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Mary Anne Saves the Day: Full-Color Edition

Ann M Martin - Graphix
Format: Hardcover

Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey are best friends and founding members of The Baby-sitters Club. Whatever comes up -- cranky toddlers, huge dogs, scary neighbors, prank calls -- you can count on them to save the day. Baby-sitting isn't always easy, and neither is dealing with strict...
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Chiggers

Hope Larson - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Abby thinks the new girl at summer camp, Shasta, is great because they both like all the same things, but Abby's friends can stand her, leaving Abby in the middle of a tough situation. Simultaneous.
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Roller Girl

Victoria Jamieson - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

The Newbery Honor Award Winner and New York Times bestseller Roller Girl is a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and surviving junior high through the power of roller derby - perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile! For most of her twelve years, Astrid...
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All's Faire in Middle School

Victoria Jamieson - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! The Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl is back with a heartwarming graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire. Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown...
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Sunny Side Up

Jennifer L. Holm - Graphix
Format: Hardcover

Sunny Lewin has been packed off to Florida to live with her grandfather for the summer. At first she thought Florida might be fun -- it is the home of Disney World, after all. But the place where Gramps lives is no amusement park. It's full of . . . old people. Really old people.Luckily,...
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Real Friends

Shannon Hale - First Second
Format: Hardcover

"Fresh and funny." -- New York Times Book ReviewNewbery Honor author Shannon Hale and New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham join forces in this graphic memoir about how hard it is to find your real friends -- and why it's worth the journey.When best...
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All Summer Long

Hope Larson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback

Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together, but he's off to soccer camp for a month, and he's been acting kind of weird lately anyway. So it's up to Bina to see how much fun she can have on her own. At first it's...
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Lumberjanes Vol. 1

Noelle Stevenson - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

Five best friends spending the summer at Lumberjane scout camp...defeating yetis, three-eyed wolves, and giant falcons...what's not to love?!Friendship to the max! Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five best pals determined to have an awesome summer together...and they're not gonna let any insane...
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Fake Blood

Whitney Gardner - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A middle schooler comes head-to-head with his vampire slayer crush in this laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel that's a perfect coming-of-age story for anyone who's ever felt too young, too small, or too average.It's the beginning of the new school year and AJ feels like everyone is changing...
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Be Prepared

Vera Brosgol - First Second
Format: Hardcover

All Vera wants to do is fit in -- but that's not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps. Vera's single mother can't afford that sort of luxury, but there's one summer camp in her price range...
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Amelia Rules Book 2: What Makes You Happy

Jimmy Gownley - IBooks
Format: Paperback

Amelia's parents have just gotten divorced, and she sees herself as the only normal one, surrounded by crazy friends and relatives. Collects issues 5-10 and an original Valentine's Day story.
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Making Friends

Kristen Gudsnuk - Graphix
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes making a friend is a lot easier than keeping one!Sixth grade was SO much easier for Danny. All her friends were in the same room and she knew exactly what to expect out of life. Now that she's in seventh grade, she's in a new middle school, her friends are in different classes...
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Invisible Emmie

TERRI LIBENSON - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jennifer L. Holm, Invisible Emmie is a humorous and surprising debut graphic novel by Terri Libenson, creator of the internationally syndicated, Reuben Award-winning comic strip The Pajama Diaries. This is the story of two totally different girls...
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Hilda and the Midnight Giant

Luke Pearson - Nobrow Press
Format: Hardcover

In Hilda and the Midnight Giant, our protagonist finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis, where her mother (an architect) has been offered a prestigious job. During Hilda's daily one-and-a-half...
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Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword

Barry Deutsch - Amulet Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Longing to fight dragons over taking the advice of various family members, spunky 10-year-old Mirka Herschberg hones her skills in her Orthodox Jewish community before accepting a challenge from a witch to defeat a giant troll, in a story inspired by an award-nominated web comic.
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To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel

Siena Cherson Siegel - Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Format: Hardcover

Dancers are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six -- and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance class in Boston, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet. To...
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Cardboard

Doug TenNapel - Graphix
Format: Library Binding

Cam's down-and-out father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday and he knows it's the worst present ever. So to make the best of a bad situation, they bend the cardboard into a man-and to their astonishment, it comes magically to life. But the neighborhood bully, Marcus, warps the powerful...
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The Dumbest Idea Ever!

Jimmy Gownley - GRAPHIX
Format: Hardcover

What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down?At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia...
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Secret Diary

Julien Neel - Graphic Universe TM
Format: eBook

Meet Lou! She's hardly your average 12 year old. Her handmade outfits are the talk of the school (even though they make the other girls laugh) , and her homework gets a lot of attention from her teachers (even though it lands her in the shrink's office) . Home sweet home is an apartment...
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Princeless Book 1: Deluxe Edition Hardcover

Jeremy Whitley - Action Lab Entertainment
Format: Hardcover

The first volume of Princeless as it's never been available before, in a special edition hardcover volume. This edition includes the full first volume written by Jeremy Whitley and illustrated by M Goodwin. Additionally, it includes the Skullkickers Crossover written by Jim Zub and illustrated...
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