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American editorial cartoonist Jeffrey Koterba discusses his childhood and life in Omaha, Nebraska, his lifelong interest in drawing, battles with Tourette syndrome--which he inherited from his father--being struck by lightning, and related topics.

Twelve-year-old evil genius, Oliver, uses his great brain to become the third richest person in the world, and finds that overthrowing foreign dictators is easier than getting the kids in his middle school to vote him class president.

In 1900, out-of-work butcher Pat Crowe kidnaps and ransoms the teenage son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon. After receiving $25,000 in gold and releasing the boy, Crowe makes his way across America and beyond, bank-robbing, safe-cracking, burgling, and bond-jumping his way into the public eye. The manhunt that followed became the thrill of the nation.

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

Twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.

An acclaimed editorial cartoonist traces his success back to his chaotic boyhood home and his complicated father, who, like the author, suffers from Tourette's syndrome, in book with thirty drawings by the author.

A young girl named September finds herself transported from her home in Omaha to Fairyland, where she must battle the mysterious Marquess alongside her creature-friends.

Twelve-year-old evil genius, Oliver, uses his great brain to become the third richest person in the world, and finds that overthrowing foreign dictators is easier than getting the kids in his middle school to vote him class president.

September, having returned to Fairyland and learned the fairies are losing their shadows and magic, faces off against the new ruler of Fairyland Below, Halloween, who happens to be September's shadow.