Bluffton : my summers with Buster
Title:
Bluffton : my summers with Buster
JLCTITLE245:
Matt Phelan.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
223, 4 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780763650797
General Note:
Includes author's note and photograph--unnumbered pages 1-4.
"The illustrations were done in watercolor"--Title page verso.
Abstract:
The year is 1908, and a troupe of vaudeville performers has arrived in sleepy Muskegon, Michigan to spend the summer. Young Henry Harrison is fascinated with the animals and performers, but mostly with a slapstick performer his own age named Buster Keaton, who is also a master prankster and loves to play baseball.
Reading Level:
Elementary Grade.
GN 370 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 2.5 0.5 Quiz 159783 English fiction.
Subject Term:
Added Corporate Author:
Contents:
Foreward / by Margaret Cho -- A special note to teachers -- Introduction -- Camp Dread or how to survive a shockingly awful summer / by Ransom Riggs -- Sasquatch is out there (and he wants us to leave him alone) / by Kirsten Miller -- Warning: this essay does not contain pictures / by Scott Westerfeld -- It's onlike Donkey Kong / by Alan Gratz -- The world is full of time machines / by Steve Almond -- Hello, my name is / by Jennifer Lou -- Breakfast on Mars: Why we should colonize the red planet / by Chris Higgins -- Robots only: Why we shouldn't colonize Mars / by Chris Higgins -- Recall and defend / by Rita Williams-Garcia -- My life before television / by Elizabeth Winthrop -- A rite of passage (and the importance of penguin etiquette) / by Chris Epting -- Natural light / by Sloane Crosley -- Home girl / by April Sinclair -- Invisibility / by Maile Meloy -- The most famous fairy-tale cat of all is a furry-faced fabulist / by Daisy Whitney -- On facing my fears / by Khalid Birdsong -- Raised by wolves / by Sarah Prineas -- Why we need tails / by Ned Vizzini -- Death is only a horizon / by Alane Ferguson -- Blue jeans, Cat Stevens, and my first kiss / by Lise Clavel -- King Arthur's great power / by Mary-Ann Ochota -- A thousand truths: (Mostly) a good dog / by Steve Brezenoff -- Death by host family / by Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg -- The incredibly amazing humpback anglerfish / by Michael Hearst -- Showering with spiders / by Clay McLeod Chapman -- River girl / by Gigi Amateau -- A good lie / by Laurel Snyder -- How to fly / by Wendy Moss -- Blueberries / by Marie Rutkoski -- Banning books, an un-American act / by Sarah Darer Littman -- Laika endings / by Nick Abadzis -- From seed to flower / by Michael David Lukas -- Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll / by Léna Roy -- A single story can change many lives / by Craig Kielburger -- Creative boot camp / by Joshua Mohr -- Princess Leia is an awesome role model / by Cecil Castellucci -- The only job I've ever had / by Joe Craig -- Break the rules / by Ellen Sussman -- Acknowledgments -- Index by essay type -- Index of essay prompts.