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Boy vs. shark /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Toronto] : Tundra, [2024]Copyright date: �2024Description: 234 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781774880449
  • 177488044X
  • 9781774880463
  • 1774880466
Other title:
  • Boy versus shark
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • j741.5/971 23/eng/20230808
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.7.G547 Boy 2024
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Summary: "In the summer of 1975, 10-year-old Paul Gilligan doesn't have a whole lot to worry about other than keeping his comic books untarnished, getting tennis balls off roofs and keeping up with the increasingly bold stunts of his best friend, David. And then Jaws comes to town. Suddenly everyone is obsessing over this movie about a shark ripping people to pieces. And if you haven't seen it, not only are you missing out, you're also kind of a wimp. Needless to say, Jaws leaves young Paul a cowering mess, and underlines the growing gap between him and David as well as the distance between where he stands and the world's expectations of a boy's 'manliness.' And when Jaws himself becomes a kind of macho Jiminy Cricket for Paul, what is a scared and overwhelmed boy to do?"--Back cover.
List(s) this item appears in: New Children's Fiction
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
JB JB Chamberlin Free Public Library Juvenile Graphic Novel JB Graphic GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000608657
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Chiefly illustrated.

"In the summer of 1975, 10-year-old Paul Gilligan doesn't have a whole lot to worry about other than keeping his comic books untarnished, getting tennis balls off roofs and keeping up with the increasingly bold stunts of his best friend, David. And then Jaws comes to town. Suddenly everyone is obsessing over this movie about a shark ripping people to pieces. And if you haven't seen it, not only are you missing out, you're also kind of a wimp. Needless to say, Jaws leaves young Paul a cowering mess, and underlines the growing gap between him and David as well as the distance between where he stands and the world's expectations of a boy's 'manliness.' And when Jaws himself becomes a kind of macho Jiminy Cricket for Paul, what is a scared and overwhelmed boy to do?"--Back cover.

Issued also in electronic format.

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