September 6, 2010
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The Giant Slayer

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Synopsis A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world. The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside the breathing [...]


A Thousand Never Evers

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Synopsis For Addie Ann, graduating up to junior high means that she was grown. However, over the course of the summer and into the early school year, she realizes what being grown actually means and what terrible things can happen in the world of adults. Set in Kuckapoo, Mississippi in 1963, Addie Ann begins to [...]


The Invention of Hugo Cabaret

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Synopsis Both of his parents have died, so Hugo Cabaret lives with his uncle inside of the clock room at the train station in London. He’s inherited his father’s ability to tinker with toys and anything that has working gears, parts, and pieces. Before the fire, his father happened upon a mechanical man that was [...]



 

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