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Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity: the Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 150 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of...
3) In real life
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 175 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from...
Series
Graphic classics volume 20
Publisher
Eureka
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight stories and poems of pioneer days on the American frontier. Presented with comic-book style art.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl heads towards the hospital waiting room where the doctors are going to tell her how much time she's got to live. As she walks, she thinks about her journey up to this point ... the terrible decor in the hospital, wearing a headscarf, the horrible treatments, but also being with her friends, family, and her new boyfriend Victor. This is a story about cancer with a happy ending. It's about life, love, and especially, hope.
6) On a sunbeam
Author
Publisher
First Second
Language
English
Formats
Description
In two interwoven timelines, a ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together; and two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.
8) Nimona
Author
Series
Nimona volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are. But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious...
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Bina faces her first summer without her best friend, Austin, who has left for soccer camp.
Series
My boyfriend is a monster volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2011-]
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
DC Ink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
208 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Princess Mera is teenage royalty and heir to the throne of Xebel, a penal colony ruled by the other not-so-lost land under the sea, Atlantis. Her father, his court, and the entire kingdom are expecting her to marry and introduce a new king, but Mera is destined to wear a different crown. When the Xebellian military plots to overthrow Atlantis and break free of its oppressive regime, Mera seizes the opportunity to take control over her own destiny...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A dark, powerful and moving short story from the internationally acclaimed author of Skellig. Joe Quinn tells everyone about the poltergeist in his house, but no one believes him. No one that is, except for Davey. He's felt the inexplicable presence in the rooms, he's seen random objects fly through the air. And there's something else ... a memory of his beloved sister, and a feeling deep down that somehow it might be possible for ghosts to exist....
14) Spy goddess
Author
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2008-]
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When she is sent to a supersecret spy training academy because of a brush with the law, teenager Rachel Buchanan learns that she may be a reincarnated goddess, takes on missions involving a lunatic millionaire, and tries to learn kung fu without breaking a nail.
Author
Publisher
Super Genius
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy -- a once rational teenager - shocks her family by insisting that Michael is alive and in the custody of a mysterious flying boy. Placed in a new school, Wendy negotiates fantasy and reality as students and adults around...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"New Year's Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight. But there's something coming that is deadlier than any war. When people begin to fall ill, most Americans don't suspect influenza. The flu is known to be dangerous to the very old, young, or frail. But the Spanish flu is exceptionally violent. Soon, thousands of people succumb. Then tens of thousands ... hundreds of thousands and more. Graves can't be dug...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
199 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A ruthless new gang of criminals known only as Nightwalkers is terrorizing Gotham, and the city's elite are being taken out one by one. On the way home from his 18th birthday party, newly minted billionaire Bruce Wayne makes an impulsive choice that puts him in their crosshairs and lands him in Arkham Asylum, the once-infamous mental hospital. There, he meets Madeleine Wallace, a brilliant killer...and Bruce's only hope. Madeleine is the mystery...
18) March: Book two
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the Deep South, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the young activists of the movement struggle with internal conflicts as well. But their courage will attract...
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Language
English
Formats
Description
By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
160 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Within days of the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a seven-member commission to investigate the assassination report, the Warren Commission determined that there was "no credible evidence" conflicting with its conclusion of a lone gunman. Artist Ernie Colon, bestselling illustrator of "The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, " teams up with author Dan Mishkin to provide a unique means of testing the commission's findings,...
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