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Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.)
3) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Disabilities and Special Needs
Kids - Realistic Fiction
Teens - The Best of the Best Teen Books
Kids - Disabilities and Special Needs
Kids - Realistic Fiction
Teens - The Best of the Best Teen Books
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
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Description
Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery--a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacobs grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abes double-life as a peculiar operative...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen version (1.33:1).
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
10) Wonder
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First illustrated edtiion.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
11) Freaks
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing of poor children from the banks of the Thames.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
1130L
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gloriously rich and utterly delightful, Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders is an indispensable guide to the peculiar world, perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike. Covering everything from how to blend in with suspicious normals to the most popular time loops to visit as a temporal tourist, this essential volume is ideal for anyone curious about the world of Miss Peregrine: its strange history, curious practices, fascinating places, most...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
Español
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Formats
Description
Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates.
Aunque siempre trata de esconder su rostro, es objeto de miradas, susurros y reacciones de asombro. August sale poco, su vida transcurre entre las acogedoras paredes de su casa, en compañía de su familia, su perra Daisy y las...
15) Hubert's freaks: the rare-book dealer, the Times Square talker, and the lost photos of Diane Arbus
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
17) Basket case
Publisher
Something Weird Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Twentieth anniversary special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Duane Bradley checks into a sleazy, 42nd Street flophouse with a mysterious wicker basket. Inside the basket is Duane's hideously misshapen Siamese twin brother, Belial, who was severed from his side when they were children and rudely left for dead in a garbage bag. But Belial survived, and Duane hit the Big Apple with his beastly bro to wreak havoc on the surgeons who separated them. Things get complicated, however, when Duane get romantically sidetracked...
18) The elephant man
Series
Criterion collection volume 1051
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
19) Red butterfly
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In China, a foundling girl with a deformed hand raised in secret by an American woman must navigate China's strict adoption system when she is torn away from the only family she has ever known.
20) Unblemished
Author
Series
Unblemished volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
369 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With a birthmark covering half her face, Eliyana has always recoiled from her own reflection in the mirror. But what if that were only one Reflection--one world? What if another world existed where her blemish could become her strength?"--
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