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A young journalist prompts a reclusive piano superstar to open up, resulting in this stunning graphic sonata exploring a lifetime of rivalry, regret, and redemption. 1933. In the small French village of Cressy-la-Valoise, a local piano contest brings together two brilliant young players: Julien Dubois, the privileged heir of a wealthy family, and François Samson, the janitor's son. One wins, one loses, and both are changed forever. 1997. In a huge...
2) Ratatouille
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Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In one of Paris' finest restaurants, Remy, a determined young rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French chef, setting off a hilarious chain of events"--
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From her marriage at the age of 20, until her divorce, this snapshot of Colette's life focuses on her formative years. Incredibly, complex, powerfully determined, truly gifted, Colette challenged herself to reinvent her life and assert herself as a free woman. In her day, her behavior scandalized and vexed the establishment. But in the end, she helped to free women in their thinking and became member and then president of France's prestigious Académie...
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Acclaimed cartoonist Lucy Knisley (French Milk, Relish) got an opportunity that most only dream of: a travel-expenses-paid trip to Europe and Scandinavia, thanks to a book tour. An Age of License is Knisley's comics travel memoir recounting her charming (and romantic!) adventures. Knisley's experiences are colored by anxieties, introspective self-inquiries, and quotidian revelations - about traveling alone in unfamiliar countries, and about her life...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries. In France, groups of anti-Nazi citizens, known as the French Resistance, fought to stop Germany's reign of terror. A brave woman named Nancy Wake became one of the movement's greatest assets as a spy. In her role, Wake often transported Jews to safe locations and rode her bicycle through German checkpoints to deliver messages and supplies....
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City of dragons (Jaimal Yogis) volume 2
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Grace and her friends are still recovering from the evil attacks plotted by ancient warlord Daijiang when Nate suddenly reappears and whisks Grace away to the Dragon King's lair. There, she learns that Daijiang is searching for a powerful dragon stone that will help him take over the world -- and that he has enlisted a terrifyingly fierce beast called Shadowfire to capture Grace. Pursued by the Shadowfire, Grace and her friends must get to Paris...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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During World War II, Germany's Nazi forces stormed across Europe, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and others. In 1942, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl formed a student-led, anti-Nazi organization called the White Rose. Their goal: distribute informational pamphlets to draw public attention to Nazi crimes-and, ultimately, stop them. Scholl's activism and resistance eventually led to her capture and trial before the Nazi regime. In this full-color...
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RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
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IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Robin? Robin? Robin?! Where are you? She couldn't have gone far... Right? Princesses don't run away to have their own adventures. Princesses stay quietly and obediently at home. They would never want mermaids and swamps and pirates and getting kidnapped to be a part of their lives. Not this princess! Adventures await when Robin (bored of princess-ing all the time) embarks on the best adventure of her life-meeting friends along the way as she travels...
12) Catherine's war
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Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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As France buckles under the Nazi regime, budding photographer Rachel Cohen must change her name, go into hiding, and bear witness to the atrocities of World War II.
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Resistance trilogy volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
14) Josephine Baker
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Sunbird Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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This graphic novel tells the true story of famous entertainer, civil rights activist, and World War II spy, Josephine Baker.
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Dead Reckoning
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Based on the true story of Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew who immigrated to France in the 1920s and became one of the richest men in Europe as a scrap-metal magnate. During the Second World War he becomes a Nazi collaborator and war profiteer who provides the Nazi regime with the metals it needs, but secretly he uses his wealth and influence to finance the French Resistance and free fellow Jews from Nazi hands. Due to his tactics he was one of...
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Miss don't touch me volume 1
Publisher
NBM
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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"Paris in the thirties. The 'Butcher of the Dances' is on the prowl for young loose women. Blanche works as a maid along with the only family she knows, her sister, fun-loving Agatha. Suddenly, Blanche loses her to what she saw was murder but others only write off as suicide. She decides to take matters into her own hands. In her pursuit, she ends up hired into a luxury house of call-girls. She even becomes quite good at certain lascivious practices...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
20) Layers: a memoir
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First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Pénélope Bagieu never thought she'd publish a graphic memoir. But when she dusted off her old diaries (no, really--this book is based on her actual diaries), she found cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking stories begging to be drawn. In Layers, Bagieu reflects on her childhood and teen years with her characteristic wit and unflinching honesty. The result is fifteen short stories about friendship, love, grief, and those awkward first steps...