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Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle's little New Jersey town. He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer days. But then comes shocking news: A massive shark has been attacking swimmers in the ocean along the Jersey Shore, not far from where Chet is staying. Fear is in the air. So when Chet spots a gray fin in the creek, he's sure it's his imagination running wild. It's impossible he's about to come...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His internationally acclaimed graphic memoir, Stitches, told the story of a childhood in disarray. Werewolf at Dusk, appearing nearly fifteen years later, turned its attention to the twilight of life and to aging, gracefully or otherwise. Eerily striking and mesmerizing, the three stories in this collection...
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this ambitious and transcendent graphic novel, Liana Finck turns her keen eye to none other than the Old Testament, reimagining the story of Genesis with a God as a woman, Abraham as a resident of New York City, and Rebekah as a robot, among many other delightful twists. In Finck's retelling, the millennia-old stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob and Esau haunt the pages like familiar but partially forgotten nursery rhymes--transmuted...
5) Count
Author
Publisher
Humanoids Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From Eisner nominated writer/artist Ibrahim Moustafa comes a thrilling sci/fi reimagining of the greatest revenge story ever told, The Count of Monte Cristo! Framed for treason and wrongfully imprisoned at the hands of a jealous rival and a corrupt magistrate, Redxan Samud escapes his hovering prison colony hell-bent on retribution. Give a map from his dying jail companion to the location of a stolen cache of Union Credits large enough to make him...
Author
Series
I survived volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode. An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including Oscar! Will Oscar survive one of the most famous and devastating...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[ 2019]
Language
English
Description
Giraffes on Horseback Salad was a Marx Brothers film written by modern art icon Salvador Dali, who'd befriended Harpo. Rejected by MGM, the script was thought lost forever. But author Josh Frank found it, and with comedian Tim Heidecker and Spanish comics creator Manuela Pertega, he's re-created the film as a graphic novel in all its gorgeous full-color, cinematic, surreal glory. In the story, a businessman named Jimmy (played by Harpo) is drawn to...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children’s New Books: March 2023 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children’s New Books: March 2023 Graphic Novels and Comics
Formats
Description
The bestselling Cupcake Diaries series is now available in graphic novel format! In this adaptation of the first book, after her best friend moves on, Katie finds a new group of friends and they form the Cupcake Club. Katie is miserable when her best friend is invited to join the Popular Girls Club and Katie is left out. Is there an Unpopular Girls Club she can join? Luckily, Katie finds her way with a great new group of friends--Mia, Emma, and Alexis--and...
9) Macbeth
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and one of his best-known plays. Often referred to as an archetypal tale, it warns against lust for power and the betrayal of friends. Shakespeare based the play loosely on a King Macbeth of Scotland. The play is traditionally considered "cursed", and thus many actors refer to it as "The Scottish Play" to avoid naming it.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Claudia isn't worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy Sobak, is a big practical joker. After all, how much harm can one little girl do? Plenty. Claudia breaks her leg as a result of one of Betsy's jokes. Now Claudia is feeling like baby-sitting might be too dangerous and she's talking about quitting the club. Kristy thinks Betsy needs to be taught a lesson, and that the baby-sitters are just the ones to do it. Watch out, Betsy...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This new illustrated of Camus's final novel tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus's own. This stunning, fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood defined by poverty and a father's death, yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria-and the young protagonist's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. In telling the story of his metaphorical search for his father, who...
12) Mia in the mix
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children’s New Books: March 2023 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children’s New Books: March 2023 Graphic Novels and Comics
Formats
Description
When Mia arrives at her new school, her goal is to be open to and friendly with everyone, but everyone at Park Street School fits into a clique. When the Popular Girls Club takes an interest in Mia's awesome fashion style and wants to recruit her, Mia must decide between them and her great new Cupcake Club friends. It's like choosing between her divorced mom and dad and her old house and new house. Is it always going to be Mia in the middle, or can...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's New Books: December 2022 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Formats
Description
In this modern retelling, Anne is fostered into the West Philly home of siblings Marilla and Matthew, and while she initially has a hard time at school, she ends up joining the robotics team and competes for a spot in an elite STEM program.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Helena loves Demetrius, Demetrius loves Hermia, and Hermia and Lysander love each other and want to marry-but her father says no. How true it is that "the course of true love never did run smooth." Four foolish mortals, as well as for a quarreling fairy king and queen, star in Shakespeare's enchanting comedy of misbegotten lovers"--
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Wanting to pay for her junior bridesmaid dress herself, Emma quickly finds herself challenged with not enough time to keep up with her various part-time jobs.
Author
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At the centre of Secret Life is The Building, an office building wherein several factions vie for dominance... Jeff VanderMeer's ecological speculations overlap with Theo Ellsworth's deep-layered style to create a mind-bending narrative that defamiliarizes the mundanity of office work and makes the arcane rituals of The Building home... Secret Life observes the sinister individualism of bureaucratic settings in contrast with an unconcerned natural...
17) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's New Books: November 2022 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
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Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
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Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
18) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's tale. A son, distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a spectre from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge.
Author
Series
After novels (Anna Todd) volume 1
Publisher
Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group, a division of Wattpad Corp
Pub. Date
2022-
Language
English
Description
"A good girl-- a bad boy-- something undeniable-- and everything after. Tessa Young is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She's got direction, ambition, and a mother determined to keep her on course. But she's barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin Scott, with his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, and tattoos. He's good looking, confident, and rather rude, even a bit cruel. For all of his attitude...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens' dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire. Raised by a humble blacksmith, Pip is recruited by...
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