The Lovesick Skunk

The Lovesick Skunk
Author: Joe Hayes
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1935955012

When Joe Hayes was a boy, he loved to wear his black and white high-top sneakers. He wore them every day. “Get rid of those shoes,” his mother told him one morning. “They smell terrible!” But did Joe listen, did he believe what his mother said? Not until he met the back end of a skunk!

The Skunk

The Skunk
Author: Mac Barnett
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1626724113

This sly, hilarious tale, The Skunk, brings together luminaries Mac Barnett and Patrick McDonnell for the first time. An Entertainment Weekly Best Kids' Book When a skunk first appears in the tuxedoed man's doorway, it's a strange but possibly harmless occurrence. But then the man finds the skunk following him, and the unlikely pair embark on an increasingly frantic chase through the city, from the streets to the opera house to the fairground. What does the skunk want? It's not clear-but soon the man has bought a new house in a new neighborhood to escape the little creature's attention, only to find himself missing something. . .

A Pet for Petunia

A Pet for Petunia
Author: Paul Schmid
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0061963313

Meet Petunia. More than anything, Petunia wants a pet. “I’ll feed my pet every day,” she promises her parents. “I’ll take her for walks. I’ll read stories to her and draw her pictures.” Petunia knows she can take care of a pet, but what happens when the pet she most desires is a skunk?

Lizzy and Skunk

Lizzy and Skunk
Author: Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

When Izzy's favorite puppet is lost, she overcomes her fears to find him.

A Boy Called Bat

A Boy Called Bat
Author: Elana K. Arnold
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062445847

The first book in a funny, heartfelt, and irresistible young middle grade series starring an unforgettable young boy on the autism spectrum. For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises—some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat’s mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he’s got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific pet. "This sweet and thoughtful novel chronicles Bat’s experiences and challenges at school with friends and teachers and at home with his sister and divorced parents. Approachable for younger or reluctant readers while still delivering a powerful and thoughtful story" (from the review by Brightly, which named A Boy Called Bat a best book of the year). Elana K. Arnold's Bat trilogy is a proven winner in the home and classroom—kids love these short illustrated young middle grade books. The trilogy is A Boy Called Bat, Bat and the Waiting Game, and Bat and the End of Everything.

The Hip-Hop Mindset

The Hip-Hop Mindset
Author: Toby S. Jenkins
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2023
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807768707

"A hip-hop mindset is a set of professional practices that respects and values being both original and innovative. It is a professional approach that welcomes new ways of knowing, being and doing. Creativity is central. Hip-hop habits of mind are marked by high levels of drive, hunger, confidence, and self-worth. Hip-hop culture also demands an ethic of excellence. We command attention. We claim our space. In other words we own the spaces that we occupy. We also celebrate our greatness--brag, boast, pose. These are all necessary forms of self-love. But hip-hop is also a space of honor, integrity, kinship and grace. Most importantly, the hip-hop mindset gives us all (students, educators or any professional) the permission to show up in life as your full authentic self and to shine in your own culturally unique way. It gives us freedom"--

Skunked!: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet

Skunked!: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet
Author: Jacqueline Kelly
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1627798684

Callie helps her little brother care for two abandoned baby skunks, while trying to keep the skunks hidden from their mother.

Kildee House

Kildee House
Author: Rutherford G. Montgomery
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1993-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0802773885

When Jerome Kildee, a solitary man, builds a home in a redwood forest in California, he takes in some skunks and raccoons, but as they begin to multiply, Kildee looks to two human neighbors for help.

I was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-child & Other Stories of Rock'n'roll Excess

I was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-child & Other Stories of Rock'n'roll Excess
Author: Andrew Darlington
Publisher: Headpress
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781900486170

Unexpurgated interviews with legendary rock muscicians and bands including Peter Green, Grace Slick, Kraftwerk, The Kinks, Robert Plant and Siouxie Sioux, plus the full text of Gene Clark's last interview. Complete with discographies and illustrated profusely throughout.

Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution

Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution
Author: e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0763697133

More trouble at school and at home — and the discovery of a missive from her late soldier sister — send Angie and a long-ago friend on an RV road trip across Ohio. Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her good friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up an increasingly vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn on their mantel. At the ceremony, a soldier hands Angie a final letter from her sister, including a list of places she wanted the two of them to visit when she got home from the war. With her mother threatening to send Angie to a “treatment center” and the situation at school becoming violent, Angie enlists the help of her estranged childhood friend, Jamboree. Along with a few other outsiders, they pack into an RV and head across the state on the road trip Angie's sister did not live to take. It might be just what Angie needs to find a way to let her sister go, and find herself in the process.