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1) Flamer
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
4) Rainbow!
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2024]-
Language
English
Description
Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows...
5) Skip!
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Children's New Books: January 2024 Graphic Novels
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 5th & 6th Grades
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 5th & 6th Grades
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Description
"Jay often feels that like they are a nobody. Beah, on the other hand, is fierce, charming, athletic--and OBSESSED with the street skipping art, Double Dutch. But Jay's friendship with their new bestie Beah is intense, both in and out of Double Dutch. As Beah and Jay help each other grow into the people they will become, it challenges their friendship and their own identities."--
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format"--Title page verso.
7) Invisible
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's New Books: November 2022 Graphic Novels and Comics
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 5th & 6th Grades
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_ Graphic Novels
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Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 5th & 6th Grades
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_ Graphic Novels
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Formats
Description
"Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? There's George: the brain, Sara: the loner, Dayara: the tough kid, Nico: the rich kid, and Miguel: the athlete. And they're stuck together when they're forced to complete their school's community service hours. Although they're sure they have nothing in common with one another, some people see them as all the same... just five Spanish-speaking kids. Then they meet someone who truly needs their help,...
Author
Series
Serafina (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Children's New Books: May 2023 Graphic Novels
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 7th & 8th Grades
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 7th & 8th Grades
Description
In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Jake Hyde doesn't swim-not since his father drowned. Luckily, he lives in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, which is in the middle of the desert, yet he yearns for the ocean and is determined to leave his hometown for a college on the coast. But his best friend, Maria, wants nothing more than to make a home in the desert, and Jake's mother encourages him to always play it safe. Yet there's nothing "safe" about Jake's future-not when he's attracted...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Description
After discovering a secret that makes him question the honor of being the son of Poseidon, demi-god Percy Jackson journeys into the Sea of Monsters in an attempt to save Camp Half-Blood.
Author
Series
Wings of fire (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"When Starflight is stolen by his own tribe, he hopes to at least discover some of the long-held NightWing secrets -- what magical powers they really have, who they're allied with in the war, and where they've been living all this time. But the truth about Starflight's tribe is more terrible than he ever imagined: Not only do the NightWings live in a dark, miserable place, but they've imprisoned several innocent RainWings there, too. Stranded and...
12) The magic fish
Author
Series
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tié̂n still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tié̂n, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"--
13) Sorceline
Author
Series
Sorceline volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
For as long as she can remember, Sorceline has had a knack for the study of mythical creatures, and now a student at Professor Archibald Balzar's prestigious school of cryptozoology, she is eager to earn a spot as one of Balzar's apprentices.
Author
Series
Witch boy (Ostertag) volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Aster always looks forward to the Midwinter Festival, a reunion of the entire Vanissen family that includes competitions in witchery and shapeshifting. This year, he's especially excited to compete in the annual Jolrun tournament--as a witch. He's determined to show everyone that he's proud of who he is and what he's learned, but he knows it won't be easy to defy tradition. Ariel has darker things on her mind than the Festival--like the mysterious...
15) Lumberjackula
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Jack, who's half-vampire and half-lumberjack, struggles to choose between a vampire academy and a lumberjack school when all he really wants is to dance.
Author
Publisher
JY, an imprint of Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"I'm not her babysitter... Having a little sister isn't easy -- she takes my soda, follows me around, and wants to tag along with me and my friends. Worse, she always gets her way with our parents! Sometimes I wonder if I was adopted just to look after her. (I know, it doesn't make sense.) Going to middle school means at least she can't bother me there. I'll have plenty of time to practice to become MVP of the basketball team and maybe even...get...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: December 2023 Graphic Novels
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 7th & 8th Grades
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 7th & 8th Grades
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Description
Middle schooler Yuna, born in America to Korean parents, struggles with feeling too Korean to fit in with her American peers at school. Frustrated with her fractured life and desperate to fit in, Yuna makes a wish on paper stars to return to Korea so she might feel normal somewhere. When the unexpected death of her halmoni (grandmother) makes Yuna's wish come true, Yuna is wracked with guilt and feels more fragile than ever as she realizes she also...
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