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1) Squished
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"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 and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own...
2) Black butler
Author
Series
Black butler volume 32
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Just a stone's throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom and its master, one Ciel Phantomhive. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce, Queen Victoria's faithful servant ... and a slip of a twelve-year-old boy. Fortunately, his loyal butler, Sebastian, is ever at his side, ready to carry out the young master's wishes. And whether Sebastian is called to save a dinner party gone awry or probe the dark...
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Series
Delicious in dungeon volume 13
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2017-
Language
English
Description
After getting his sister devoured by a dragon and losing all their supplies in a failed dungeon raid, Lyos and his party are determined to save his sister before she gets digested. Completely broke and having to resort to eating monsters as food, they meet a dwarf who introduces them to the world of dungeon meshi, delicious cuisines made from ingredients such as the flesh of giant bats, walking mushrooms, and screaming mandrakes.
4) Ghosts
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis. Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, but Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
5) Saga
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 11
Language
English
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"The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old world"--P. [4] of cover (v. 1).
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Series
Princess Jellyfish volume 9
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2016-
Language
English
Description
"Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She's loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately...
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English
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Overview: A deluxe collector's edition of the phenomenally bestselling The Kite Runner, filled with striking and memorable photographs that bring Khaled Hosseini's compelling story to life. Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has shipped over four million copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy through the horrific rule of the Taliban, The Kite...
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Series
Attack on Titan volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming human-kind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about change everything''--Cover.
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Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 5
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Emily survived the chaos of the Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone. With it, the Elf King forges new amulets that will give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor. Emily and her friends lead the soldiers of the Cielis Guard in a fight to stop him, but Max stands in their way. And when she seeks information from the Voice of her Amulet, she discovers that the Voice is much more sinister than she ever could...
10) Measuring up
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food."--Provided by publisher.
12) Maximum Ride
Author
Series
Maximum Ride manga volume 9
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'-- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-- are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their youngest member. Now it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but...
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Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"WEIRD?! Nothing weird EVER happens in The Bad Guys. Like, you would NEVER see a chain-saw monster confronting a velociraptor who has eaten an elderly piranha, or the disturbing antics of a deranged dentist running amok with an oversized drill. NOPE. None of that nonsense here. So relax and be entirely unsurprised by the Bad Guys' next adventure!"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime...
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Series
Toilet-bound Hanako-kun volume 19
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2020-
Language
English
Description
Hanako-san, Hanako-san ... are you there?" At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom ... but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined!...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Cary Library's Best Books of 2023 - For Children
Dedham's Winter Holiday Gift Guide 2023
Great Graphic Novels
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Dedham's Winter Holiday Gift Guide 2023
Great Graphic Novels
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"A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkward middle school years and the trip to Europe that changed his life. Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a good kid doesn't stop him from being bullied and feeling like he's invisible, which is why Dan has low expectations when his parents...
17) Fairy tail
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Series
Fairy tail. Main series volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Lucy is a young, rebellious celestial wizard with a dream : to join Fairy Tail, the world's most rambunctious and powerful magical guild! When she happens to meet one of Fairy Tail's top wizards, he turns out to be not quite what she expected: a slob traveling with a flying cat. But the promise of adventure is real, and together they escape from pirates and a devious magician! Their next task: to steal a book from the evil wizard-killing Duke Everlue,...
18) Kaiju no. 8
Author
Series
Kaiju no. 8 volume 10
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Language
English
Description
"Kafka wants to clean up kaiju, but not literally! Will a sudden metamorphosis stand in the way of his dream?"--
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Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins when the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn. In Out From Boneville, volume 1 of this 9-book epic, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their...
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English
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[Lasell] Arab American Heritage/AAPI Heritage Month
[Lasell] Graphic Works Display
[Lasell] Graphic Works Master List
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[Lasell] Graphic Works Display
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"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love." --
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