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Author
Series
Zita the spacegirl volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
182 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When young Zita discovers a device that opens a portal to another place, and her best friend is abducted, she is compelled to set out on a strange journey from star to star in order to get back home.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps ; 16 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After moving to Echo City, Charles finds himself at the mercy of the town's monsters, but lucky for him there is Margo Maloo, monster mediator.
3) Kin
Author
Series
Good neighbors volume 1
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
117 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
144 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel interpretation of "Jack and the beanstalk," Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.
6) Sold
Author
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
8) Zebrafish
Author
Series
Zebrafish volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
119 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their rock band becomes popular, five middle schoolers use their new fame to generate awareness (and donations) for an important cause.
9) Laika
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
205 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the journey of Laika, the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler. With the blending of fact and fiction, this story intertwines three compelling lives. Along with Laika, there is Korolev, a driven engineer at the top of the Soviet space program and Yelena, the lab technician responsible for Laika's health and life.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
144 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa surrounded by towering walls. Rapunzel dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother. She climbs over the wall and finds out the truth. Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel's gold mine. In this Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws--including Gothel.
11) Meanwhile
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, a boy stumbles on the laboratory of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine.
14) Foiled
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aliera is a star at fencing, but at school no one notices her--until her new lab partner Avery begins flirting with her. Aliera's mother just bought her a foil from a garage sale, and it has a strange jewel attached to the hilt. Will Aliera's first date be ruined when magical creatures try to steal her foil?
15) Falling short
Author
Language
English
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Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
Author
Series
Hilo volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"There's only one person brave enough to save Earth once and for all, and that's Gina. The cost will be great. But with the help of one magical warrior cat, one flying bearacat, and a whole world that believes in her, Gina's going to try. Get ready for the most shocking Hilo yet--with more twists, more turns, more monsters, and more surprises than ever before. Because sometimes we're the hero the world needs!"--
17) The Hunger Games
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone fighting against you? Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
77 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Ink
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
180 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Garfield Logan has spent his entire life being overlooked. Even in a small town like Eden, Georgia, the 17-year-old with green streaks in his hair can't find a way to stand out--and the clock is ticking. Senior year is almost over. If Gar doesn't find a way to impress the social elite at Bull Creek High School, he will never know what it's like to matter. Gar's besties, Stella and Tank, don't understand why he cares what other people think, and they...
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