Language
English
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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.)
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
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...
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.
9) 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
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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Wonder tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, whose first year at Beecher Prep school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him. Auggie & Me is a new side to the Wonder story: three new chapters from three different characters-- Julian the bully ; Auggie's oldest friend Christopher ; and, classmate Charlotte, his new friend at school. Thought-provoking, surprising, infuriating,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities, 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.
"Su cara lo hace distinto y él solo quiere ser uno más. Camina siempre mirando al suelo, la cabeza gacha y el flequillo tratando en vano de esconder su rostro, pero, aun así, es objeto de miradas furtivas, susurros ahogados...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Moving through the world in a body that looks different than most, Jones learned on to factor "pain calculations" into every plan, every situation. She was born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, which affects both the stature and gait, and so her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as "less than." the ways she has been seen--or not seen--has informed...
16) Enclave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders maybe wrong--and dangerous.
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Born with a sealed, fist-sized hole through her torso, seventeen-year-old Morgan is tired of hiding behind thick sweaters and a smart mouth but when she bares all, the fallout brings instant celebrity and a love match, but takes away all normalcy.
Publisher
Ripley Publishing, a Jim Pattison Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From displays of the human form--both beautiful and grotesque--to tricks of illusion, and wonders from the far-off world, the sideshow has captivated audiences since its popularity arose in the Victorian Era. It was those featured on the side stages of circuses, fairground midways, and halls of exhibition that still captivate our curiosities today. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Presents Sideshow and Other Carnival Curiosities brings those performers...
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
Hungarian
Formats
Description
A circus arrives in a small village in Hungary. Instead of exotic animals and acrobats, it features jars of medical anomalies. It creates tension in the village as a shadowy figure incites violence among its inhabitants.
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