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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Grown-Ups are Dumb by Alexa Kitchen Grown-Ups are Dumb by Alexa Kitchen. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. Dumb parents, little brothers, gigantic messes, and homework--this is the plight of young readers everywhere. And, until now, it had not been expressed by someone so close to the source. Ten-year-old Alexa Kitchen may have an unusual talent--she is the world's youngest comics artist--but she really is just like many girls her age. Just trying to get by in a world that seems determined to undermine her at every turn. Luckily she's got a way with a pen and a good sense of humor. This collection of funny, insightful cartoons based on the real-life trials of many families will resonate with young readers everywhere. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Preteens -- Comic books, strips, etc. Girls -- Comic books, strips, etc. Cartoons and comics. Grown-Ups are Dumb by Alexa Kitchen. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. Biographical text provided by the publisher (may be incomplete or contain other coding). The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher. 1423113317 03. Ten-year-old Alexa Kitchen may have an unusual talent--she is the world's youngest comics artist--but she really is just like many girls her age. Just trying to get by in a world that seems determined to undermine her at every turn. Luckily she's got a way with a pen and a good sense of humor. This collection of funny, insightful cartoons based on the real-life trials of many families will resonate with young readers everywhere.]] Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Preteens -- Comic books, strips, etc. Girls -- Comic books, strips, etc. Grown-Ups Are Dumb! (No Offense) Dumb parents, little brothers, gigantic messes, and homework--this is the plight of young readers everywhere. This hilarious collection is populated with lots of different characters featured in cartoons that range in length from a panel to several pages, so it can either be dipped into on the run or read all in one sitting. Read More. Dumb parents, little brothers, gigantic messes, and homework--this is the plight of young readers everywhere. This hilarious collection is populated with lots of different characters featured in cartoons that range in length from a panel to several pages, so it can either be dipped into on the run or read all in one sitting. Read Less. Grown-Ups are Dumb by Alexa Kitchen. Use the *Library Link* to find each title at your local library. Following each description is a link to the publisher, or author, site for the book. To get more information, click this. Check out my companion book blog: Grown-Ups Are Dumb! (No Offense) by Alexa Kitchen. Dumb parents, little brothers, gigantic messes, and homework--this is the plight of young readers everywhere. And, until now, it had not been expressed by someone so close to the source. Ten-year-old Alexa Kitchen may have an unusual talent--she is the world's youngest comics artist--but she really is just like many girls her age. Just trying to get by in a world that seems determined to undermine her at every turn. Luckily she's got a way with a pen and a good sense of humor. This collection of funny, insightful cartoons based on the real-life trials of many families will resonate with young readers everywhere. The Comics Observer. 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The Storm in the Barn – $24.99 By Matt Phelan 208 pages; published by Candlewick Press; available at Amazon.com. In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father’s failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness. Certainly a case of “dust dementia” would explain who (or what) Jack has glimpsed in the Talbot’s abandoned barn — a sinister figure with a face like rain. In a land where it never rains, it’s hard to trust what you see with your own eyes — and harder still to take heart and be a hero when the time comes. With phenomenal pacing, sensitivity, and a sure command of suspense, Matt Phelan ushers us into a world where desperation is transformed by unexpected courage. Tall tale. Thriller. Gripping historical fiction. This artful, sparely told graphic novel — a tale of a boy in Dust Bowl America — will resonate with young readers today. Giraffes In My Hair: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Life – $19.99 By Bruce Paley & Carol Swain 120 pages; published by Fantagraphics Books; available at Amazon.com. A UNIQUE TAKE ON THE SUMMER OF LOVE GENERATION, THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC NOVELIST AND HER PARTNER, WHO LIVED IT Bruce Paley turned 18 in 1967 during the Summer of Love, putting him on the front lines of the late-1960s youth movement. Paley’s tumultuous journey took him from being a Jack Kerouac-loving hippie in the 1960s, on the road with his 17-year-old girlfriend, dropping acid at Disneyland, living in a car, and crashing with armed Black Panthers at the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention, to hanging out at Max’s Kansas City, shooting heroin and cocaine with the likes of rock star Johnny Thunders, and frequenting Times Square’s seedy brothels — a journey that mirrored the changing times as the optimism of the ’60s gave way to the nihilism of the punk years. Over a dozen years, Bruce crossed paths with hippies, violent cops, rednecks, rock stars, and Black Panthers… and ended up a heroin addict for much of the 1970s. These stories are vividly brought to life in Giraffes in My Hair (A Rock ’N’ Roll Life) by the compelling visual storytelling of Bruce’s partner, the cartoonist Carol Swain. Swain’s trademark visual approach to comics, typified by exquisitely composed panels that vividly capture both anomie and pathos, is perfectly suited to dramatizing Paley’s life during that confusing, tumultuous period of American history — a life lived in the countercultural margins, amidst personal chaos and social dissolution. Swain’s storytelling rhythms are contemplative and breathes inner life into Paley’s turbulent stories, creating a perceptive prism to view the vast possibilities and endless pitfalls as experienced by a kid growing up in America in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Here’s a 9-page preview (PDF), which makes up the first chapter. West Coast Blues – $18.99 By Jacques Tardi & Jean-Patrick Manchette 80 pages; published by Fantagraphics Books; available at Amazon.com. A SAVAGE NOIR THRILLER REUNITING A MASTER CRIME NOVELIST AND A SUPERLATIVE FRENCH CARTOONIST George Gerfaut, aimless young executive and desultory family man, witnesses a murder and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. Adapting to the exigencies of his new life on the run with shocking ease, Gerfaut abandons his comfortable middle-class life for several months (including a sojourn in the countryside after an attempt to ride the rails turns spectacularly bad) until, joined with a new ally, he finally returns to settle all accounts… with brutal, bloody interest. Originally released in 2005, West Coast Blues ( Le Petit bleu de la côte ouest ) is Tardi’s adaptation of a popular 1976 novel by the French crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette. (The novel had been previously adapted to film under the more literal title Trois hommes à abattre , and was released in English by the San Francisco-based publisher City Lights under the English version of the same title, 3 to Kill .) Tardi’s late-period, looser style infuses Manchette’s dark story with a seething, malevolent energy; he doesn’t shy away from the frequently grisly goings-on, while maintaining (particularly in the old-married-couple-style bickering of the two killers who are tracking Gerfaut) the mordant wit that characterizes his best work. This is the kind of graphic novel that Quentin Tarantino would love, and a double shot of Scotch for any fan of unrelenting, uncompromising crime fiction.