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A Day no Pigs would Die
This coming-of-age story is set in 1920s rural Vermont, and focuses on Robert, a teenage boy who is becoming closer with his father, who is a butcher who slaughters hogs. Robert is given a pet pig, Pinky, from his neighbours after helping their cow…
A Wrinkle in Time
This book is about Meg Murry, a fourteen year-old girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This book is told in first person narrative by Huckleberry Finn, friend of Tom Sawyer, and is the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It follows Huck as he escapes from the confines of small town, religious, southern life to float on a…
And Tango Makes Three
This story is based on the two male penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo, Roy and Silo, who made a nest together but discovered neither of them could lay an egg. They watched the other penguins and tried to hatch a rock that looked like an egg.…
As Nasty as they Wanna Be
This is the third album by Miami bass group, 2 Live Crew. It was their best selling album but was later declared legally obscene in the United States, and was the first album to ever be declared so. The group later released the album "As Clean as…
Beloved
Set after the American Civil War this book was inspired by the true life story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner. The book follows the story of Sethe, an slave who escaped slavery from Sweet Home in Kentucky to Cincinnati where she would…
Bridge to Terabithia
This book follows the friendship of Jess and Leslie, eleven year-old boy and girl living in the rural south. To escape the hardships of family and school life and the realities of poverty, Jess and Leslie develop a fantasy world in the woods near…
Daddy’s Roommate
This book was one of the first children's books to portray homosexuality in a positive light. It tells the story of one boys divorced father who now lives with his life partner. The two men do the same things heterosexual couples do such as take care…
Easton Ellis, Bret. American Psycho
Told in first-person narrative, this book is set in Manhattan in the late 1980s and follows the life of the young and wealthy investment banker, Patrick Bateman. Bateman describes his daily life on Wall Street and recounts his evening outings in…
Fallen Angels
When seventeen year old Richie Perry realizes he cannot afford to go to college he joins the army. He leaves the US for Vietnam with idealized ideas of war, which are soon shattered upon arrival. He witnesses increasing levels of destruction and…
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7 Wonders
Players: 2-7
Playing time: 30 minutes
Ages: 10+
Description: Lead one of the seven great cities of the Ancient world. Exploit the natural…