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1) Bumped
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When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food.
Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody's doorstep. Up to now, the twins
...2) Thumped
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Megan McCafferty's Bumped series of books are must-read teen dystopian fiction, along with Ally Condie's Matched series and Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy. Thumped, the sequel to Bumped, manages to be satiric, scary, and romantic at the same time. It continues the story of separated-at-birth twins, Melody and Harmony, girls as engaging as McCafferty's Jessica Darling. These sisters are the most popular teen girls on the planet. To their fans, they...
3) Speed Bump
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This silver anniversary edition of Dave Coverly's Reuben award-winning Speed Bump collects 300 of his best cartoons into one full-color book. 25 years of ideas. 25 years of drawings. 25 years of coffee. Man, that's a lot of coffee. Coverly's work has appeared in over 400 newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Detroit Free Press, as well as in Parade magazine, textbooks, greeting cards, and even on that internet thingy....
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Bump in the Night volume 7
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Bumpy’s great aunt Matta is unfrozen from her Alaskan glacier and revived to find a 20th century that’s a bit alien for her. She visits her favorite relative Bump and proceeds to scare the pants off everyone in the house. Repeatedly. Ad nauseum. Even Bumpy. In order to get a moments peace, Bumpy and the gang must scare the scarer. But what if that’s not possible? / Bumpy discovers Destructo’s weakness, the big robot has a soft spot for...
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Bump in the Night volume 7
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Poor Squishington, he's become an outcast, a refugee, another statistic in the ever-escalating problem of homelessness. / Bumpy and Squish play “Hide and go Freak,” a game where you turn your head inside out, make you scariest face and frighten the bejeebers out of your surpris
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Bump in the Night volume 11
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Squishington's stomach is ticking! Bumpy thinks it's a bomb! / Squish hates his face. He thinks it's worthless and boring. “Who would want a face like this?”
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Bump in the Night volume 4
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The tables are turned when strange radiations mutate a harmless slice of bread into a slavering, feeding-frenzied, piece of terror toast! Our heroes, Bumpy and Squishington must scramble for their very lives. Fortunately, in the end, Bumpy knows which side the bread is buttered on and defeats the heinous whole wheat. / Squish’e computer pen-pal, the Little Robot, must flee for her life over the telephone wires when a complete recall is put into...
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Bump in the Night volume 10
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A brain-enhanced Sleemoth returns to Earth, and he and his sidekick alien Gloog capture their hated foe, Mr. Bumpy (along with Squishinton). Po-pooing comfort doll Molly (what can a girl do?), they head back to their home planet, with Bump and Squish in tow. But Molly is not one to be trifles with. She gets mad, and Sigorney Weaveresque, goes after the aliens. / The closet Monster decides to take up abode…under the bed! Poor Bumpy is hounded...
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Bump in the Night volume 13
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The tables are turned when strange radiations mutate a harmless slice of bread into a slavering, feeding-frenzied, piece of terror toast! / Mr. Bump is turned into a baby and sentenced to time in the Big Crib.
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Bump in the Night volume 2
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Squish hates his face. He thinks it’s worthless and boring. “Who would want a face like this?” Well, when our blue guy accidentally wipes his face off onto his washrag, we find out who would want his face. Silverfish! Yup, Squishy’s face is valuable. Possibly the most valuable thing the Silverfish could have: they all but worship it! Now Squish must somehow convince a whole subbasement full of hostile silverfish to give him back his...
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Bump in the Night volume 2
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In which our main man Bumpy is chased, pummeled and forced to wear a tuxedo by the Cute Dolls in order that his friend Molly Coddle can go to a tea party she has her heart set on.
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Bump in the Night volume 12
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Marauding Vikings are on a mission of plunder throughout the house, sacking, pillaging, and generally taking everything that isn’t nailed down. Mr. Bumpy sings a song which shows him to be the greediest of them all, so the Vikings make the Bumpster their new leader. Go figure… / A beautiful Princess Doll in a glass jar turns up in Little Sister’s room. It looks like she wants to get out, or at least that’s what a love-stricken Bumpy thinks....
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Bump in the Night volume 1
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Bumpy is after a particularly juicy sock. Unfortunately, an ambulatory glove is after the same sock. No way, no how is Bumpy gonna let some glove get his sock. / Squishington thinks that getting kissed by a princess will turn him into a prince.
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Bump in the Night volume 6
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When Bumpy puts Destructo’s batteries in backwards, the big metal juggernaut of destruction becomes a cross between Alan Alda and Phil Donohue. It’s terrible! Bumpy must right his wrong. Or does he? / The boy vows to trap the monster under the bed, and the monster under the bed, Mr. bumpy, vows to be untrappable. A battle of wits ensues, with Squishington bearing the brunt and comedy of the competition. In the end, after much trashing, Bumpy...
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Bump in the Night volume 3
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Squishington has a cold, and Mr. Bumpy vows to cheer his pal up by doing a magic trick” pulling a rabbit out of a hat! / Bumpy accidentally insults his best bud Squishington.
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Bump in the Night volume 9
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Bumpy and Squishy play “Hide and Go Freak,” a game where you turn your head inside out, make your scariest face and frighten the beejeebers out of your surprised playmates! The boys want to get Molly in on the game, but she’s a comfort doll and is built to hug, not to frighten. She finally stumbles onto a way to turn the tables on her scary pals, and reduces them to quivering wrecks, winning the game and having a ball in the process! / Aliens...
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Bump in the Night volume 3
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When Bumpy accidentally defrosts the freezer, he revives the Thanksgiving Day Turkey, which makes its escape into the house. In order for his Boy to have eats on the big day, Mr. Bumpy must track the gbller down and get it back to its wintery abode. But will Bumpy be able to do so without winding up stuffing? / Mr. Bumpy, rock star extraordinaire ( or so he thinks), sets out on a World Tour around the house, flailing away on his majorly over-amplified...
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Bump in the Night volume 8
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Molly gets the bright idea of becoming a doctor, so she sends away for a mail-order course in basic medicine. / Bumpy's ordered a really cool, neato, humungous toy robot from the back of a breakfast cereal box.
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Bump in the Night volume 6
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Oops! Bumpy has mistakenly eaten the Boy's homework and must brave a whole slew of dangerous story problems that involve out-of-control locomotives, the Closet Monster, and turning himself inside-out, in order to set things right. / When Bumpy finds an old smoking pop bottle, he's absolutely positive there's a genie inside.
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Great British Bump-Off volume 1
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An Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set in the world of English competitive baking from Giant Days' John Allison and Max Sarin.
When she enters her country's most beloved baking competition, Shauna Wickle's goal is to delight the judges, charm the nation, and make a few friends along the way. But when a fellow contestant is poisoned, it falls to her to apprehend the culprit while avoiding premature elimination from the UK Bakery Tent...and...