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To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented.

A hippopotamus' hiccups disrupt the lives of the animals around him so they turn to a wide variety of antidotes to solve his dilemma.

A murder in a small English village leads Hercule Poirot into a strange mystery involving a determined, curious spinster, the local doctor, and a wide range of suspects with possible motives and mysterious relationships.

In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's.

Presents the original text of Lewis Carroll's Alice novels, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass," accompanied by manga-style artwork.

Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.

Presents the title work in which Simon flees from a friendly monster with the aid of some drawing pens and a bottle of ink, and includes an introduction to the author, a look at how books are made, and reviews of related books.

"It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.

On a rainy day, Mo and Joe pass the time by imagining all of the careers they might pursue when they grow up.

Four crocodile friends have many adventures on the way to the beach.

When a moose gives a Bingle Bug a ride on his horns, he unwillingly becomes host to a large number of free loading pests.

Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.

The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.

An annotated edition of Jean Rhys's novel centered upon Bertha, the Jamaican madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; includes several of Rhys's letters, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and works of criticism discussing such aspects of the novel as colonialism, race, and Caribbean culture.

Best friends Winter and Sloane make a pact to do whatever it takes to get noticed in their sophomore year, but once Sloane is taken up by the "popular" crowd, she quickly leaves Winter behind, and Winter must consider the consequences when she decides to take revenge by airing all of Sloane's secrets on an anonymous blog.