Coraline is a young girl bored with the quiet life in her family’s new house. Unable to spark any interaction with her mother and father (or three other adults in her building), she explores her surroundings until stumbling into a parallel world hidden behind a locked door down the hall. From Lewis Carroll’s Through the [...]
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Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
Posted in youth fiction, tagged hidden worlds, horror, youth fiction on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney)
Posted in humor, youth fiction, tagged drawings, humor, stories, youth fiction on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
QUICK TAKE: It’s not easy being a middle school kid. Just ask Gregory Heffley, the narrator in Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: A Novel in Cartoons. The boy who figures he’s “somewhere around 52nd and 53rd most popular” in school relates an entire year of fun and mishaps in his journal. Using simple [...]
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