Lemony Snicket
Author
Series
Complete Peanuts volume 20
Language
English
Description
"In this volume, Peanuts celebrates its 40th birthday! Snoopy and Spike decline to compete in an ugly dog competition, entering their brother Olaf instead. Charlie Brown and Marcie spend quality time together at sleepaway camp, while Peppermint Patti simmers in summer school. Linus ramps up his Great Pumpkin proselytizing with the 'Great Pumpkin Movement'--complete with literature to pass out door to door. Marcie begins to crack under the pressure...
Language
English
Description
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off watching some other movie, " warns our narrator, Lemony Snicket. "In this movie, " he continues gravely, "not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle." This is the story of the Baudelaire children -- three "clever and reasonably attractive orphans" -- who embark on a shaky adventure after their home burns down, killing...
Author
Series
(Charles Monroe),Complete Peanuts volume 20
Language
English
Description
"In The Complete Peanuts: 1989-1990 Snoopy's brother Olaf comes to visit and wins the "Ugly Dog" contest, Pigpen runs for class president, and Charlie Brown gets a girlfriend!"--
Series
Guys read volume 7
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of humorous stories featuring an array of characters with and without capes.
Heroes and Villains, the seventh volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, is chock-full of adventure featuring an array of characters--with and without capes. Featuring ten all-new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to comics to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, and featuring eleven of the most acclaimed, exciting...
Language
English
Description
In the basement of a small publishing house in San Francisco, fourteen high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and many other things. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together these high schoolers selected the contents of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014, a collection in which you can take a...