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Author
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and... a threat. Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to be found between the panels of the strange books. With...
Author
Series
Story thieves volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aided by old friends and new, Owen and Bethany try to bring the light back to Jupiter City, a comic book world where they discover a link between the Dark and Bethany's father.
3) Othello
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"This third edition of Othello offers a completely new introduction by Christina Luckyj, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of early modern theatre and culture, and demonstrating how careful attention to Shakespeare's language, staging and dramaturgy can open up fresh interpretations of the play. Tracing critical and performance trends up to the present day, Luckyj shows how the drama taps into contemporary cultural paradoxes surrounding...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jacob and friends are lost at sea after fleeing an army of monsters and the only person who might be able to save them is their headmistress, Miss Peregrine. The only problem? Miss Peregrine has turned into a bird! Can the peculiar friends figure out how to get Miss Peregrine back to normal and get ashore safely?
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's...
6) Persepolis
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Teach children to read with comics! Kids will love these laugh-out-loud books with very easy text in speech balloons. They'll adore the zany cast of characters-- monsters, owls, robots, mice, pigs, talking pumpkins, and more!" -- Container.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Teach children to read with comics! Kids will love these laugh-out-loud books with very easy text in speech balloons. They'll adore the zany cast of characters-- cookies, birds, dinosaurs, ghosts, giants, monsters, and more!"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"--and to the past 60 years of American culture--from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale. The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are, Douglas Wolk notes, the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created:...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life... Tanjiro and his friends accompany the Hashira Tengen...