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A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to find the perfect pet!Maggie es la rara de la familia. Sus padres están ocupados preparándose para la llegada de un nuevo bebé, y sus hermanitos son gemelos y viven en su propio mundo. A Maggie le encantan los animales y cree que lo que necesita es tener su propio cachorrito, pero cuando va a elegir uno el día de su cumpleaños, le comienza...
2) Pawcasso
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Henry Holt and Company
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2021.
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English
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"Best friends furever! Every Saturday, Pawcasso trots into town with a basket, a shopping list, and cash in paw to buy groceries for his family. One day, he passes eleven-year-old Jo, peering out the window of her house, bored and lonely. Astonished by the sight of an adorable basket-toting dog on his own, Jo follows Pawcasso, and when she's seen alongside him by a group of kids from her school, they mistake her for Pawcasso's owner. Excited to make...
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Scholastic Inc
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From the Eisner-nominated duo behind the instant bestseller Allergic comes a fun new graphic novel about finding your own space... especially when you're in a family of nine!
Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy
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Drawn & Quarterly
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"A vibrant tableau of small-town life as seen through the eyes of a woman returning home from Paris. Juliette boards a train from Paris and comes back to her hometown hoping for a low-key visit with family and old friends. What she finds is anything but. Her sister, a caregiver and mother of two, is carrying on an elaborate affair with a man from a costume shop. Her parents, separated, are now estranged. Father is sure he's coming down with Alzheimer's,...
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Tatsu is tasked with squeezing the locals for money owed to the association—the neighborhood association, that is. But when the former gangster tries to collect, what should be a quick and easy job ends up anything but! All your faves are back in action as the cozy yakuza comedy continues!...Rated:T+ © Kousuke Oono 2018/ SHINCHOSHA Publishing Co., Ltd.
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
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Coretta Scott King Honor author Varian Johnson teams up with rising cartoonist Shannon Wright for a delightful middle-grade graphic novel!Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran — a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress...
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Papercutz
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[2022]
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English
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"Younger sister Maureen has found the perfect replacement for when her sister Wendy is off hanging with her friends or having yucky smoochie time with her boyfriend Mason... another stuffed animal, of course. But as Maureen isn't always too careful with her things, or her sister's things, will this stuffed sister plan become spoiled before it even begins? Plus: more sibling rivalry, more pranks, more bonding time with the sisters who depending on...
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Fanfare/Ponent Mon
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[2021]
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English
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"The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a call informing him of his father's death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi's childhood starts to resurface. The Spring afternoons playing on the floor of his father's barber shop, the fire that ravaged...
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What did you eat yesterday? volume 21
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Vertical
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Two rather long-awaited encounters unfold in this installment of Fumi Yoshinaga's heartwarming slice-of-gay-life series. After fifteen years of living together, Shiro meets Kenji's family for the first time over dinner at a high-end unagi restaurant. Meanwhile, Kenji finally gets to know Kayoko, one of Shiro's few friends, after a chance encounter at the supermarket. A rare argument breaks out, and circumstances both at work and at home continue to...
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Cassava Republic
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbors gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of clandestine love affairs, hidden pregnancy, spiritual quackery and hypocrisy that threatens to destroy the community from within."--Page 4 of cover.
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Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Young Maureen shares a lot with her teenage sister, Wendy: the TV, the couch, games, snacks, pranks, jokes, their mom, their busy cartoonist dad, his art supplies, Wendy's clothes, Wendy's friends, Wendy's boyfriend, Wendy's super private diary... wait, what's going on here?! When THE SISTERS pack their bags to go on a cross-country family vacation to see Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon, they find that their best behavior might leave a bit to...
12) The flamingo
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Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
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Titles Worth Trying: Graphic Novels [Grades K-2]
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Graphic Novels [Grades K-2]
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From a highly acclaimed illustrator comes a stunning graphic novel filled with adventure and wonder about an imaginative girl and her obsession with flamingoes. A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living room, her vacation turns into something fantastical.
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VIZ Media
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[2020]
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English
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"It's not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but The Immortal Dragon, once the fiercest member of the yakuza, is now a married man devoted to supporting his loving wife -- as a househusband. But when the gangster-turned-homemaker needs to make some quick cash to buy her a present, he turns to the only skills he knows... and gets his first part-time job..."--Provided by publisher.
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VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"It's not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but. The Immortal Dragon, once the fiercest member of the yakuza, is now a married man devoted to supporting his loving wife -- as a househusband. But when the gangster-turned-homemaker needs to make some quick cash to buy her a present, he turns to the only skills he knows... and gets his first part-time job... On what begins as just another...
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Tatsu is ambushed by a yakuza with a beef, and there's only one way to settle things--an epic rap battle! but this throwdown is only a warm-up for the buffet yet to come, because when you're the Immortal Dragon, you don't choose the househusband life, it chooses you!"--Provided by publisher.
16) Two Tribes
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English
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In her poignant debut graphic novel inspired by her own life, Emily Bowen Cohen embraces the complexity, meaning, and deep love that comes from being part of two vibrant tribes.
Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee
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Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Listen, Beautiful M�arcia is a gripping story about a family pushed to the brink. M�arcia is a nurse in a hospital near Rio and lives in a favela with her boyfriend, Aluisio, and her daughter, Jaqueline, whom she had very young with another man. Jaqueline, a troubled young adult, makes life difficult for her mother and Aluisio and rebelliously hangs out with members of a neighborhood gang, leading to violent altercations between mother and daughter....
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Bride's story volume 12
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Mr. Smith and his companions begin their journey back, returning the way they came, but with a treasured new addition - or two. Camera in hand, each stop provides new subjects to photograph and cherish, but they must be careful to avoid the moving Russian troops and whispered talk of war..."--Provided by publisher.
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When Jacob is born, Samantha is excited to have a little brother, but Jacob quickly grows into a loud, chaotic, and seemingly unstoppable force. His diagnosis with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is shared by millions of kids, so why does Samantha's unruly homelife feel so uniquely difficult? As Samantha struggles to understand and survive Jacob's daily shenanigans, shared moments of lighthearted fun remind her of the value of loving...
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"All of Tatsu's hustling and networking since leaving the yakuza has earned him an offer he can't refuse--an invitation to run with the women's association, the movers and shakers of his neighborhood. But before he can be initiated, the Immortal Dragon must prove to the board's heavyweights that he truly can hack it as a homemaker. It will be the greatest test of his househusband's skills yet!"--Back cover.
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