![]() ![]() Name's Ryen, loves Gallo's pizza, and worships her iPhone. Why ruin it?Until I run across a photo of a girl online. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. She's the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am.We only had three rules. Sometimes there's one a week or three in a day, but I need them. For the next seven years, it was us.Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. ![]() Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever.And that was the start. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed.It didn't take long for us to figure out the mistake. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. She misses me.In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Until we met." MishaI can't help but smile at the lyrics in her letter. From New York Times Bestselling Author, Penelope Douglas, comes the latest standalone love-hate romance."We were perfect together. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Brown goes all in to match with a grayscale palette for everything but the purple crayon-a callback to black-and-white sci-fi thrillers as much as a visual cue for nascent horror readers. Reynolds’ text might as well be a Rod Serling monologue for its perfectly paced foreboding and unsettling tension, both gentled by lightly ominous humor. As guilt-ridden Jasper receives accolade after accolade for grades and work that aren’t his, the crayon becomes more and more possessive of Jasper’s attention and affection, and it is only when Jasper cannot take it anymore that he discovers just what he’s gotten himself into. Jasper is only a little creeped out until the crayon changes his art-the one area where Jasper excels-into something better. When he faces a math quiz after skipping his homework, the crayon aces it for him. When Jasper watches TV instead of studying, he misspells every word on his spelling test, but the crayon seems to know the answers, and when he uses the crayon to write, he can spell them all. Jasper is flunking everything except art and is desperate for help when he finds the crayon. ![]() When a young rabbit who’s struggling in school finds a helpful crayon, everything is suddenly perfect-until it isn’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. ![]() Those who come to the book first as a graphic novel will be just as captivated.– Alana Abbott, James Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford, CTĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. For readers who enjoyed the novel, Coraline is sure to complement their reading experience. The pacing never lags, and Coraline's transformation into a girl who understands that having everything you want is the least interesting thing of all is natural. ![]() The style is realistic, which makes the moments when the other world loses its solidity even more eerie. Russell's illustrations suit the tone of the story perfectly, from the horrific black button eyes of the people in the other world to Coraline's very telling facial expressions. After Coraline's parents are kidnapped into the other world, she sets off on a mission to rescue them. However, the dangerous creature there–called the other mother– intends to keep her forever. When she comes upon a door in their flat that seems to go nowhere, enters an alternate world that at first is full of interesting things and delicious foods–everything that she has longed for. Insatiably curious Coraline is an explorer dedicated to discovering everything she can about the area around her family's new home. Grade 6-8–This adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel (HarperCollins, 2002) reads as though it were intended for the graphic novel format in the first place. ![]() |