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Jedi Academy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Jeffrey Brown takes readers to a middle school in a galaxy far, far away...This incredible, original story captures all of the humor, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school—all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, doodles, and newspaper clippings. The setting? A galaxy far, far away...Roan's one dream is to leave home and attend Pilot Academy like his older
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Step back in time and experience the Civil War through the stories of the people who lived through it. Witness the first shots on Fort Sumter. Hear blood-curdling rebel yells. Experience a brutal battle at sea. True Stories of the Civil War doesn't just tell you the tales of war. It drops you into the thick of combat.
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Comics luminary Will Eisner takes on literary giant Charles Dickens, in this fascinating retelling of the life of Oliver Twist's Fagin! Imagining Fagin's impoverished childhood in the slums of London and his initiation into the criminal underworld, Eisner's story counters the anti-Semitism of Victorian literature as his gorgeous brushwork creates an evocative portrait of the era. Now with Eisner's previously unused full-color cover art! Foreword by...
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In this new original graphic novel from superstar writer/designer Chip Kidd and artist Dave Taylor, Gotham City is undergoing one of the most expansive construction booms in its history. The most prestigious architects from across the globe have buildings in various phases of completion all over town. As chairman of the Gotham Landmarks Commission, Bruce Wayne has been a key part of this boom, which signals a golden age of architectural ingenuity...
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Compulsive Comics collects the very best of Eric Haven's inverted-comic book-consciousness and genre-bending short stories. Includes the controversial story "I Killed Dan Clowes," where the main character fatally hits acclaimed graphic novelist Daniel Clowes and then immediately goes on to accidentally kill another fan favorite, Adrian Tomine. Haven's surrealist, self-reflexive, and superbly rendered comics surprise at every turn and showcase an inherent...
9) Enlightened
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A fictionalized biography of the life of Siddhartha Gautama, better known as the Buddha, the progenitor of Buddhism."--Provided by publisher.
10) Primer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Primer introduces a brand-new superhero with a colorful array of superpowers to explore.
Ashley Rayburn is an upbeat girl with a decidedly downbeat past. Her father is a known criminal who once used Ashley to help him elude justice, and in his attempt to escape, a life was taken. He now sits in federal prison, but still casts a shadow over Ashley's life. In the meantime, Ashley has bounced from foster home to foster home and represents a real challenge...
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Preparations begin at Castle Golga for the annual festival of the undead, as a pair of fearless vampire killers question a man hidden away in a monastery on the Baltic Sea. The mysterious Mr. Higgins wants nothing more than to avoid the scene of his wife's death, and the truth about what happened to him in that castle. However, these heroic men sworn to rid the world of the vampire scourge, inspire Higgins to venture out and to end the only suffering...
12) Blink
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Wren Booker was three when she was found alone and covered in blood on the streets of New York. Since that day, she's been haunted by the childhood she can't remember…until decades later when she finds a cryptic website streaming multiple CCT feeds from strange rooms in a ruined building. Something clicks, setting off hidden memories that lead her back to a place she's seen in lifelong nightmares. Hunting for answers, Wren breaks in and finds herself...
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Olympians volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Introduces Hera, Zeus's wife and goddess of air, sky, and the heavens, and the only thing Zeus is afraid of.
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This first-ever collection by the award-winning team of siblings Peter and Maria Hoey encompasses the very best of their inventive and mysterious comics. The compilation ranges from the Hoeys' early comics in Blab! Magazine to their groundbreaking newest series, Coin-Op. All in all, it's more than twenty short stories and vignettes-about music and film, the comic and the absurd, the past and the future-all sparkling with innovative storytelling and...
15) Thor: Vol. 2
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Thor (2007) volume 2
Publisher
Marvel
Language
English
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In the wake of Ragnarok, and after awakening from the sleep of the gods, Thor has set about restoring Asgard to its former grandeur - making it more magestic, more magnificent than ever. He has revived countless fellow Norse gods.
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The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, focuses on people of African descent who have published significant works in the United States or have worked across various aspects of the comics industry. The book focuses on creators in the field of comics: inkers, illustrators, artists, writers, editors, Black comic historians, Black comic convention creators, website creators, archivists and academics-as well as individuals who may not fit into any category but...
17) Mister Mammoth
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English
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Mister Mammoth is the world's greatest detective and the kind of person you don't forget. Being a seven-foot-tall pacifist who's covered head to toe with an impressive collection of horrific scars makes quite the impression.
But he might be losing his edge. He can't seem to solve his latest case and he's distracted with a strange obsession with a soap opera actress who doesn't even know he exists. His new case holds clues that might finally unlock...
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 4
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in crippling fear. Emily is escorted to the Academy where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, the most powerful Stonekeepers. But as the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, a terrible secret is slowly uncovered--a secret that, if left...
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Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Zomboss plots to take over Halloween with his Lawn of Doom celebration, Crazy Dave perfects his turtle translator, and Patrice rescues Nate after he stumbles upon one of Zomboss's traps.
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English
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Collects Edge of Spider-Verse (2014) #1-5, Edge of Spider-Verse (2022) #1-5, Edge of Spider-Verse (2023) #1-4. Traverse the Spider-Verse with a swarm of Spiders familiar, fresh and flabbergasting! As the vicious Morlun targets wall-crawlers across all realities, Spider-Man Noir returns, Gwen Stacy is Earth-65's Spider-Woman and Peni Parker dons the sensational mech-suit known as SP//dr! When the end of the Spider-Verse looms, Spider-Ham and Araña...