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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A gay Jewish man has just been elected president of the United States -- or so it seems, until the governor of Kansas decides that some election results in his state are invalid and awards crucial votes to the other candidate, his fellow party member. Things quickly go very wrong -- and hundreds of thousands of people flock to Kansas to protest for what they believe is right and just. Among them are Jimmy and Duncan, teens who are not only fighting...
Author
Series
Fairest volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Follows the misadventures of Briar Rose immediately after the events of FABLES #107(collected in FABLES VOL. 16: SUPER TEAM), in which she was stolen away by the goblin army.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author of the Mr. Lemoncello books brings his wit and humor to a pint-sized audience in this picture book debut that turns the universal dilemma of getting kids to sleep on its head. It's time for a nap but, just like stubborn toddlers everywhere, Annalise Devin McFleece won't have anything to do with bedtime. Dad tries to encourage sleepiness by pushing her around the park in her stroller. Along the way, they pass a man sitting on a bench, dog...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Every baby bear knows the warmth of spring only comes after sleeping through the cold of winter. For little cub Elliott, however, it's not that easy. First, something tickles his nose, rousing him from a dream, and then every shadow, noise, and passing thought keeps him up. No amount of fluffing of his pillow or tossing and turning will help. He even tries nudging his mom out of her slumber! But he's Still. Wide. Awake.
Author
Series
Tales of the wide-awake princess volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Annie, younger sister of the princess who would be known as Sleeping Beauty, is immune to magic and stays awake when the rest of the castle falls into an enchanted sleep, then sets out to find a way to break the spell.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Princess Annabelle, who is immune to magic and can temporarily reverse spells put on others, encounters various fairy tale characters when she embarks on an expedition into the woods to find a dwarf responsible for turning Sleeping Beauty's prince into a bear.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes -- mostly working-class Americans in their twenties -- became...
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