The summer before seventh grade, Venola Mae Cutright, Belington, West Virginia's best newspaper carrier, writes a series of humorous letters to her best friend away at camp, the Imperial Magic Sea Monkey Company, and her newspaper boss.

Some seemingly insignificant little fleas decide to change their lives and create a wonderful circus. Not judging by appearances, believing in yourself and developing the artist in all of us are just some of the messages of this charming story. Determined to turn their lives around, they created the wonderful, incredible, fabulous FLEA CIRCUS, the smallest circus in the world. As soon as it opened, the circus was completely filled and the show was a success. Fleas from all over the world came to see the great Flea Circus with their own eyes. Determined to turn their lives around, they created the wonderful, incredible, fabulous FLEA CIRCUS, the smallest circus in the world. As soon as it opened, the circus was completely filled and the show was a success. Fleas from all over the world came to see the great Flea Circus with their own eyes. A wonderful story that encourages us to believe in ourselves and to overcome limitations.

Science-based Effectiveness Strategies to Succeed & Prosper Do you feel as if time is slipping you by? Are you trapped in recurring cycles of mediocrity and bad habits? Do you want more out of life? Don’t worry, everybody has bad habits that prevent them from getting ahead! This guidebook will help you understand why bad habits happen, what you can do to break the cycle of self-limiting behaviours, and how to finally liberate yourself from negative thinking. This book will help you to: · Feel more capable and more confident · Escape The Flea Circus and transform your life · Identify and overcome negative thoughts · Eliminate ineffective habits and increase happiness PLUS develop a long-term strategy for success and prosperity. With over two decades of experience as a doctor, mentor, and author, Dr. Scott Zarcinas has helped thousands of people get unstuck and back on track. Scott’s experiences, tips, and strategies will help you find direction, maximise your potential, and create the life you deserve.

Fiction. Pascal's Wager and performing fleas. The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch and an old dockside bar. Raceway Park and a pristine 1971 Plymouth Road Runner. A cat named Altamont. These are all that stand between a young mathematician and madness as she attempts to make sense of her lover's suicide. Narrow margins, you say? Not much to place between a slip of a brokenhearted Jersey Girl and the Abyss? Indeed, it is a treacherous twelve seconds on the quarter mile, hilarious and harrowing by turn. Blink and you'll miss it.

More award-winning and popular strips of "Mother Goose and Grimm", featuringGrimmy, are available in this collection.

The story of a flea circus family follows their performances, from exotic sideshow attractions to the death-defying leap through a flaming flea collar, while an accompanying stand-up stage and finger puppets invite readers to play along.

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.

From the moment Bob Langmuir, a down-and-out rare book dealer, spies some intriguing photographs in the archive of a midcentury Times Square freak show, he knows he's on to something. It turns out he's made the find of a lifetime--never-before-seen prints by the legendary Diane Arbus. Furthermore, he begins to suspect that what he's found may add a pivotal chapter to what is now known about Arbus as well as about the "old weird America," in Greil Marcus's phrase, that Hubert's inhabited. Bob's ensuing adventure--a roller-coaster ride filled with bizarre characters and coincidences--takes him from the fringes of the rare book business to Sotheby's, and from the exhibits of a run-down Times Square freak show to the curator's office of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Will the photos be authenticated? How will Arbus's notoriously protective daughter react? Most importantly, can Bob, who always manages to screw up his most promising deals, finally make just one big score?

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Spider and his friends save the day by performing for the already assembled audience when the fleas desert the flea circus.