Saracino, Luciano
Summary: In this graphic novel adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic, the ex-convict Jean Valjean strives to build a new life in nineteenth century Paris and protect his adopted daughter, Cosette, but he is pursued by the fanatical police inspector Javert who does not believe in redemption--until it is too late for both of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Summary: Old MacDonald loves his phone, he thinks it works a charm, Now all the animals have phones too, how will he run his farm? Sing along as Old MacDonald's farm falls into chaos! How will the animals learn to balance their screen time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILSummary: From Nintendo and Illumination comes a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros. Featuring Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach, boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love this full-color storybook inspired by the film!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARMan-Kong, Mary
Summary: "Meet Mario, Luigi, and all their friends as they battle Bowser and the bad guys!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MANKuper, Peter
Summary: Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master's dark humor, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper's style deliberately evokes Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel, contemporaries of Kafka whose wordless novels captured much of the same claustrophobia and mania as Kafka's tales....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KUPRitchie, Alison
Summary: "One of Aesop's best-loved fables gets a contemporary twist in this retelling with simple text and bright, graphic artwork. Ingenious die-cut holes let you turn the page to send Hare racing ahead, then, slowly and steadily, move Tortoise toward a win."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RITMcKinney, L. L. (Leatrice L.)
Summary: "In this empowering Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and, as his dark plan unfolds, must find a way to save this woman she's come to love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCKHarper, Benjamin
Summary: When the young witch, Princess Swampelina, loses her wand in the bog, a beautiful (ugh!) butterfly offers to retrieve it if she will be his friend, but after avoiding him the princess soon finds the butterfly helpful and even rather fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARScieszka, Jon
Summary: "The classic nursery rhymes we know and love--upside-down, backward, in gibberish, and fresh out of bounds--as only Jon Scieszka could stage them. Mother knows best, but sometimes a little nonsense wins the day. Inspired by Dadaism's rejection of reason and rational thinking, and in cahoots with Blanche Fisher Wright's The Real Mother Goose, this anthology of absurdity unravels the fabric of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.8 SCIJama-Everett, Ayize
Summary: "The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture. In this futuristic reinterpretation, author Ayize Jama-Everett and illustrator Tristan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JAMGrabenstein, Chris
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC GRABeard, Hilary
Summary: A young adult adaptation of Tim Madigan's The Burning, which discusses the circumstances of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6 BEAEmmons, Scott
Summary: Bings wants to know what money is and why we use it. His questions lead him from a bank to a tour of a successful lemonade stand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN EMMCantor, Jillian
Summary: When Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson is found in the woods nearby. Then a diamond hairpin is found in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of the millionaire. Daisy Buchanan once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANHenthorn, Kenda
Summary: "As three tired tots settle into bed for the night, the sheep who should be helping them count down to sleep kick up their hooves instead in an energetic dance performance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HENSummary: A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARLee, Erika
Summary: "This book is a stirring account of the ordinary people and extraordinary acts that made Asian America and the young people who are remaking America today"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018