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1) Ghosts
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahía de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls explore their new home, a neighbor lets them in on a secret: there are ghosts in Bahía de la Luna. Maya is determined to meet one, but Cat wants nothing to do with...
2) El Deafo
Author
Language
English
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2024-2025 Battle of the Books 3rd-4th Grade
Baby-Sitters Club Read Alikes (WPLD)
Celebrate Deaf Culture (BPL-YS)
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Baby-Sitters Club Read Alikes (WPLD)
Celebrate Deaf Culture (BPL-YS)
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Description
Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Language
English
Description
'I Kill Giants' tells the story of Barbara Thorson, an acerbic fifth-grader so consumed with fantasy that she doesn't just tell people that she kills giants with an ancient Norse warhammer - she starts to believe it herself. The reasons for Barbara's troubled behavior are revealed through the course of the book, as she learns to reconcile her fantasy life with the real world.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Mysterious illnesses. Freakish injuries. X-rays revealing something weird that got stuck in your foot. These strange but true stories are among the 24 medical tales illustrated in hilarious fashion by New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Nick Seluk"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Koyou's first visit to the Moon Flower Kingdom capital hasn't exactly been the relaxing trip she expected. Between chasing down pickpockets, running into the enigmatic Stem Sect, and treating a serious case of pneumonia, she can't seem to catch a break! And though she was lured to the capital by her mysterious patron Crown Prince Keiun's promise of a smorgasbord of muscles large enough to satisfy her medical curiosity, it soon becomes clear that...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Joining a scientific expedition gives Max and the flock a perfect opportunity to distance themselves from the heated debate over their future, but frostbite isn't the only danger in the Antarctic! A powerful figure in the underworld has promised the super-human kids to the highest bidder--and he has the robotic army to ensure the goods are delivered! ...
7) Displacement
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the next installment of her graphic memoir series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book's watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her grandfather's WWII memoir, which...
Author
Publisher
Blair
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Al vacunarse contra la Covid, los niños pueden hacer su parte para ayudar al planeta a ponerse bien y parar la pandemia." --contraportada.
"Kids can do their part to help heal the world and stop the pandemic by getting a COVID vaccine. After months of wearing masks, washing hands, and social distancing, kids have another way to help during the COVID-19 pandemic: they need to get a vaccine. With one little prick, kids can get protection from the...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
A romantic retelling of a classic fairy tale about a beautiful herbalist and a lovestruck prince. Shirayuki is an herbalist famous for her naturally bright-red hair, and the prince of Tanbarun wants her all to himself! The prince from the neighboring kingdom, Zen, rescues her from her plight, and thus begins their love story. Shirayuki and Ryu are back in Lilias to work as herbalists. Shirayuki wastes no time diving into her new assignment,...
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused...
12) Idol dreams: 1
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chance at love and success. When word gets out that she's a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could return to the time when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to when she was 15. Now [she] is determined to pursue everything she missed out on all those years ago-- including becoming a star!"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"[This book] is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's beautiful and touching graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's journey through loss. Hart uses the graphic form to articulate his and his wife's on-going search for meaning in the aftermath of Rosalie's death, exploring themes of grief, hopelessness, rebirth,...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the faraway lands of the Moon Flower Kingdom, people have long relied on healing methods shrouded in superstition with dubious results. When the young Prince Keiun goes in search of more reliable remedies, his party is attacked by mysterious assailants, and he ends up witnessing a never-before-seen lifesaving procedure that shocks him to the core. Even more surprising, the one who performs this medical feat is a beautiful, yet slightly odd, teenage...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Publication Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Manhattan Projects is a comic series that started in 2012 from Image Comics. It concerns an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas.
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Trying to establish a medical practice in the capital has proven to be trickier than performing surgery! Yet as Koyou attempts to get things off the ground, an unexpected encounter with a drunken, lecherous geezer turns out to be a fortuitous next step. Then later, the young doctor finds she's got another challenge on her hands and this time it involves acquiring a critical medical instrument. After all, how exactly does someone make a hypodermic...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Publication Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Manhattan Projects is a comic series that started in 2012 from Image Comics. It concerns an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas.
18) Braincomix
Author
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press/Graphic Mundi
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the complexities of the human brain in graphic novel format"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Determined to get to the bottom of a mysterious pandemic, Keiun leads a top-secret mission into the neighboring Plum Province to investigate rumors of a "mountain curse" that has already claimed many lives. Discovering it was a contagious disease all along, Keiun also uncovers a scheme to conceal the spreading sickness as well as the Stem Sect's hidden movements in the shadows. Left with no choice, Keiun uses the last ace left up his sleeve..."--Back...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Koyou rolls up her sleeves to perform yet another revolutionary medical procedure--an appendectomy. But even though she's armed with incredible knowledge and the tools to do it, Koyou is having a hard time convincing people to let her to cut someone open. With the life of a high-profile bureaucrat on the line, Keiun once again stakes his reputation and more on Koyou's skills. Will this first-time operation be a success for the young doctor? Or will...


