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Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new...
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Giver quartet volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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7th grade Dystopian
Award: Great Stone Face Winners, 1979-2024
Award: John Newbery Medal, for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature, 1975-2024
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Award: Great Stone Face Winners, 1979-2024
Award: John Newbery Medal, for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature, 1975-2024
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Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"A fantastic story about the awkward feelings of being from neither here nor there."
—Dan Santat, National Book Award winner and author of A First Time for Everything
With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That's when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive
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Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime...
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Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation...
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Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book one spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down? At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia and missed even more school. Before Jimmy knew it, his grades were sinking and nothing seemed to be going right. How did Jimmy turn things around, get back...
9) The tryout
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2022.
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English
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As one of the only Asian Americans in her school, Christina confronts both well-meaning ignorance and cruel racism, but in middle school fitting in is important, which is why she and her best friend Megan are both excited and nervous to try out for the popular cheerleading squad.
"When cheerleading tryouts are announced, Christina and her best friend, Megan, literally jump at the chance to join the squad. As two of the only kids of color in the school,...
10) The jungle
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"A compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century"--
11) Smile
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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From sixth grade through tenth, Raina copes with a variety of dental problems that affect her appearance and how she feels about herself.
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Clementine volume 1
Publisher
Skybound Comics, an imprint of Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge a new path all her own. But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement. As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh...
14) Mutts
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Publisher
Andrews and McMeel
Pub. Date
c1996
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Language
English
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A collection of Mutts comic strips featuring Mooch the cat and Earl the dog.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The adventure starts when cousins Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville and later get separated and lost in the wilderness, meeting monsters and making friends as they attempt to return home.
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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Things are looking bright at the Beifong Metalbending Academy! But after all the adventures Toph's had with Aang, Sokka, Zuko, and Katara, the whole thing feels a bit dull. Luckily, Sokka and Suki come to visit and reintroduce some familiar faces from their wandering days. And while out and about to celebrate, Toph discovers something that just might put the sparkle back in her eye...
Written by Faith Erin Hicks (The Adventures of Superhero Girl,...
17) The blue lotus
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed., U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the Cigars of the Pharoah. Tintin, a master of disguise, has a close shave with a mad master swordsman, has to avoid trouble with the military, and has to find the real mastermind behind the opium shipments.
18) Kodi: [Book 1]
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Publisher
Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
"Katya and her Meema are spending another normal summer at their cottage in Alaska, when a chance accident leaves Katya face-to-face with the biggest creature she's ever seen... an enormous Kodiak bear, soon to become her closest friend. But when Katya must suddenly return home to Seattle, the two are torn apart, leaving Kodi to do whatever it takes to reunite with his fragile human friend. It's a wild adventure packed with breathtaking views, new...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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or twenty-five years Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers a “rich, funny, deep and impossible to put down” (Publishers Weekly) selection from all eleven Dykes volumes. Here too are sixty of the newest...
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
2010
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English
Description
Inside the June Alley Inn, located in the western mouse city of Barkstone, mice gather to enjoy the renowned hospitality of June herself. On one particular evening, the subject of unpaid drink tabs leads to a contest. Whichever patron can weave the best tale for June's ears will have their past tab cleared entirely. With such an alluring prize up for grabs, the eager patrons begin telling fantastic stories, spinning their yarns throughout the evening...
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