Tanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TANCarreras, Hernán
Summary: In this graphic version of Shakespeare's play, teenagers Romeo and Juliet, from rival families in Verona, fall deeply in love, with tragic consequences for both the Montagues and the Capulets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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Summary: Life couldn't be more complicated--or more dangerous--for Peter Parker. After rushing to the aftermath of the Stamford Massacre to offer aid to its victims, Peter travels with Tony Stark to Washington, D.C., and the White House, where the enactment of the Superhuman Registration Act appears imminent. As the Marvel Universe braces for the implications of legislation that will forever change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2007
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CIVStarlin, Jim
Summary: The few superheroes remaining after Thanos destroys half the universe with the Infinity Gauntlet stand with the cosmic forces of space and time, love and hate, and order and chaos in an effort to save what is left of the Earth, but it will take a nearly-forgotten hero from another era to strip Thanos of power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2011
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Hicks, Faith Erin
Summary: It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her mean teammate Lindsay decided to start up with her usual rude comments and today Alix, who usually tries to control her anger, let it finally run free. Alix lashes out and before she knows it, her coach is dragging her off Lindsay, and the invitation to the Canada National Women's U18 Team's summer camp is on the line. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC HICWhedon, Joss
Summary: Dream-team creators Joss Whedon (TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and John Cassaday (Planetary, Captain America) present the explosive, all-new flagship X-Men series, marking a return to classic greatness and the beginning of a brand-new era for the X-Men! Cyclops and Emma Frost re-form the X-Men with the express purpose of "astonishing" the world. But when breaking news regarding the mutant gene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Comics 2004
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Summary: "Tired of being three-apples tall, Poet Smurf gets inspired to write the next Smurfs adventure where the Smurfs are the larger-than-life heroes who interact with a race of miniature people, the Pilus. But does size really matter?"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2023
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Summary: Diana Prince is used to being the best in everything in school, but to beat her foe she will have to rely on her friends to help her combat this newly dangerous menace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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Summary: Determined to run away from her home in the Valley, an area controlled by the tyrannical Night Coats, Alidade stumbles upon a magical hideaway that belongs to the long-lost peacekeepers known as the Mapmakers, and accidentally brings to life a magical creature who is meant to protect the Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2022
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Summary: "When the X-Men are confronted with a deadly vampire threat, Namor takes matters into his own hands on a mission that might bring the entire might of the Marvel Universe's vampires down on their heads--and destroy Atlantis in the process! What lurks in the depths of the ocean where the sun does not reach? What Namor thought was a fable to scare the children of Atlantis comes to terrifying life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2011
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Summary: "Mutants have conquered death! By the grace of the Five, the resurrection protocols of the island nation of Krakoa can bring any of the X-Men's fallen comrades back to life. But such a huge enterprise comes with even huger problems and complications! And when a mutant dies, X-Factor is there to investigate how and why - in order to uphold the rules of reincarnation! Writer Leah Williams...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2020
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Summary: As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber ... at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world ... Luffy and team must figure out a way to get their ship, the Merry Go, to sail up - the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2014
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Summary: "At last, Rinko's found it--the happy, comfortable relationship she's dreamt of. She and Hayasaka-san have moved into an apartment together, and her best friends have wished her well. Everything is going smoothly...until those same best friends show up breathless at her doorstep with the biggest four-alarmer yet: Key's gone missing, and Rinko may be the only one who can find him and bring him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2019
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Summary: Gabby Woods loves a mystery, but is breaking into an abandoned lake house going too far to uncover the truth? Gabby Woods is looking forward to another summer vacation at her family's lake house, even though she would rather bury herself in a mystery novel than make new friends. But soon Gabby meets Paige, a snarky kid from Chicago, and they get caught up in a local mystery: the sudden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: ODY-C, modeled after Homer's Odyssey, is a psychedelic, gender-broke science-fiction epic that tells the story of three legendary warrior-queens returning home after a centuries-long battle. Odyssia, of fair Ithicaa, encounters everything that can get in her way and slow her homecoming -- and realizes with dawning horror that maybe she doesn't want to return. Queen Ene, she who rules the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2016
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Summary: In "An Ultra-Urgent Rescue," Ash helps his friend Lillie rescue her mother from a mysterious Ultra Beast; and in "Buzzwole Battle," Ash takes on his first assignment as an Ultra Guardian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC POKNewsome, Haley
Summary: Based on the hit webcomic, Unfamiliar Volume 2 continues the exciting witchy adventures of Planchette and her new friends, Pinyon, Sun, and Babs. More magical mayhem ensues as Planchette and her new witch friends try to help a ghost bride rest in peace. Join them as they work together to handle a blackmailing Faerie King, a possible new romance, and an overnight camping trip in a profoundly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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Summary: Catwoman is out alone on the prowl one night when KABOOM--an explosion at S.T.A.R. Labs rouses the other girls from their slumber. Star students Batgirl and Lois Lane both know the lab incident is fishy, and they meet later to share clues. But nothing could've prepared Batgirl for what they see next--Batgirl's dad on a date.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FONBecker, Harmony
Summary: "When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BECWalton, Jessica
Summary: Maisie is on her way to her first fancon and she can't wait to meet her idol, an action star who had an above-the-knee amputation, just like Maisie. But then she meets Ollie. Ollie is a cute volunteer working the show, and they geek out about nerd culture, just as much as Maisie does. After spending the day together, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Could Ollie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 WALAkasaka, Aka
Summary: Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first ...?! As leaders of their prestigious academy's student council Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it's lonely at the top ... Luckily for them, they've fallen in love! There's just one problem - they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAGHayashida, Kyū
Summary: Zaha Sanko is the most wanted man in the universe. They say that if you claim his bones, you'll receive anything your heart desires. Having the entire galaxy trying to kill you all the time is kind of a drag when you're just fourteen years old, but Sanko has the mysterious power of darkness on his side, not to mention a talking spaceship and three horribly powerful space weirdos. Together,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAIOrmsbee, Kathryn
Summary: "Eleven-year-old homeschooled Katie experiences the ups and downs of growing up and 6th grade--from bad haircuts and friendship breakups to new experiences, new friends, and a new understanding of her OCD"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ORMHale, Nathan
Summary: Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2021