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1) Illegal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...
3) Sisters
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Originally published as The October Faction #1-6.
The October Faction details the adventures of retired monster-hunter Frederick Allan and his family... which include a thrill-killer, a witch, and a warlock. Because sometimes crazy is the glue that binds a family together.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Bottomless Belly Button is a comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce. But the reason for splitting isn't itself shocking: they're "just not in love any more." The announcement sparks a week long Loony family reunion at Maggie and David's creepy (and possibly haunted) beach house. The eldest child,...
Author
Series
Locke and Key volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode encounter a sinister creature in Keyhouse who does everything in its power to unlock the mansion's mysterious doors, which transform all who dare to enter.
8) Finger guns
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two troubled teenagers discover they can manipulate emotions by firing Finger Guns. There will be laughs. There will be tears. There will be uncomfortable teen feelings and angst. Oh yeah... and chaos. So much chaos."--Provided by publisher.
10) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Series
Sunny volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Follow the journey of two young adults, Joshua and Claire, each individually shaped by the day the sky went dark, but drawn to each other because of it. Coming of age in this new landscape, they will be forced to confront and challenge notions of identity, guilt, and survival as the darkness grows around them. When fear threatens to envelop all hope they have left, the two discover that love, family, and finding the true light in a world seemingly...
12) Monica
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
106 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story--actually, stories--of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined...
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English
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Who Will Make the Pancakes collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years — roughly contemporaneously with the author’s own journey as a mother— wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love,...
14) Hey, kiddo
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Language
English
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Description
"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
64 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Binky, a house cat that believes he is a space cat, is dismayed when Gracie, a too-perfect foster cat, comes to live at his space station, and decides to investigate to learn the truth about this unwelcome guest.
16) Rusty Brown
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rusty Brown" is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of six complete consciousnesses on a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, "Rusty Brown" literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Locke children have grown used to the magical keys discovered within their home, Keyhouse, and the tragedy associated with them, but they do not realize the danger they are in from Lucas Caravaggio, alias Zack Wells, whose quest for the key to the black door is relentless.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
63 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Graphic novel adaptation of Johann David Wyss' story relating the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island abundantly inhabited by animal and plant life.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
64 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Space cat Binky, having been promoted, and Captain Gracie are surprised when their new cadet is not a kitten and they must figure out what is going on before an alien attack.
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