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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...
4) 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.
5) 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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English
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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...
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Series
Olympians volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
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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English
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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...
9) 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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Series
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
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Animal Stories
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English
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What separates us from animals? What connects us? Award-winning cartoonists Peter and Maria Hoey probe these mysteries across six surreal and interconnected stories. After tremendous acclaim for their series Coin-Op Comics, two brilliant creators present their first graphic novel: a menagerie of wild tales. Pushing the boundaries of their dazzling and unique narrative style, Animal Stories weaves together six short stories exploring the mysterious...
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English
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This is the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination.
Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, Jeremy Dauber whizzes listeners through the progress of comics in the twentieth century and beyond. Follow the history from the golden age of newspaper comic strips-Krazy Kat, Yellow Kid, Dick Tracy-to the...
15) Kiss number 8
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First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It's everything she hoped high school would be. until all of a sudden, it's not. Her dad is hiding something big--so big it could tear her family apart. And that's just the beginning of her problems: Mads is starting...
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Graphix, un sello de Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A new comics collection featuring Big Nate, the star of the bestselling book series and the Emmy-nominated animated TV series on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon. With all your favorite characters providing laughs on every page, this all-new collection of Big Nate comics means business!
What's middle school without a crisis? Sixth-grader Nate Wright would love to find out, but the emergencies are piling up fast. A gang of eighth-graders steals Nate's...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
Superman is going through some changes. First, there's his new "solar flare" power, which releases tremendous amounts of energy but leaves him functionally human--fragile, vulnerable, prone to hangovers--for 24 hours. But an even bigger change is coming. A new company called Hordr has sprung up, and its business is secrets. If you have one that you want to keep hidden, Hordr can control you--and no one has a bigger secret than Clark Kent. Now, Hordr...
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English
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"Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Shannon Wheeler tackles the 140-character president. For the first time, Donald Trump's most revealing tweets are collected, curated, and transformed into razor-sharp cartoons, offering a subversive and illuminating glimpse into the mind of the most divisive political figure of our time. Whether you love him or hate him, this take on Trump will help you come to grips with the man and his ideas thanks to Wheeler's signature...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer, the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper, seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf, 'Jeff' was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides. In [this story], a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist Backderf...