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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials: Book 1)
The first of a trilogy, this book follows Lyra Belacqua, an orphan who lives with the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College. One day her uncle, Lord Asriel, visits and tells her of mystery and danger in the far North. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs.…
The Giver
The book starts in a seemingly Utopian world where there is no war, pain, suffering, or difference of choice. However, it becomes clear that society has given up all of its memories of the time before this "Sameness", and have also lost colour,…
The Chocolate War
This book is narrated from alternating third-person perspectives and is set at Trinity School, a preparatory, all-boys, Catholic high school.. The two most common voices are those of Jerry Renault, a solitary first-year and protagonist of the story,…
The Catcher in the Rye
The story is told from the protagonist's, Holden Caulfield's, point of view. The book opens with him at Pencey Prep school, where he gets into an argument with his roommate, Stradlater, over a girl. Holden decides he has had enough of Prep school and…
The Book of Bunny Suicides
This dark comedy book includes cartoon drawings of bunnies who are trying to commit suicide. The drawings are made in such a way that their exact method is not immediately obvious. The book includes pop-culture references including a reference to The…
The Adventures of Captain Underpants
This book follows the mischievous activities of fourth graders, George and Harold, as they pull numerous pranks at their school. They write a comic book about Captain Underpants and pull a series of practical jokes on the school's football team.…
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
In this semi-biographical, coming-of-age story, told in first-person narrative, a Native-American teen, Arnold Spirit Jr. (referred to as “Junior” throughout the book) details his experience attending an all-white public high school in the…
Spycatcher
In this book Wright talks about his time serving in the security service MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), which is a British domestic counter-intelligence and security agency. He states that he was assigned to unmask Roger Hollis, a former MI5…
Show Me!: A Picture Book of Sex for Children and Parents
Originally published in Germany, this is a sex-education book aimed at helping parents teach their children about discovering and exploring their sexuality. The book contains numerous photos of children and adults alike.
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textures of your pandemic experience
A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.