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(0)Lewis Helfand
Author
Publisher
Campfire/Kalyani Navyug Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book, in graphic novel format, retells H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," the story of traveling thousands of years into the future and learning how humankind has evolved into two races.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House, Incorporated
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Introduces children to the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in graphic novel format, discussing his childhood, reactions to the segregation laws in the South, peaceful protests, and influence on the civil rights movement.
8) Kim
Author
Language
English
Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Rudyard Kipling's Kim is the tale of an Irish orphan raised as an Indian vagabond on the rough streets of colonial Lahore. Young Kimball O'Hara's coming of age takes place in a world of high adventure, mystic quests, and secret games of espionage played out between the Russians and the British in the mountain passages of Asia. Kim is torn between his allegiance to the ascetic...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte brothers. The first book H. G. Wells published, The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. Even before...
10) The Sixties
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, millions of young men and women were searching for a way to express their deepest desires and fears. And they found that in rock and roll as a host of musicians armed with nothing more than poetic lyrics and electric guitar riffs became the voice of a generation.
Publisher
Campfire Comics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Orville and Wilbur Wright were just two seemingly average brothers from the American city of Dayton, Ohio, without even a high school diploma. Both were content living as local businessmen, printing newspapers and building bicycles. Like so many others, the two creative and inventive brothers harboured a secret fantasy since childhood, a dream to be able to fly.
In the late 1800's, the world's leading scientists were trying to construct a machine...
Publisher
Campfire Comics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Fortune favours the bold... They were an unstoppable force hired to take the crown from the King of Persia. They were a fearless army of Greek soldiers, and one hundred thousand men fighting as one. They were led by the finest and most courageous generals in all of Greece. They were being led to unimaginable wealth, but that was days ago. Now their leaders are dead and their army has scattered. Now their numbers have fallen to ten thousand men and...
13) Nelson Mandela
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1948, justice and equality were outlawed in the country of South Africa. The people needed one voice to speak up when the world fell silent. They needed one leader to stand up when the world looked away. One man answered that call, one man who sacrificed his own future for the future of his people and transformed a nation. The story cuts back to Mandelas childhood where we see him going through school and then university and finally, to when he...
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Rock music has taken over the airwaves for decades. Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Keith Richards, Jimi Hendix, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison are just some of the iconic figures that have formed the rock music genre. This jam session of biographies showcases these trailblazers in this unique illustrated graphic novel.
Publisher
TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Icons of Rock #4 Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Bono. Geniuses all, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse exemplify the epitome of talents taken from us too soon, while Bono's generation-spanning gift offers stability and relative newcomer Adele proffers hope. Icons of Rock #4 presents the life stories of musicians with talents that will be long-remembered.