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2) Mosquitoland
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Language
English
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"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--
4) The mosquito
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Hilarious illustrated nonfiction about mosquitos perfect for beginning readers. Conversational text and silly illustrations will have you up all night reading about the most annoying bug on Earth!"--
5) El mosquito
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Series
Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"El mosquito. ¿De qué se alimenta? ¡De humanos como tú! Rasgos distintivos. Un zumbido molesto cuando echa a volar y una trompa larguísima con la que puede chuparte la sangre. Talento especial. Puede conseguir que te pique todo el cuerpo no dejart dormir en toda la noche."--
Author
Series
Nat enough volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Companion to the New York Times bestseller Nat Enough!
You can stay stuck or go forward, but you can't go back.
Natalie has just arrived at summer camp and soon realizes it isn't anything like the brochure. Instead of spending the summer with her best friends, Zoe and Flo, Natalie is stuck with her ex-BFF, Lily, and someone even more annoying than the endless mosquitoes: Millie Flatbottom. Even
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Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After a year on Mars, a young boy and his family migrate to the planet Choom, but the inhabitants of Choom, the Zhuri, who look like giant mosquitoes, don't really like humans and it up to the boy and his family to change their minds if they hope to survive.
Publisher
MBI
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A detailed overview of the development of fighter aircraft achieved through detailed pictorial, diagramatic and written analysis of 100 examples which include the WWI Morane-Saulnier Type N, WWII P-38 Lightning, WWII DeHavilland Mosquito, and the modern Dassault Rafale, Saab Gripen, F-22A Raptor, and Eurofighter EF2000 Typhoon.
10) Wild stories
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
For all the animal inhabitants of the grden, life was very simple until humans moved back into house Number Fourteen. Now all of sudden, Ethel the chicken is trying to hatch golf balls and Venus the caterpillar has fallen in love with the moon.
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Language
English
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Description
"A riveting exploration of the phenomenon of psychosomatic disorders, mass hysteria, and other culture-bound syndromes occurring around the world. In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Wicked Bugs: The Meanest, Deadliest, Grossest Bugs on Earth is a middle-grade adaptation of Amy Stewart's Wicked Bugs that features profiles of the world's scariest, deadliest, and grossest bugs, from the most painful hornet to flies that transmit deadly diseases to millipedes that stop traffic, to "bookworms" that devour libraries. With its featured bugs organized by categories that match the upper elementary science curriculum, this humorous, fascinating,...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In a city far in the future, in a society that has come through a great upheaval, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. urban wolves in the light of an apartment building. A line of mosquitoes in uniforms and regalia, honored as heroes of the last great war. Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
A plague, called Wickedness,is pulsing through the world; and in its wake, it's dividing the population into thirds: The WICKED: Already infected by the droves of Singers, the ultraviolet mosquito-like insects who carry the plague, the Wicked roam the world freely. They don't want for much-only to maim and dismember you. But don't worry: They always ask politely first. The TRUE: The True live in contained, isolated communities. They're the lucky ones;...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to a city built between a river and a swamp, where the moisture-drenched air swarms with mosquitos after sundown. Once the capital of the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A gay man's erotic journal in poems, from a young and rising star in the poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed debut collection Second Empire. A Hundred Lovers is a catalogue of encounters, sublime, steamy, and frank. Inspired by French autofiction, the poems feel both sharp and diaristic; their lyrical, intimate world brings us everyday scenes imbued with sex. "Eros enters, where shame had lived," he observes, as the poems explore risk and...
Author
Publisher
Strange Light
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner's daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of, retires into what he assumes will be the promised afterlife of days on the golf course, celebrity endorsements, and cushy real estate investments. But markets tank, family disintegrates, fame fades, and the holes in his mind and memory from a career of punishment on the field become too large and...
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Series
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's been a busy week for the F.L.E.A. (Fenced-in Area Law Enforcement Agency) as Bee and Flea chase bug-related crime. But Bee worries it's Flea solving all the cases. When Gail the Snail delivers an invitation to an after-the-rain party, Flea closes up shop and drags Bee along. The worst part? The party is IN a puddle. Bee doesn't even know how to swim... but soon, she and Flea are sinking into the depths in their Scuba gear. First, they meet Copepod...
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