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Ducoboo is always sitting a the back of the classroom and getting in trouble. He has to employ treasures of imagination to avoid getting interrogated by the teacher and having to wear the dunce cap. In his efforts to be 'a good student', he copies relentlessy on Leonie, who sits next to him and is an ace student. However, she hates people copying her work and Ducoboo ends up having to stand in the corner more than once.

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This is a hugely humorous series. The adventures of the most adorable, brilliant, and universally appreciated dunce that the graphic novel world has invented are now available in English! The pupil Ducoboo is nice and a joker, but also a notorious dunce - a "quality" that is no bed of roses...One must be awfully resourceful to avoid the humiliating dunce's cap! But Ducoboo is brimming with imagination...Through gags, some stranger than others, this series champions values such as friendship and the right to be different, and tackles subjects such as boy-girl and parent-child relationships.

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Ducoboo's life isn't easy. Being the king of dunces - while still managing to avoid wearing the crown too often - takes work, dedication, and an awful lot of imagination. It also takes a proper target: Leonie, the gifted girl who doesn't like to share her answers with His Majesty. It's a constant war of wits between these two, under the disbelieving eye of the long-suffering teacher, fought with wigs, cameras and magical pencil-sharpeners. And when school's over, the beach is the new battlefield!

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What would a class be without a dunce? A bit like a curry without spice. And Ducoboo sure spices up his fellow pupils' days. Not one lesson goes by without flavour - with him, school is an endless string of break-times. Of course, there's always Leonie, the terribly gifted girl who doesn't put up with Ducoboo's messing and doesn't believe in sharing knowledge. Of course, there's also the teacher, whose index finger turns out to be more threatening than ever...No, school life isn't one long, smooth ride: for some, the school year is perhaps the most dangerous time of all!

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A new year approaches for pitifully inept student Ducoboo, dunce extraordinaire and notorious troublemaker. A whole year of enduring Mr Latouche's punishments, of sharing the dunce cap with Skelly, the biology class skeleton, and of course of waging merciless war on his deskmate, top student Leonie, who refuses to let him copy her answers. But behind the dim-witted clown's facade, could Ducoboo be hiding a loyal heart?

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Journey back in time to the roaring twenties, and across England and Lapland, to experience the charming and thrilling adventure of Emma G. Wildford, a tale that mixes mystery, grand adventure, and love. It's been fourteen months since Emma G. Wildford's fiance, Roald Hodges, a member of the National Geographic Society board the good ship Kinship and set sail for Norway... and she has had no news of him since. Every day, she questions the other members of the Society about his whereabouts, and his current situation, whether good or ill, but to no avail. Before he left, Roald gave Emma a mysterious envelope to open, but only in case something happened to him. Rejecting the very thought of Roald's death, Emma decides to leave behind everything - her life, her comfort, her England, to go to Lapland in pursuit. Along the way, Emma's certainties and beliefs will be challenged in every way, changing this quest for her fiance into a quest for her true, essential self. Beautifully illustrated and rivetingly written, Emma G. Wildford is a character that will imprint herself on your mind and memory forever!

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