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Author
Series
City of dragons volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 390L
Language
English
Description
When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real - especially when the egg hatches overnight. The dragon has immense powers that Grace doesn't understand. And that puts them both...
62) Fire force
Author
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]-
Language
English
Description
A mysterious man approaches Shinra, claiming that he has information about the fire that killed Shinra's family twelve years ago.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...
Author
Language
English
Description
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep... They even built humans. Immigrants to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial...
65) New kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 320L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
67) Tokyo revengers
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Watching the news, Hanagaki Takemichi learns his junior-high girlfriend Tachibana Hinata has died. A sudden shove sends him 12 years into the past to face the Tokyo Manji Gang that once made his life hell, which is also responsible for Hinata's death in the present. To save Hinata and change the future, Takemichi must rise to the top of Kanto's most sinister delinquent gang! But things aren't so simple when he befriends the gang's leader, Mikey....
69) Marvel 1602
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
1602, England. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings and at the center of the rising chaos is Virginia Dare, a young girl newly arrived from the New World, guarded by a towering Indian warrior. Can Fury and his allies find a connection to these unusual happenings before the whole...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]-
Language
English
Description
"Paris, France. Ao is a young orphan of Japanese descent who longs to become an artist. Into his life comes Giselle, a mage who is as powerful--and as inhuman--as Thorn. She sees Ao's potential and takes him as her groom. Under Giselle's wing, Ao learns about the wider world and all the colors in it."--
Author
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
"The Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the period's present-day relevance and interest in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War and the Plague; to the curious practices of monks, martyrs and iconoclasts. We'll see how the foundations...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful and historically accurate graphic portayal of Indigenous resistance to the European colonization of the Americas, beginning with the Spanish invasion under Christopher Columbus." "Other events depicted include the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico; the Inca insurgency in Peru from the 1500s to the 1780s; Pontiac and the 1763 Rebellion & Royal Proclamation; Geronimo and the 1860s Seminole Wars; Crazy Horse and the 1877 War on the Plains;...
73) Togari: Vol. 1
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Tobei, a ruthless killer from Japan who has been suffering in Hell for three hundred years, is given a chance for redemption, and armed with the magical wooden sword, Togari, he must destroy 108 malevolent demons in 108 days.
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"The Dragonet Prophecy didn't call for a RainWing dragonet, but Glory knows she's far more powerful than she gets credit for. So it's devastating when she finally finds the rest of her tribe and discovers that RainWings do seem a little lazy. They nap every day, no one really wants to be queen, and worst of all, only a few have noticed that RainWings are disappearing--mysteriously vanishing from the safety of the rain forest without a trace. Glory...
Author
Publisher
Square Enix Manga
Pub. Date
2020-
Language
English
Description
Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn't long for a life of drudgery! Using her wits to break a "curse" afflicting the imperial heirs, Maomao attracts the attentions of the handsome eunuch Jinshi and is promoted to attendant food taster. But Jinshi has other plans for the erstwhile apothecary, and soon Maomao...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
GN 750L
Language
English
Description
When their mom remarries, Molly and her brother, Michael, try to make friends with their new stepsister, Heather. But Heather only wants to make trouble for them. She lies and tattles and misbehaves, and somehow they always get the blame. They know she's trying to drive a wedge between her father and their mother so she can have her father all to herself--and it seems to be working. Then, Heather starts playing in the graveyard behind their new house....
77) Just so happens
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 360L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yumiko was born in Japan but has made a life in London, losing herself in its cosmopolitan bustle. She has a gallery show of her art, a good job, and a good guy she plans to marry. The culture she grew up in seems very far away--until her brother phones with the news that their father has died. Yumiko returns to Tokyo and finds herself immersed in the rituals of death while also plunged into the rituals of life--fish bars, bullet trains, pagodas--as...
78) The walking dead
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2010]-
Language
English
Description
"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise...
79) Black hole
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A chilling graphic novel set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s describes the lives of the area's teenagers, who are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that has descended on the young people of Seattle.
Author
Series
Bone volume 2
Publisher
Graphix/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 380L
Language
English
Description
Now that they are reunited, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone plan to return home, but Phoney Bone risks everything on a get-rich-quick scheme and it all goes wrong. Plus, a war is brewing and Fone Bone helps his new friends to defend their idyllic valley from a formidable enemy.