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1) Squished
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room--her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own room...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry...
3) School trip
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jordan, Drew, Liam, Maury, and their friends from Riverdale Academy Day School are heading out on a school trip to Paris. As an aspiring artist himself, Jordan can't wait to see all the amazing art in the famous City of Lights. But when their trusted faculty guides are replaced at the last minute, the school trip takes an unexpected--and hilarious--turn. Especially when trying to find their way around a foreign city ends up being almost as tricky...
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 10
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Physical Desc
221 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dog Man is down on his luck, Petey confronts his not so purr-fect past, and Grampa is up to no good. The world is spinning out of control as new villains spill into town. Everything seems dark and full of despair. But hope is not lost. Can the incredible power of love save the day?
Author
Lexile measure
GN 270L
Language
English
Description
"'I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.' These are the famous last words of Nathan Hale, a spy for the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. But who was this Nathan Hale? And how did the rebels defeat an army that was bigger, better, stronger, and more heavily armed than they were? The book you are now holding has answers to these questions, as well as stories of ingenuity, close calls with danger, and acts of heroism in the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
GN 540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this graphic version of the classic fable, Ion is a boy in a little town in Transylvania who loves to play tricks on the other villagers, so when a real vampire appears at his window nobody responds to his cries for help, and it looks like the final trick is on Ion--maybe.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 440L
Physical Desc
220 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grand̈mre. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grand̈mre's heartrending...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is -- each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. The White Violin is bedridden due to an unfortunate blow to the head. Rumor has lost her voice -- the source of her power. Spaceboy has eaten himself...
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 12
Lexile measure
GN 320L
Language
English
Description
After an encounter with a skunk, Dog Man, now scarlet red after being dunked in tomato juice, is exiled but must find a way to save those who shunned him when an all-new, never-before-seen villain unleashes an army of A.I. robots.
10) Illegal
Author
Series
Lexile measure
GN 490L
Language
English
Description
"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (178 pages) : chiefly illustrations
Language
English
Description
In his years as a Hong Kong police officer, Nishi Tatsuyoshi has never seen murder victims like the ones being found in the abandoned Kowloon Walled City. Bodies completely drained of blood are showing up every few nights, and rumors of vampires are swirling. The closer Nishi gets to the truth, the more obstacles are thrown in his way. Someone doesn't want him to discover what's really going on! Forced into an uneasy alliance with the Chiropteran-hunting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (23 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Aaron discovers an empty space ship behind a fence in his neighborhood. With a touch of a button, he is on course to the moon. He has an exciting adventure and makes new friends that are out of this world!
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (31 pages) : chiefly illustrations
Language
English
Description
Frank "Half Dead" Johnson is a mage with sorcerous powers and half a soul. Now, he has two centuries to work off his debt to The Devil himself. When the Italian mob asks Half Dead for his help, he embarks on a dangerous mission to discover what happened to several of their men who were brutally killed.
14) Black magic
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (202 pages) : chiefly illustrations
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of a half-human, half-bionic sorceress named Typhon who was created to stave off a war on the planet Venus between an AI named Nemesis and the humans seeking to control it.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Language
English
Description
What would it be like to stand head and shoulders above everyone else - and to keep growing? Unable to interact with a fragile world that isn't built to withstand your size? To live in a house that doesn't fit you anymore - with a wife who doesn't either? Craig Pressgang's life is well documented in his official CIA biography, Giant Man: Pillar of America, but the heroic picture it paints is only half the story. The continuous growth caused by Craig's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
147 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes--and always goes back to sleep. But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong--and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a huge cloud of ash and rocks that fall from the sky like rain, will they have time...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages) : chiefly illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
Contains a manga adaptation of the Lovecraft horror story about an Antarctic expedition's unusual discoveries and encounter with danger in the ruins of a lost civilization.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains a graphic novel based on H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" in which a stranger walks through a small English town covered with bandages all over his body. When several villagers try to uncover him, they discover he is really invisible.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
221 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Featuring dazzling art from the Paramount+ and Nickelodeon animated series, and starring all the charming characters of Lincoln Peirce's bestselling books, Big Nate: Destined for Awesomeness includes hilarious graphic novel adaptations of three different episodes." -- Page [4] cover.