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Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
267 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heartbreakingly honest and quietly funny, this #ownvoices graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new girl at school--and then there's Viola. Viola is Livy's anxiety brought to life, a shadowy twin that only Livy can see or hear. Livy tries to push back against Viola's relentless judgment, but nothing...
Author
Series
Hildafolk volume 2
Publisher
Nobrow Ltd
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hilda finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis. Her mother, an architect, has been offered a prestigious position in the bustling metropolis that she would find hard to reject. Besides, the tiny elven creatures making a daily habit of bombarding them with threats isn't making Hilda's case any better. As she seeks ways to stall her mother's decision, Hilda rushes...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Avatar Aangand his friends confront an ancient spirit determined to destroy a town on land sacred to the Air Nomads, Toph and Aang find themselves on opposing sides in a battle of gigantic proportions. If Toph and Aang don't put aside their differences, there's more at stake than just their friendship!
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
206 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young orphan Billy Batson finds himself wielding truly amazing magic powers - just in time to face an invasion of alien and earthly monsters! All he has to do is say the magic word. Shazam! When Billy Batson follows a mysterious stranger onto the subway, he never imagines he's entering a strange world of powerful wizards, talking tigers, kid eating monsters, political intrigue and mysterious villains. But Billy encounters all that and more when the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The Best We Could Do, the debut graphic novel memoir by Thi Bui, is an intimate look at one family's journey form their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves....
Author
Language
English
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Description
"For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation--following her mother's announcement that she's getting married--Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new...
Author
Series
Owly volume 4
Language
English
Description
"There's a new visitor to the forest, an opossum who's misunderstood because of the way he looks. Wormy is afraid of him, and when Owly tries to untangle him from a fence, Possey begins hissing and bares his sharp teeth! He's scared and hurt, and now everyone is afraid! Can the trio be brave and face their fears with just a little courage and a lot of friendship?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 6
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Navin and his classmates journey to Lucien, a city ravaged by war and plagued by mysterious creatures, where they search for a beacon essential to their fight against the Elf King. Meanwhile, Emily heads back into the Void with Max, one of the Elf King's loyal followers, where she learns his darkest secrets. The stakes, for both Emily and Navin, are higher than ever" --
Author
Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 8
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Emily loses control of her Amulet, she is imprisoned in the Void, where she must escape the influence of the Voice, while her brother, Navin, travels to a space station where the Resistance is preparing to battle the approaching Shadow forces.
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 6
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Dog Man is sent to the pound for a crime he didn't commit, his friends work to prove his innocence.
91) 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.
Author
Series
My favorite thing is monsters volume 1
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Second Fantagraphics Books edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around...
95) Guts
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...
Author
Series
Cardboard kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follows the adventures of a group of neighborhood children who make costumes from cardboard and use their imagination to create adventures with knights, robots, and monsters."--Provided by publisher
97) 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.
98) The last unicorn
Author
Publisher
Gregg Press
Pub. Date
1978, c1968
Physical Desc
xxiv, 218 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a graphic novel adaptation of the famous novel, in which a unicorn, alone in an enchanted wood, discovers she might be the last of her kind and sets out on a journey to find others like her.
99) Two brothers
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features, but they could not be more different from one another. And the possessive love of their mother, Zana, stirs the troubled waters between them even more. After a brutally violent exchange between the young boys, Yaqub, "the good son," is sent from his home in Brazil to live with relatives in Lebanon, only to return five years later as a virtual stranger to the parents who bore him, his tensions...
100) The most costly journey: stories of migrant farmworkers in Vermont, drawn by New England cartoonists
Publisher
[Open Door Clinic]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
English Language Edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) is a collaboration between the Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, UVM Extension Bridges to Health, UVM Anthropology, and Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop. [It] is an ethnographic cartooning project that employs collaborative storytelling as a tool to mitigate loneliness, isolation, and despair among Latin American migrant farm workers on Vermont dairy farms."--Open Door Clinic website: https://opendoormidd.org/most-costly-journey/...
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