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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A magnificent narrative inspired by a true survival story that asks universal questions about a young girl’s coming of age story, her identity, her passions, and her first loves.
At the Sèvres Children’s Home outside Paris, Rachel Cohen has discovered her passion—photography. Although she hasn’t heard from her parents in months, she loves the people at her school, adores capturing what she sees in pictures, and tries not to worry too much...
3) Body music
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set in the languid, European-like neighborhoods on Montreal, Body Music is a beautiful and moving meditation on love and desire in its varied forms between women, between men, between women and men and gender non-conformists alike all varying in age and race. In twenty-one separate vignettes, Body Music is an exhilarating and passionate graphic novel about what it means to fall in love, and what it means to be alive. -- back cover.
4) Always Never
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Series
Language
English
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Description
It is never too late to love someone loudly. After forty years of being madly in love, Ana and Zeno are finally retiring and giving their romance a chance to bloom while they both still have time left. A unique but relatable love story told in reverse, with each chapter stepping further back through the decades of touch and go courting, showing both the heartbreaking moments that kept the two lovers apart and the beautiful moments that kept their...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An artist's unique take on the museum experience: peoplewatching Author and artist David Prudhomme meanders through the Louvre, feeling as if in the panels of a giant comic while he himself is creating his own is this graphic novel. In this institution, all manner of people from all over the world rub elbows quietly. So Prudhomme decides to cruise through the museum, not to look at the world famous art, but to observe the people and their interaction...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comesc crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant tableau of small-town life as seen through the eyes of a woman returning home from Paris. Juliette boards a train from Paris and comes back to her hometown hoping for a low-key visit with family and old friends. What she finds is anything but. Her sister, a caregiver and mother of two, is carrying on an elaborate affair with a man from a costume shop. Her parents, separated, are now estranged. Father is sure he's coming down with Alzheimer's,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A graphic novel version of the story of an aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert where he encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
Author
Series
Sardine in outer space volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sardine is a strong character from outer space and she embarks on humorous adventures such as exploring the Internet, the music of the spheres, and the world of film.
Author
Series
Tib and Tumtum volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In a prehistoric era, Tib, a boy who is made fun of for his birthmark and his clumsiness, makes friends with Tumtum, a big, playful red dinosaur only he ever sees. When Tumtum saves the tribe's kids from a pack of hungry wolves, the shaman decides it's time to welcome a dinosaur into the tribe"--
Author
Series
Sardine in outer space volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sardine, Little Louie, and Captain Yellow Shoulder have to keep the evil Supermuscleman from using the device to control children.
Author
Series
Dance class volume 3
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2012, c2009
Language
English
Description
Julie, Lucy, and Alia are best friends who take dance but they have to balance their studies and their extracurricular activities better.