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2) Alterations
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fans of Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese and Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward, this funny yet poignant middle-grade coming-of-age story highlights the struggle of feeling invisible while yearning to be seen by all.
Kevin Lee is having a really bad week. Although he lives in a crowded Toronto apartment above the family's alterations and dry-cleaning store, he mostly goes unnoticed. Dad has been MIA since the divorce....
Kevin Lee is having a really bad week. Although he lives in a crowded Toronto apartment above the family's alterations and dry-cleaning store, he mostly goes unnoticed. Dad has been MIA since the divorce....
3) Hotel REM
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rembrandt Somner enthusiastically runs his hotel by balancing his unwieldy co-workers and wild guests, but a demanding celebrity guest threatens to be the rude awakening that ruins everything.
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, Clarion Books, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Treasure fever has hit Winkelfuss! A recently discovered map alleges that many years earlier, Cap'n Gnawface the Meanie buried her loot somewhere on the island, but anyone tries to find it will be cursed by pirate ghosts. A "golden smudge" will appear on the cursed--and then the treasure-seeker will be ghost-napped! Certain it's just a silly story, the greedy residents go after the booty, but then they start waking up with the golden smudge...and...
Author
Series
Marshmallow martians volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Four curious martians travel to an amusement park on Earth in search of the smelliest smells to bring back to Planet Moop.
6) Shark party
Author
Series
Shark princess volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Princesses Kitana and Mack learn a mysterious deep ocean shark has not been invited to the shark party, the two set off on an adventure to invite her.
Author
Series
Ham Helsing volume 3
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While being snowed in at the old Helsing manor, Ham has his hands full trying to keep his friends safe from his very much alive legendary monster hunter dad.
Author
Publisher
Design Studio Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Synopsis: The ultimate guide to visual storytelling! How to make the audience "feel" the story while they are "reading" the story. Using his experiences from working in the comic book industry, movie studios and teaching, Marcos introduces the reader to a step-by-step system that will create the most successful storyboards and graphics for the best visual communication. After a brief discussion on narrative art, Marcos introduces us to drawing and...
10) School day drama
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With seemingly nothing in common, classmates Chi-Chi, a chicken who likes cheese puffs and cheerleading, and Pey-Pey, a penguin who likes pirates and pogo sticks, become the best of friends.
Author
Series
Bizard volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A bear reluctantly becomes a wizard when a magic wand crashes into his head, and he uses his powers to protect the forest animals from an evil wolf.
12) Call me Adnan
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Adnan dreams of making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis championship, but when tragedy strikes his family, Adnan loses his passion for table tennis and must learn to channel his grief and heal.
13) The magma cup
Author
Series
Sort of super volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eleven year-old superhero Wyatt Flynn and his little sister Adeline go to Camp Igneous, where they secretly explore a mysterious volcano which may be a key piece in the puzzle of what happened to their missing mother.
14) Museum sleepover
Author
Series
Marshmallow martians volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Marshmallow Martians spend a night at a museum searching for a unique object to take back to Planet Moop"--
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"School is tough. School is scary. School is EERIE. No one knows this better than Davis and Emily. But they're not scared of school because of tough tests or merciless vice-principals. No, they're scared because their teacher wants her students to present the class with the spookiest, most chilling stories they can think of"--
16) Shakti
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fierce, feminist, and fun middle grade fantasy graphic novel about a twelve-year-old Indian American girl named Shakti who must learn the power of her ancestral magic if she wants to save her family and town from a dangerous curse. Written by Stonewall Honor Book recipient and Lambda Literary Fellow SJ Sindu and illustrated by Nabi H. Ali.
Shakti is used to being the new girl at school. She and her two moms have moved
...Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]-
Language
English
Description
"Meet Cindy and Biscuit: a girl and her dog. People (even her mum!) keep telling Cindy she's weird, that she's got a morbid, overactive imagination-but if that was true, why would she keep encountering all these monsters, ghosts, and aliens in real life? Watch Cindy and her fearless four-legged best friend get in to all kinds of trouble, as their little coastal town seems to have a preponderance of werewolves, undead mermaids, dimensional portals,...
18) Lo and behold
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting with who she's always been"--
19) Next stop
Author
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Pia is a soft-spoken middle schooler whose life is turned upside down after the loss of her younger brother, followed by her parents' decision to move to a new town. In an effort to get her mind off of the troubles at home, Pia goes on a bus tour with a family friend, stopping at weird and wacky roadside attractions. The final destination: a mysterious underground lake. The locals say it has magical powers; Pia won't admit she believes in it, but...
20) Out there
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Julia goes on a self-discovery-filled road trip with her UFO-obsessed father to chase a meteor shower"--
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