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Check out this great graphic novel, based in Michigan! The year is 1908, and a troupe of vaudeville performers has arrived in sleepy Muskegon, Michigan to spend the summer. Young Henry Harrison is fascinated with the animals and performers, but mostly with a slapstick performer his own age named Buster Keaton, who is also a master prankster and loves to play baseball….
The Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit have never known anything outside of the volcanic pit where they were discarded when they were born. No Brother exits the pit until his “Leaving Day”, or 16th birthday. When a Brother unexpectedly returns to the pit after years away, trouble follows and several of the Brothers find themselves being forced to leave the Pit before their time. …
Silly is used to being left out. Her three older sisters always think she’s too little. This summer is different. This summer they bring her into their secret world. Soon the four sisters learn they must rely on each other, plus a bit of magic, to save their family. A story filled with fairy tale adventures recommended for ages 8 to 12….
The first half of this book tells a story only in images, while the second half uses text to create a full image of these two tales that mysteriously intersect in ways that mesmerize the reader. In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to find a brilliant family of actors that flourishes in London until 1900,…
Young Ella’s merchant father remarries after the death of her mother. Ella welcomes her new stepmother and her daughters into the family home. But, when Ella’s father unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother’s dying words and to ‘have courage and be kind.’ …
