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Hollis Woods - Young foster girl.. The Regans - Old man, Izzy, and Steven. They want Hollis to be a part of her family even though she pushes them away. Josie - An elderly retired art teacher who adores Hollis, but is forgetful, so Hollis is afraid that the agency will find out and make her go to a different foster home, so she takes her to the Reagans summer cabin/house.
Upon waking in the morning, Coraline finds herself back in the real world. She meets her other neighbors: Mr. Bobinsky, an eccentric Russian liquidator-turned-gymnast who owns a mouse circus, and retired burlesque performers April Spink and Miriam Forcible. Wybie tells Coraline about how his grandmother's twin sister disappeared when they were ...
The Illustrated Mum, one of her previous works appeared in this list, because the girls had different fathers. This angered Wilson, who decided to write The Diamond Girls in response, despite the girls having different fathers, they still all live well together. Meanwhile, there is a sub-plot about six-year-old Mary, a girl who comes from a ...
Coraline Jones is the main character. She is a curious, intelligent, resourceful, and courageous girl. Coraline is often irritated by rain, her "crazy" grown-up neighbors, and not being taken seriously because of her young age. She is described as being "small for her age". Mel Jones is Coraline's mother. She is very busy most of the time, and ...
In the fourth book, Sheila becomes Peter's step-cousin when her grandfather, Buzzy, and Peter's grandmother, Muriel, marry. In the book Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Sheila meets her best friend, Mouse Ellis. She constantly fibs about her fear for many things, such as dogs, spiders, swimming, and the dark, but in the end, she confronts ...
Let’s face it: Being annoying was practically a prerequisite for being a Girls character. Yet it seems everyone is rewatching Lena Dunham’s hit HBO series. Millennials are using the show as a ...
The Trouble with Girls is a satirical action series starring Lester Girls, who wants to be simply an "average guy" with a dead-end job, a plain wife, and no adventures more exciting than a good night's sleep, but Lester can't go for a drive without terrorists launching missiles at him, or walk into one of his many mansions without a beautiful ...
For Erica Tso Haidas, founder of Belonging Books in Hyannis, Coombs' book is a nonfiction account of America's earliest days with stories woven in that reflect the ways of Wampanoag life.