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The extraordinary disappointments of Leopold Berry / by Ransom Riggs.
After years of grief-fueled visions of creatures from his favorite television show, seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry discovers that magic is real, and he might be the chosen one after all.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593530931 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 326 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Dutton Books, 2024.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 14 and up. Grades 10-12. |
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| Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Young adult fiction. Magic realist fiction. Novels. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | YA Riggs | 31681010385797 | YADULT | Available | - |
| Lakeshore Branch | YA Riggs | 31681010385805 | YADULT | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Obsessed with the 1990s kidsâ fantasy series Sunderworld, Leopold Berry believes the mythology is real and heâs destined to be Sunderâs chosen one, which turns out to be half right when he must survive LAâs magical side thatâs less disappointing and far stranger than he ever imagined. Simultaneous eBook. - Baker & Taylor
After years of grief-fueled visions of creatures from his favorite television show, seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry discovers that magic is real, and he might be the chosen one after all. - Penguin Putnam
The instant New York Times bestseller from visionary storyteller Ransom Riggs!
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Weaving the familiar with the peculiar, this stunning tale of loss, triumph, friendship and magic, will remind readers everywhere that true heroes are made, not bornâand when youâre never the chosen one, sometimes you have to choose yourself.
Seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry is seeing weird things around Los Angeles. A man who pops a tooth into a parking meter. A glowing trapdoor in a parking lot. A half-mechanical raccoon with its tail on fire that just wonât leave him alone. Every hallucinatory moment seems plucked from a cheesy 1990s fantasy TV show called Max's Adventures in Sunderworldâand thatâs because they are.Â
Not a good sign.
In the blurry weeks after his motherâs death, a young Leopold discovered VHS tapes of its one and only season in a box headed for the trashâand soon became obsessed. Losing himself in Sunder was the best way to avoid two things: grieving his mother and being a chronic disappointment to his overbearing father. But when the strange visions returnâat the worst possible time on the worst possible dayâLeopold turns to his best friend Emmet for help. Together they discover that Sunder is much more than just an old TV show, and that Los Angeles is far stranger than they ever imagined. And soon, heâll realize that not only is Sunderworld real, but itâs in grave danger.
Certain heâs finally been chosen for greatness, Leopold risks everything to claim his destiny, save the world of his childhood dreams, and prove once and for all that heâs not the disappointment his father believes him to be. But when everything goes terribly, horribly, excruciatingly wrong, Leopoldâs disappointments prove to be more extraordinary than he ever could have imagined.
How do you battle darkness when no one believes in youânot even yourself?
Welcome to Sunderworld.
