Ostertag, Molly
Summary: "Middle school is a dungeon ... At least, that's how Jess sees it. Luckily, she and her best friend Olivia know how to escape into the sprawling worlds of their own imaginations. The two friends have always loved making up stories, first with little kid games of make-believe, and more recently with the fantasy roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. When they play, Olivia runs the game as Dungeon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 OSTBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again. But they don't. This is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BREUnderhill, Scout
Summary: "Four adorable dogs are tail-waggingly excited to play their favorite role-playing game in DnDoggos: Get the Party Started, the middle grade graphic novel debut from online comic creator Scout Underhill. They've picked their characters and favorite dice, and are ready to set off on the adventure their game master Magnus has created for them. Pickles, a rough and tumble fighter; Tonka, a playful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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Summary: "In a philosophical fantasy adventure, warriors living through a role playing game must learn the difference between diversion and escape as they try to break the cycle of a never-ending quest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BROKoops, Victoria
Summary: "IRL, Darcy has just moved to the small prairie town of Unity Creek with her two moms. It feels like she left everything good behind in the city. She misses her tabletop gaming friends and her boyfriend -- and is horrified by the homophobia her family faces in their new home. Then she meets kind, quiet Art, who invites her to join his Dungeons & Dragons game. Art is mostly happy fading into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KOOFollmuth, Alexene Farol
Summary: Viola Reyes is annoyed. Her painstakingly crafted tabletop game campaign was shot down, her best friend is suggesting she try being more "likable," and her school's star running back Jack Orsino is the most lackadaisical Student Body President she's ever seen, which makes her job as VP that much harder. Vi's favorite escape from the world is the MMORPG Twelfth Knight, but online spaces aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOLMorris, Brittney
Summary: An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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Summary: "Isaac is a shy boy with OCD, but one day at school he meets new friends who introduce him to role-playing games, which lead him on a journey of self-discovery and growth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: Offered a dream job escorting a teenage heir on a fabulous moon role-playing vacation, Scotty Griffin, a personal security specialist, becomes embroiled in a violent reality game involving armed terrorists, psychological tests, and a large audience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVCole, Frank
Summary: When Lucas Silver, who is trying to run away, and his friend Miles and two girls they know, Jasmine and Vanessa, step out of Hob and Bogie's Olde Curiosity Shoppe, they discover that they have agreed to play a match of Champion's Quest, a role-playing game--played from inside the game with goblins, trolls, witches, and a three-headed monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLFormato, Jaime
Summary: Twelve-year-old Riley steps out of her older brother's protective shadow and behind the Dungeon Master's screen, running D&D campaigns for her friends and learning to be independent and self-reliant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FORWeis, Margaret
Summary: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman return to the unforgettable world of the New York Times bestselling Dragonlance series as a new heroine--desperate to restore her beloved father to life--sets off on a quest to change time. Destina Rosethorn--as her name implies--believes herself to be a favored child of destiny. But when her father dies in the War of the Lance, she watches her carefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEITheroux, Marcel
Summary: When the discovery of The Dungeon Master's Guide draws him into a colorful new world, ten-year-old Jun-su, with the help of an English-speaking teacher, deciphers the rules of this famous role-playing game, which sweeps him away from the harsh reality of a famine-stricken North Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THEWitwer, Michael
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Vivian Van Tassel is angry: angry about her mom's mysterious and sudden death; at her dad for uprooting their lives in Chicago to move to the sleepy, creepy town of Midnight Lake; at the bullies who seem to be drawn to her no matter how much she tries to keep her head down...but mostly angry at herself for causing bad things to happen wherever she goes. When a class assignment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WITNijkamp, Marieke
Summary: Friends Finn, Liva, Maddy, Carter, and Ever begin a farewell round of the game they have played for three years, but each is hiding secrets and the game itself seems to turn against them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2020
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Summary: John Chu is a "sherpa"--a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUFYardley, Cathy
Summary: "An unapologetically grumpy 48-year-old recluse, Maggie, to appease her college-aged son, joins an online gaming guild where she forms an online connection with Otter, a 50-year-old optimist, but when they take their relationship into real life, things do not go as planned"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake Romance 2023