Akpan, Uwem.
Summary: These stories are told from the viewpoints of the children of Africa. Akpan's ability to capture a child's imagination and his skillful portrayal of the situation they endure is nothing short of transcendent. His stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AKPSummary: Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GRIRubin, Adam
Summary: "Reader, be advised that the events in this book may tickle your funny bone: A boy and his robot nanny travel the globe in search of the world's tastiest treat. A girl and her sister compete in an ice cream eating contest--against an honest-to-goodness pig. A child prodigy invents a new way to create the freshest dessert ever. And we should probably mention the evil ice cream seller terrorizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RUBPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Brings together Poe's stories and poems in one volume.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 POE1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 POE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818 POEPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: An illustrated collection of stories by the well-known horror author, including "The Gold Bug," "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books of Wonder 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POEPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: With these stories, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Hop Frog, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Poe's title of Master of Terror is solidified.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1981
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC POESummary: Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redfines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COOSummary: "A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BovalinoRubin, Adam
Summary: "Here are six thrilling stories--ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to adventure--set in six different worlds, featuring artwork from six different illustrators."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUBHaslett, Adam.
Summary: A collection of short stories features characters confronting the concerns of both classic literature and contemporary life, from an aging inventor who visits his gay son to an orphaned boy who finds solace in a classmate's violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASSummary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023