A pun-filled week at Harvey N. Trouble School is hilarious. Every morning, Ron Faster sprints to the road and boards the school bus. Given that the driver is Ivan Stuckinaditch, the bus promptly become stuck in...guess what...a ditch. Ron and the other kids, Viola Fuss, Izzy Normal and so on, get to school late. The principal, Miss Ingashoe, moves slowly because she's "missing something." Chuckie Upkins is always running to the bathroom, and Oopsie Spiller causes the daily resignations of Janitor Iquit and Assistant Janitor Quitoo. Over and over and over. The pattern changes on Friday... what a week! Booth's great cartoon illustrations add whimsy and pure fun to every page,
Based on the book "The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud," Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting story of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death. By day Charlie tends the lawns and monuments of the ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. Graced with an extraordinary gift after surviving the accident, he can still see, talk, and even play catch with Sam’s spirit. Into his carefully ordered life comes Tess Carroll, a captivating, adventuresome woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that blows her back to harbor, to a charged encounter with Charlie, and to a surprise more overwhelming than the violent sea itself. Charlie and Tess discover a beautiful and uncommon connection that leads to a race against time and a desperate choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go.
Selznick's "novel in words and pictures," is a unique and amazingly good book!. It is an intriguing mystery set in 1930s Paris about an orphan, a salvaged clockwork invention, and a celebrated filmmaker. This illustrated novel is somewhat similar to a graphic novel, but experiencing its mix of silvery pencil drawings and narrative interludes is ultimately more like watching a silent film. This picture novel has over 150 double-page illustrations that are integral to the story. Most are detailed drawings, but a few are photographs from the early days of motion pictures. This historical novel centers on Hugo, a young boy on his own in the Paris train station after his father dies in a museum fire, and his uncle, the caretaker of the station clocks disappears. In his room in the walls of the station, Hugo is repairing a mechanical man using his father's detailed drawings; the parts he steals from the toymaker's booth. But, the old man catches him stealing and Hugo is forced to give up the notebook and to work in the booth to pay for what he stole. The old man's granddaughter, Isabelle, holds the key to bringing the automaton to life as the bitter old man was once much more than an unhappy toymaker. Although Hugo and Isabelle are fictional characters, the old man is based on Georges Melies, whose automatons were indeed left in a museum attic.
Through a "JOURNAL, not a diary" Greg Heffley tells you all about his first year of middle school with his journal entries and simple cartoon illustrations. Mishaps and misadventures seem to plague Greg at every turn from the minor freak outs of finding himself sitting between two morons, being a "skin" in gym class, and having a friend who wants to show him his "secret freckle." He struggles to be a good friend and a good son. He also wants to be on top of the popularity list; which is hard to climb up when you have nerdy friends, involved parents and two siblings who aren't very helpful.
This first of nine volumes, Out of Boneville, begins with greedy Phoney Bone being run out of Boneville for cheating and his cousins, Fone and Smiley, join him. The three blobby creatures get seperated and stumble into a valley full of monsters, magic, farmers, an amazing girl and a huge dragon. Fone makes friends with a country girl, her no-nonsense gran'ma and some possums. Phoney must contend with ferocious rat creatures who are led by the mysterious "hooded one" and who wants his soul. Smiley is working his bill off a bar in Barrelhaven. All keep looking for each other and want to get back to their normal life.
This book begins in 1838 with Charles Darwin drawing a line down a sheet of paper and listing the reasons to marry or not marry. After much thought Darwin decided to marry, and marries his cousin Emma, January 29, 1839, and they begin their life together. One major difference between Charles and his wife were their religious views. Emma was deeply religious and worried much about Charles in the afterlife. Charles believed that the world was constantly changing and did not believe in the theory that God created the world all at once. Yet despite those differing views, the two of them loved each deeply and respected each other much. This is the story of the man behind the theory of Evolution- all his hopes, dreams, doubts, worries, the good and the bad- a very extraordinary man, who had a very extraordinary women by his side.
