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Check please! volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking (anything that hinders the player with possession of the puck, ranging from a stick check all the way to a physical sweep). And then, there is
...2) Level up
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
3) Marathon
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In graphic novel form, tells the story of Eucles, the Athenian messenger who, in 490 B.C., ran twenty-seven miles from Sparta to Athens, preventing the fall of Greece to the Persian Empire.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1870 Dakota Territory, "Bloody" Chester Kates is in for some surprises when he agrees to burn down the town of Whale, believed to be inhabited by something wicked, in order for the Union Pacific to continue construction of the railroad.
Author
Series
Animal land volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Monoko finds a human baby that can communicate with the animals, he decides to team up with the baby to protect the tanuki pack from vicious wildcats.
8) Who is AC?
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Lin, an average teenage girl who is zapped with magical powers through her cell phone. But just as superpowers can travel through the ether, so can evil. And as Lin starts to get a handle on her powers (while still observing her curfew!) she realizes she has to go head to head with a nefarious villain who spreads his influence through binary code"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and three older brothers, Maggie enrolls in public high school, where interacting with her peers is complicated by the melancholy ghost that has followed her throughout her entire life.
10) Animus
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"The residents of a quiet Japanese neighborhood have slowly come to realize that inauspicious, paranormal forces are at play in the most unlikely of places: the local playground. Two friends, a young boy and girl, resolve to exorcise the evil that inhabit it, including a snaggle-toothed monster. In Animus, a beautiful but spooky young adult graphic novel of everyday hauntings, Antoine Revoy delivers an eerie tale inspired by the Japanese and French...
Author
Series
Animal land volume 2
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned after her parents were killed by Lynxes, Monoko is the only tanuki (raccoon dog) in her village without a family, until she finds a human baby in a river. In Animal Land, a world inhabited solely by animals, this human child is a mystery. This baby is Monoko's only chance at having a family and she is determined to raise the human child as her own. Animal Land is a quirky story about Monoko and the mysterious human baby. -- Amazon.com product...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, and imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Series
Animal land volume 5
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jyu, the third human being in Animal Land, brings dangerous ideas and even-more-dangerous fire. After the village and fields are burned down, Taroza and his friends must start all over again. A trip to see the mysterious "ocean" sounds like just the thing to restore Taroza's spirits, but a meeting with a pack of hyenas will teach him a lesson about finding one's own place in the world.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Eager for glory and heedless of others, Sir Yvain sets out from King Arthur's court and defeats a local lord in battle, unknowingly intertwining his future with the lives of two compelling women: Lady Laudine, the beautiful widow of the fallen lord, and her sly maid Lunette" -- provided by publisher.
18) Nichijou 6
Author
Series
Nichijou volume 1
Publisher
Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mio finally has her dream come true. Ms Nakamura ends up in a nightmare situation after discovering the shinonome lab. The Princess goes on a rampage to recover wood cubes. Mai makes a new friend, and nio makes a heartbreaking discovery that propels her to learn something important about life...
19) A bag of marbles
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his older brother, Maurice, must hide their Jewish heritage and undertake a long and dangerous journey from Nazi-occupied Paris to reach their other brothers in the free zone.
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