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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years, but now, there is nowhere else to go. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Miggy Brenneman is a wild and reckless seven-year-old with a fierce imagination, hellbent on pushing against the limits of childhood. Ellen is polite, cautious, and drawn to her friend's bright flame. While the adults around them adjust to unstable times and fractured relationships, the girls respond with increasingly dangerous play. When tragedy strikes, all the novel's characters grapple with questions of fate and individual responsibility, none...
3) Showtime!
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ty loves playing the instruments, but something's missing--his friends! With the help of his vivid imagination, Ty and his friends are onstage in a band making great music together!"--Provided by publisher.
4) Roxaboxen
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
5) Hurricane
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
The morning after a hurricane, two brothers find an uprooted tree which becomes a magical place, transporting them on adventures limited only by their imaginations.
6) Case study
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination. London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks....
8) Changes
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
As he waits at home for his parents to return, a young boy ponders his father's remark "Things are going to change around here" and begins to imagine all kinds of changes in the world around him.
9) I'm a frog!
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 20
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Piggie introduces his reluctant friend, Gerald the elephant, to the wonderful world of pretend.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
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Description
Even as he lives his life, Jacques L’Aumône, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard in passing, any of these are enough to kick things into gear and send him off outside of himself to become a boxer, a general, a bishop, or a lord. He lives alongside his life with diligence and steadfastness; and the passage from real to dream is so natural for him that he no longer knows...
14) Ladybug Girl
Author
Series
Ladybug Girl volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
After her brother tells her she is too little to play with him, Lulu, dressed as Ladybug Girl, makes her own fun.
15) Tiny barbarian
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tiny fantasizes he is a mighty Barbarian who can conqure anything, but even he has trouble conquring the dark.
19) One boy watching
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"This lyrical picture book follows one boy's early morning bus ride to school and the many things he observes"--
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