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1) Fungirl
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Fungirl is a hapless (hopeless) mess of a woman crashing through life, leaving mayhem in her wake. Her oblivious antics infuriate her roommate-slash-ex-girlfriend and threaten any opportunity for employment, but surely Fungirl will figure it all out... eventually. A love letter to that chaotic friend with a heart of gold!
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Winner of the 2023 Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Fiction Literature
Winner of the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature
A 2021 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
A 2021 School Library Best Books of the Year
A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan.
Living in a new country is no walk in the
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Following the epic adventures of Adora, a brave young woman of color who lives in a fantastical world with underground pirates, ghosts, and a mysterious force called "The Distance" which threatens to destroy it all and only Adora can stop it"--
4) Bubble
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the podcast of the same name and set in the fictional city of Fairhaven, follow the human Morgan as she grows her occasional recreational killing of Imps into a full-time job within her employer's new gig economy called Huntr, taking on monsters, Brush-turned citizens and all manner of mutants from the surrounding alien wilderness known as the Brush.
5) Dreamin' sun
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Shimana Kameko lives in a home where she feels she doesn't belong. Her mother is dead, her father has remarried, and her six-month-old baby brother takes up everyone's attention. Kameko skips school and runs away to a nearby park where she literally stumbles over a mysterious man in a kimono. The stranger, Fujiwara Taiga, offers Kameko a place to stay--on three conditions. The first condition is that Kameko tell him why she ran away from home. The...
6) Idol dreams
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Language
English
Description
"At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chances at love and success. When word gets out that she's a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could turn back time to when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to when she was 15. Now Chikage is determined to pursue everything she missed out on all those years ago--including becoming a star!" -- Provided by publisher....
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a dark fantasy retelling of "The Little Mermaid," a young girl barely escapes an encounter with a deadly mermaid, and the two quickly form a romantic bond that threatens all of their social ties on land and beneath the sea.--Publisher.
8) Always human
Author
Series
Always human volume 1
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the near-future, people use technology to give the illusion of all kinds of body modifications-but some people have "Egan's Syndrome," a highly sensitive immune system that rejects these "mods" and are unable to use them. Those who are affected maintain a "natural" appearance, reliant on cosmetics and hair dye at most to help them play with their looks. Sunati is attracted to Austen the first time she sees her and is drawn to what she assumes is...
Author
Series
Snotgirl volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Who is Lottie Person? Is she a gorgeous, fun-loving social media star with a perfect life or a gross, allergy-ridden mess? Enter a world of snot, blood, and tears in this first collection from New York Times Best Seller Bryan Lee O'Malley (Scott Pilgrim, Seconds) and dazzling newcomer Leslie Hung!
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Language
English
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Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes this irresistible treat, a charming and jaunty graphic novel, based on story snippets peppered throughout a number of her books. Originally mentioned in It's in His Kiss-one of the Bridgerton novels which inspired the smash Netflix series Bridgerton-Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron is finally told here in its entirety for the first time.
A madcap romantic adventure, Miss Butterworth and...
Author
Series
Princess Jellyfish volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She's loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately...
15) Freshman year
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles the constant angst, hilarity, and self-doubt enmeshed in the experience of going away to college--all through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old burgeoning comics artist"--
Author
Publisher
Action Lab Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Standing before a jury of nine gods, Amarosa pleads for a chance to risk her life and gain entry to the Wishing Well where she will fight her way through nine trials to claim her prize: a single wish that will save her terminally ill brother. Though she has some help, what she learns about herself here in the first four trials may be her only chance of survival.
17) Age matters: 1
Author
Publisher
WEBTOON Unscrolled
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"She's a hopeless romantic who's turning 30 and is not super happy about it. He's a reclusive billionaire who's hired her to be his assistant--and he's not happy about that either. Together they rewrite the rules of friendship, love, work, and the best way to clean someone's apartment"--
18) After the rain
Author
Language
English
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Description
The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings and David Brame's graphic novel collaboration uses bold...
19) Rave
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Author Jessica Campbell (XTC69) uses frankness and dark humour to articulate Lauren's burgeoning crisis of faith and sexuality. She captures teenage antics and banter with astute comedic style, simultaneously skewering bullies, a culture of slut-shaming, and the devastating impact of religious zealotry. Rave is an instant classic, a coming of age story about the secret spaces young women create and the wider social structures that fail them."--
Author
Series
Girl genius novels volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become all-out war, Mad Science rules the world... with mixed success. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay was a student with trouble concentrating and rotten luck. Dedicated to her studies but unable to build anything that actually worked, she seemed destined for a lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But then the University was overthrown, and Agatha was taken aboard the giant airship...