Emily the Strange: Dark Times
HarperCollins · Paperback · December 27, 2011
Emily's uniquely strange homeschool syllabus includes . . .
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- Who it’s for
- A strange syllabus makes room for time travel, bonnet basics, and ancestral-enemy thwarting.
- Themes
- Time travel, Parallel universes, Historical oddities
- Genres
- YA Fantasy Comics, YA Mystery & Detective Comics, YA Paranormal Comics
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Emily's uniquely strange homeschool syllabus includes . . . 1. Time Travel 101 2. Advanced Spy Photography 3. Bonnet Basics 4. Great-Aunts Through the Ages 5. Intro to Germ Theory 6. Care and Feeding of ’Squito Fish 7. Fundamentals of Black Rock 8. Spiderweb Embroidery 9. Historical & Contemporary Felines 10. Pop Quizzes 11. Foodstuffs of the 1790s 12. Thwarting Ancestral Enemies 13. Techniques in Parallel Universe Management
Lessons Out of Order
A strange syllabus makes room for time travel, bonnet basics, and ancestral-enemy thwarting.
Come here for
- The curious collision of spy photography and spiderweb embroidery
- A syllabus where germ theory sits beside parallel-universe management
Expect
- A playful list of subjects, from 1790s foodstuffs to historical felines
- Schoolwork with decidedly unusual course titles
Where it sits
| YA Mystery & Detective Comics | 50% |
|---|---|
| YA Paranormal Comics | 32% |
| YA Fantasy Comics | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Cat Stories
- Girls & Young Women
- Halloween Stories
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- Mysteries & Detective Stories
- Self-Esteem & Resilience
- Paranormal
- Time Travel Fiction
- Authors
- Rob Reger, Jessica Gruner
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- December 27, 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Time travel · Parallel universes · Historical oddities
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure