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Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this. But she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point. Lewis is trying to tell her this ... but she can't quite hear him yet. In [this book], Lewis Hancox takes readers on the hilarious, heartbreaking,...
4) Hey, kiddo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shares the author's upbringing in a family grappling with addiction and how he used art to survive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This compelling volume features more than a dozen true crime stories involving dead bodies, skeletons, and innovative crime-solving techniques. Readers will feel like they are part of the action of solving each crime with elaborate illustrations and a layout inspired by graphic novels. Each story also features realistic dialogue. Explanatory text describing key ideas about forensics, including crime scene investigation (CSI), make this engaging title...
6) Dragon Hoops
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An introverted teacher starts understanding local enthusiasm about basketball in his school when he gets to know some of the talented athletes and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Features more than a dozen remarkable tales of survival against the odds based on true events. Readers feel like they are part of the grueling struggles to stay alive in a variety of environments, from deserted deserts to vast open seas and freezing polar regions. Also includes explanatory text that introduces each dangerous environment with facts, photos, and maps.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
A fun and fascinating graphic novel-style primer that covers the key figures and events that have advanced women's rights from antiquity to the modern era. In addition, this compelling book illuminates the stories of notable women throughout history--from queens and freedom fighters to warriors and spies--and the progressive movements led by women that have shaped history, including abolition, suffrage, labor, civil rights, LGBTQ liberation, reproductive...
9) Spinning
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A graphic memoir recounts the years Walden spent competitively figure skating, before her developing love of art and first girlfriend causes her to question the insular world of figure skating.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a follow-up to Hey, Kiddo, the author shares his extraordinary experiences as a counselor at Camp Sunshine, a camp for seriously ill kids and their families, where he met campers and fellow counselors who forever changed the course of his life.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dive into the fascinating, unexpected, and inspiring stories behind 18 of the English language's greatest women writers in this graphic anthology. Why She Wrote brings together both famous and obscure writers from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries and highlights their history, hardships, and influence-on the written word and each other-through accessible and engaging comics. Framed by short biographies, bibliographies, and fun facts"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
With revamped art and now in full color, One Year at Ellsmere is an endearing—and surprising—middle-grade friendship story from beloved author Faith Erin Hicks!
Was boarding school supposed to be this hard?
When studious thirteen-year-old Juniper wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ellsmere Academy, she expects to find a scholastic utopia. But living at Ellsmere is far from ideal: She is labeled a "special project,"
15) Anya's ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse.
16) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
17) Clockwork prince
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
18) Illegal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Setting out to join his brother and sister in Europe, Ebo leaves Ghana, traveling through the Sahara Desert and dangerous streets of Tripoli before braving the merciless sea.
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