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21) Vampire Academy
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With encouragement from her supportive lunchbox, a young girl ignores a classmate's teasing and heartily enjoys bao buns, stinky tofu, and other tasty lunches prepared by her Taiwanese grandmother.
23) I am Princess X
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Libby Deaton and May Harper invented Princess X when they were in fifth grade, but when the car Libby is in goes off a bridge, she is presumed dead, and the story came to an end--except now, three years later, Princess X is suddenly everywhere, with a whole underground culture focused on a webcomic, and May believes her friend must be alive.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 12 x 34 cm
Language
English
Description
Armed with scientific knowledge and a magic dagger, Leo is determined to outwit man-eating Quadclops giants and Malvisors and travel to the center of the earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While at an international summit about water usage, Devin and Nadia join Marcus, Bounce, and Pema to find and stop the people trying to prevent Marcus's father, an environmentalist speaking at the event, from delivering his message.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Long Tail Kitty, Tony, Big E the elephant, and other animals discover friendship, patience, and acceptance in four connected stories with comics-style illustrations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
153 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes.
Author
Series
Publisher
TOON Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
50 pages : all color illustrations ; 16 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The wordless adventure of two children whose misdeeds are punished when they're transformed into monkeys. In the tradition of kamishibai, or Japanese paper theater, the wordless format gives freedom to the readers to tell the story as they see it"--
Author
Publisher
TOON Graphics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illiustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"After getting separated from his teacher, his classmates, and his trip partner during an outing to the Empire State Building, Pablo, the new kid in school, learns to navigate the New York City subway system as well as his own feelings towards making new friends and living in a big city"--Provided by publisher.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After discovering a secret that makes him question the honor of being the son of Poseidon, demi-god Percy Jackson journeys into the Sea of Monsters in an attempt to save Camp Half-Blood.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Princess Decomposia, overworked and underappreciated, runs the underworld for her layabout father but when she hires Count Spatula, a vampire with a sweet tooth, as the new chef, he not only helps straighten out her life, he may become more than a friend.
Series
Secret Smithsonian adventures volume 1
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
After discovering that the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is much smaller, has no Spirit of St. Louis airplane or Apollo 11 command module, and is filled with balloons, blimps, and dirigibles, four schoolmates travel through time to try and restore the Wright brothers to their well-earned place in history and learn about aerodynamics and other aviation principles along the way.
35) Shadow kiss
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retold in graphic novel format, while Rose is coping with the darker effects of being shadow-kissed, her relationship with Dimitri is finally taking off, and when he disappears during a Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's Academy, she must make a terrible choice.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
191 pages : chiefly color illustrations, map ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Walter Bean is happiest when he gets to spend time tinkering on his inventions in his grandfather's workshop, but when his grandfather acquires a curse, Walter must embark on dangerous quest to return a pearl skull to the witches who made it.
37) Peanut
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations, some color ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nervous about starting her sophomore year at a new high school, Sadie decides to make herself more interesting by claiming to be allergic to peanuts, but her lie quickly spirals out of control.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness. Certainly a case of "dust dementia" would explain who (or what) Jack has glimpsed in the Talbot's abandoned barn - a sinister...
Series
Green Lantern Corps volume 3
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
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