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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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"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...
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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,...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
154 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a fight breaks out among the members of the Baby-sitters Club, timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a baby sitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.
4) Sisters
Author
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
197 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.
5) Cardboard
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
283 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Cam's down-and-out father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday, they fashion it into a man that magically comes to life, but things spin wildly out of control when the neighborhood bully steals a scrap of the cardboard to create creatures that promptly disobey his orders and multiply into an unruly army.
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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...
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Series
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
145 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dawn, the newest member of the Baby-sitters Club, gets more than she bargained for when her first job turns into a disaster and she has problems with Kristy.
Author
Series
Wings of fire (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Determined to end a generations-long war among the seven dragon tribes, a secret movement called the Talons of Peace draws on a prophecy that calls for a great sacrifice, compelling five appointed dragonets to fulfill a painful destiny against their will.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comesc crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--
12) 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.
13) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In this electrifying follow-up to Kwame Alexander's Newbery winner The Crossover, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage. A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Longlist nominee, now in a graphic novel edition featuring art from Dawud Anyabwile. Twelve-year-old Nick 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. Helping him along are his...
14) Dog Man
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
George and Harold create a new comic book hero in Dog Man, a crimefighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, who faces off against his archnemesis Petey the cat
15) The adventures of Super Diaper Baby: the first graphic novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins
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.
16) Star scouts
Author
Series
Star Scouts volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Avani is the new kid in town, and she's not happy about it. Everyone in school thinks she's weird, especially the girls in her Flower Scouts troop. Is it so weird to think scouting should be about fun and adventure, not about makeovers and boys, boys, boys? But everything changes when Avani is 'accidentally' abducted by a spunky alien named Mabel. Mabel is a scout too--a Star Scout. Collecting alien specimens (like Avani) goes with the territory,...
Author
Series
Olympians volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
76 pages : chiefly color illustrations, genealogy table ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the moment she emerged, fully grown, from the head of Zeus, Athena was one of the most complex Olympians. This graphic novel retells her many interwoven tales: how she killed Pallas, fought the Gigantes, aided Perseus, and cursed Arachne
18) El deafo
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English
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"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful--and very awkward--hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear--sometimes...
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English
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"Safia thought that being blind meant she would only get to go on adventures through her audiobooks. This all changes when she goes to live with a distant and mysterious aunt, Lady Whimsy, who takes Safia on the journey of a lifetime! While the reclusive Lady Whimsy stops an old rival from uncovering the truth behind her disappearance, Safia experiences parts of the world she had only dreamed about. But when an unlikely group of chaotic agents comes...
20) Drama
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
233 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
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