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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they will remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.
3) Hey, kiddo
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Language
English
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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 with...
4) The meeting
Author
Series
Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Having lost their home, a fox and her daughter move in with a badger and his three children, but when the youngsters throw a big party hoping to prove that they are incompatible, their plan backfires.
Author
Series
(Michael Jay),Kit Feeny volume 2
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Kit Feeny, a young bear, enters into a competition with his sisters to see who can give their mother the best birthday present.
7) Monica
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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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...
8) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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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...
9) Illegal
Author
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...
10) Cape
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Soon after being recruited by the mysterious Mrs. Boudica to join a secret military intelligence operation, Josie, Mae, and Akiko discover their superhero abilities and use them to thwart a Nazi plot to steal the ENIAC computer.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl. Then one night, Morgan is saved from...
14) Level up
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Intrusos
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Un escaparate de las posibilidades del medio de novela gráfica y una irónica exploración de pérdida, ambición creativa, identidad y dinámica familiar.
Author
Series
Amelia rules! book volume 6
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Amelia Louise McBride's eleventh birthday party is fabulous, but soon her friends are fighting all the time, she gets a terrible report card, and when she summons the courage to tell a boy how she feels about him, she learns why it is called a "crush."
17) Mike's mystery
Author
Series
Boxcar children graphic novels volume 5
Language
English
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Description
The Aldens set out to prove the innocence of their old friend Mike who has been accused of starting a fire.
Author
Series
Ariol volume 1
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ariol is an everyday tween donkey with blue glasses who lives in the suburbs with his mom and dad, as well as a host of other animal friends and teachers.
19) The night door
Author
Series
Edison Beaker creature seeker volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Edison Beaker gets introduced to the true nature of his family's pest-control company, Creature Seekers, when his Uncle Earl takes him and his sister Tesla on an emergency call to the Night Door.
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