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English
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The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
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.
23) Fake blood
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition. First Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers paperback edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to get the attention of Nia, the girl he likes, eleven-year-old A.J. pretends to be a vampire, unaware that she intends to be a slayer.
25) The Poet X
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers?especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who...
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
91 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel about the summertime adventures of Babymouse, who tries surfing and snorkeling for the first time and learns a lesson when she wishes for someone "cooler" than her little brother, Squeak, to play with.
27) 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.
28) Smile
Author
Series
Smile volume 1
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
213 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly."--
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
233 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
32) 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
186 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In a fantastical England where each small town has a monster, the people of Stoker-on-Avon have to help their own, a depressed creature named Rayburn, become the monster he was born to be.
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 9
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree?"--Provided by publisher.
36) Battling Boy
Author
Series
Battling boy volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old demigod is sent to help the people of Arcopolis, a city infested with monsters.
Author
Series
Bone (Jeff Smith) volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
118 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The adventure starts when cousins Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville and later get separated and lost in the wilderness, meeting monsters and making friends as they attempt to return home.
Author
Series
Inuyasha volume 4
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Action ed.
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 12
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
91 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Babymouse's dreams of being a race car driver come true when she and her best friend Wilson enter a soap box derby.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Struggling to care for her sick father and raise her teenage children alone, a divorced mother spends the weekend at a North Carolina inn, only to meet a former surgeon running from his past.
Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite, she's...
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