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1) Robot dreams
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
205 p. col. ill. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The enduring friendship between a dog and a robot is portrayed in this wordless graphic novel.
Author
Series
Super diaper baby volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Irrepressible friends George and Harold create a new comic book superhero, Super Diaper Baby.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
125 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north without being caught or killed, she'd be free. Facing enormous danger, Araminta made it, and once free, she changed her name to Harriet Tubman....
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Series
Language
English
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"After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffaloes and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as foreign as Mars--at least until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name. In Messy Roots, Laura illustrates her coming-of-age as the girl who simply wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why girls make her heart flutter. Insightful, original, and hilarious,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Starting in 2011, refugees flood out of war-torn Syria in Exodus-like proportions. The surprising flood of victims overwhelms neighboring countries, and chaos follows. Resentment in host nations heightens as disruption and the cost of aid grows. By 2017, many want to turn their backs on the victims. The refugees are the unwanted. Don Brown depicts moments of both heartbreaking horror and hope in the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis. Shining a light...
6) Brave
Author
Series
Berrybrook Middle School novels volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In his daydreams, Jensen is the biggest hero that ever was, saving the world and his friends on a daily basis. But his middle school reality is VERY different - math is hard, getting along with friends is hard... Even finding a partner for the class project is a big problem when you always get picked last. And the pressure's on even more once the school newspaper's dynamic duo, Jenny and Akilah, draw Jensen into the whirlwind of school news, social...
Author
Series
Bone (Jeff Smith) volume 1
Language
English
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Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins when the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn. In Out From Boneville, volume 1 of this 9-book epic, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
"Ballerinas are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six--and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance classes at the School of American Ballet, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet while working with ballet legend George Balanchine. Part family history, part backstage drama, this beautifully updated graphic memoir--which features...
9) The snowman
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents a wordless book using over one hundred seventy-five picture frames to relate the story of the adventure shared by a little boy and the snowman he built in the yard.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this volume, Fahama has been kidnapped by a mad scientist and his zombie assistant, and they are intent on stealing her brain! She'll need to learn about the brain as fast as possible in order to plan her escape! How did the brain evolve? How do our senses work in relation to the brain? How do we remember things? What makes you, YOU? Get an inside look at the human brain, the most advanced operating system in the world... if you have the nerve!"--...
12) Odd duck
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
87 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Theodora the duck sets a good example for her friend Chad, but who is the odd duck?
Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
133 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology--and to our own understanding of ourselves."--Provided by publisher.
14) The shadow hero
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The Green Turtle solved crimes and fought injustice and this masked crusader is hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity.
Author
Series
Olympians volume 4
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hades: Lord of the Dead tells the story of the great God of the Underworld and one of the most famous of all Greek myths: Hades' abduction of Persephone and her mother's revenge. Be prepared to see a new side of Persephone in this dynamic adaptation of the story of the creation of the seasons.
16) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness.
Author
Series
Low riders volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
111 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lupe, Flapjack, Elirio customize their car into a low rider for the Universal Car Competition to win the cash prize that will enable them to buy their own garage.
19) Knife's edge
Author
Series
Four points volume 2
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old twin adventurers Cleopatra and Alexandra Dodge are reunited with their father and realize that two family heirlooms reveal the location of a treasure that is their birthright. When they set sail with Captain Tarboro on the Almira, they know they're heading into danger —the ocean is filled with new and old enemies, including their nemesis, the infamous pirate Felix Worley."--from publisher.
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