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(0)David Homel
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Language
English
Description
In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define his life for years to come.
Today, planning to stay in the game as long as possible, he has a few ideas about how to do just that. By confronting body image issues, performance anxiety, and the challenges...
Author
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in mediations on his youth, his education, and the influences that led to his writing career.
Award-winning author mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in mediations on his youth, his education, and the influences that led to his writing career.
Award-winning author mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in mediations on his youth, his education, and the...
3) Ciel
Author
Series
Ciel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ciel, a gender non-conforming transgender kid with a popular YouTube channel, navigates high school, friendship, and a long-distance relationship. A book for middle graders about a trans character that doesn't focus on the character's transition, or dwell exclusively on negative aspects of being trans."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Travels with my family volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie is doubtful of his parents' plan not to travel and have a summer "staycation," but soon realizes his hometown of Montreal, Canada, is very exciting.
Author
Series
Travels with my family volume 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a rough roller-coaster airplane ride, Charlie and his family finally arrive on a sunny green island floating in the sea: Cuba! But the place they discover is a far cry from the all inclusive resorts that Charlie's friends have talked about. Charlie has never been to a country as puzzling as Cuba--a country where he feels like he's traveled back in time. Where Havana's grand Hotel Nacional sits next to buildings that seem to be crumbling before...
Author
Series
Travels with my family volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy tells the adventures of his family's summer vacations as his parents choose unusual places to visit.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy's father works for the South Vietnam embassy; there the boy is made to feel self-conscious about his otherness thanks to schoolmates who play war games against the so-called "Commies." The family is...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of Turing and his colleagues at Hut 8 created what became known as the "bombe", which descrambled the German navy's messages and saved countless lives and millions in British goods and merchandise. Despite his heroics, however,...
Author
Language
English
Description
François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics. Cusset presents the foundations and rationale for American queer theory, the field of study established in the 1990s and promulgated by writers and scholars such as Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky...
Author
Series
Travels with my family volume 1
Language
English
Description
Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition - by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while...
Author
Series
Travels with my family volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to Travels With My Family, the family is on the road again -- this time to spend a year in a tiny village in southern France. They experiences the spring migration of sheep up to the mountain pastures, the annual running of the bulls (in which Charlie's father is trapped in a phone booth by a raging bull), and other adventures large and small. Most of all, though, Charlie and his little brother, Max, grow fond of their new neighbors...
