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Amazing Grapes
Jules Feiffer
Illustrator: Jules Feiffer
Ages: 14+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Michael di Capua Books/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-296383-3
Keywords: Fantasy-Social-emotional learning, love, hate, sibling relationships, mother-child relationships, death
Transported to an alternate dimension, a family embarks on a phantasmagorical, emotionally draining adventure. Feiffer's signature sketchy artwork is enhanced with color.