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Teen Nonfiction - Display (Teen)
T 304.873 H11
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T 304.873 H11
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Teen Nonfiction - South Wing Basement
T 304.873 H11
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T 304.873 H11
1 available
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A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...
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Teen Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Basement
T GN Yang
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T GN Yang
2 available
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
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Nino Arisugawa, a girl who loves to sing, experiences her first heart-wrenching goodbye when her beloved childhood friend, Momo, moves away. And after Nino befriends Yuzu, a music composer, she experiences another sad parting! Both boys promised Nino that they would find her one day through her singing, so she holds on to that hope and continues to reach out with her voice. Now in high school, Nino serendipitously reunites with Yuzu, but she yearns...
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn't long for a life of drudgery! Using her wits to break a "curse" afflicting the imperial heirs, Maomao attracts the attentions of the handsome eunuch Jinshi and is promoted to attendant food taster. But Jinshi has other plans for the erstwhile apothecary, and soon Maomao...
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Teen Nonfiction - South Wing Basement
T 741.5973 T869
2 available
T 741.5973 T869
2 available
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King Grey is a remarkable ruler with a prosperous reign, and yet...opulence and success cannot bury emptiness and solitude. His time as king, however, comes to an abrupt end, and he reincarnates as Arthur Leywin--a baby born in a world of magic and monsters. Equipped with memories of his previous life and the desire to protect the newfound warmth surrounding him, Art begins his journey of becoming a strong warrior once again. Sword training, mana...
7) Cardboard
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Teen Nonfiction - South Wing Basement
T 741.5973 T255
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T 741.5973 T255
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After Cam's father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday, they fashion it into a man that comes to life, but things spin out of control when a bully steals a scrap of the cardboard to create creatures that disobey his orders and multiply into an army.
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Teen Nonfiction - South Wing Basement
T 741.5973 Uk1
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T 741.5973 Uk1
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Y'all... I might not be ready for this. I 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's nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking. And then, there is Jack... You see the problem.
9) Coraline
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10 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Teen Nonfiction - South Wing Basement
T 741.5973 R916
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T 741.5973 R916
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Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
10) Displacement
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Teen Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Basement
T GN Hughes
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T GN Hughes
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Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
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Several millenia after humans were petrified by a flash of light, high schoolers Taiju and his friend Senku awaken and begin working on how to use science to reawaken human civilization.
12) Dragon hoops
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Teen Nonfiction - South Wing Basement
T 741.5973 Y163
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T 741.5973 Y163
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Gene understands stories - comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him "Stick" and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making....
13) Drama
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3 copies, 49 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 49 people are on the wait list.
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Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
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Teenager June must figure out how to exist in a world where she is the only one left with a heart--and whether she wants to keep hers at all.
Not that long ago, the Scientist discovered that all sadness, anxiety, and anger disappeared when you removed your heart. And that's all it took. Soon enough, the hospital had lines out the door--even though the procedure numbed the good feelings, too. Everyone did it. Everyone except high school student June....
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Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther,...
16) The heart hunter
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Teen Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Basement
T GN George
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T GN George
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On the cursed island of Envecor, everyone is doomed to wear their heart outside their bodies, and are immortal--unable to die, to change, to have children-- until they find their soul mate. Paired soul mates are then turned mortal, freed from the curse, and able to leave. But all fairy tales have a dark side: those who don't want to lose their immortality pay "Heart Hunters" to find their soul mates and kill them so they may remain immortal. Psyche,...
17) Huda F are you
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Teen Nonfiction - Display (Teen Beehive)
T 741.5973 F142
4 available
T 741.5973 F142
4 available
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Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not...
18) I kill giants
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Teen Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Basement
T GN Kelly
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T GN Kelly
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Tells the story of Barbara Thorson, an acerbic fifth-grader so consumed with fantasy that she doesn't just tell people that she kills giants with an ancient Norse warhammer -- she starts to believe it herself. This book reveals the reasons for Barbara's troubled behavior, as she learns to reconcile her fantasy life with the real world.
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"Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family's first computer, she escapes into a thrilling new world where she meetings Samir, a like-minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from home with her. After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind, Richard receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to 'Evol BBS,' a dial-in...
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Teen Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Basement
T GN Insomniacs
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T GN Insomniacs
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Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami is cranky in class and unpopular with his classmates. He discovers that the school observatory, once used by the now-defunct astronomy club, may be the perfect place for a nap--but he's not along. Fellow insomniac Isaki Magari is willing to share the observatory with Nakami, and a friendship between the two begins as they bond over the most unlikely things. Dark rumors about what befell the members of the astronomy...