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This month, we are celebrating graphic novels, also known as comic books! Studies have shown that comic books appeal to people who have trouble reading or find various reading topics uninteresting. They, too, can learn to love reading! Comics also help us see things differently and takes complex thinking to fit the pictures with the words!
Spiderman, Batman, Superman, and more! Comics are more than just superheroes! Look through this list and see what interests you!
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Giants Beware!
Jorge Aguirre · First Second; Original edition
Format: Book
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Make way for Claudette the giant slayer in this delightful, fantastical adventure! Claudette's fondest wish is to slay a giant. But her village is so safe and quiet! What's a future giant slayer to do? With her best friend Marie (an aspiring princess) , and her brother Gaston (a pastry-chef-to-be)... |
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Adventure Time Original Graphic Novel Vol. 9: The Brain Robbers
Josh Trujillo · Kaboom
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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LSP and Tree Trunks go on a treasure hunt! Good thing Finn and Jake are there to save the day . . . or are they?It's the most important moment of Lumpy Space Princess's life, and it's all going to slip through her fingers if she doesn't get help. Tree Trunks comes out of her mystery... |
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Nightlights
Lorena Alvarez · Nobrow Press
Pages: 54
Format: Hardcover
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A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION
Every night, tiny stars appear out of the darkness in little Sandy's bedroom. She catches them and creates wonderful creatures to play with until she falls asleep, and in the morning brings them back to life in the whimsical drawings that... |
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El Deafo
Cece Bell · Amulet Books
Pages: 233
Format: Book
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A 2015 Newbery Honor Book Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles... |
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Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean
Sarah Stewart Taylor · Hyperion Book CH
Format: Hardcover
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Amelia Earhart developed a love of flying at a very young age. As she followed her dream and built a name in the field of aviation - breaking numerous records along the way - she inspired other women to soar to new heights.With an introduction by astronaut pioneer Eileen Collins, Amelia... |
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Zita the Spacegirl
Ben Hatke · First Second
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
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Zita's life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye. When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as new experiences go, but Zita... |
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The Stonekeeper
Kazu Kibuishi · Scholastic
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Graphic novel star Kazu Kibuishi creates a world of terrible, man-eating demons, a mechanical rabbit, a talking fox, a giant robot---and two ordinary children on a mission.
After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased... |
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Red's Planet: Book 1
Eddie Pittman · Amulet Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Red's Planet, an intergalactic graphic novel fantasy series from award-winning cartoonist Eddie Pittman (writer/story artist for Disney's hit TV series Phineas and Ferb) , is a nonstop adventure with a unique cast of characters unlike any you've ever seen before.
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BONE #1: Out from Boneville
Jeff Smith · Graphix/Scholastic
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
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The cornerstone of GRAPHIX, our new graphic novel imprint, BONE is the incredible comic book saga of the unwitting hero who must save an idyllic valley from the forces of evil.
The BONE adventures tell the story of a young bone boy, Fone Bone, and his two cousins, Phoney Bone and Smiley... |
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Hatter M, Vol. 1: The Looking Glass Wars (Hatter M Looking Glass Wars)
Frank Beddor · Automatic Pictures; First Paperback Edition edition
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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Put to rest any delusions or disinformation you have of the tea-guzzling madman of faux literary history and prepare to expand your consciousness as the saga of Hatter Madigan and his relentless search for the lost Princess of Wonderland unfolds in Volume 1 of the Hatter M graphic novel... |
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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Don Brown · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Kirkus' Best of 2015 list
School Library Journal Best of 2015
Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list
Horn Book Fanfare Book
BOOKLIST Editor's Choice
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around... |
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Through the Woods
Emily Carroll · Margaret K McElderry
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation "His Face All Red," in print for the first time.
Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection... |
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Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary
Keshni Kashyap · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Tenth Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Persepolis and American Born Chinese a wise and funny high school heroine comes of ageTina M sophomore is a wry observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy and of the foibles of her Southern California intellectual Indian family Shes on a first-name basis... |
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Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary
Keshni Kashyap · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Tenth Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Persepolis and American Born Chinese a wise and funny high school heroine comes of ageTina M sophomore is a wry observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy and of the foibles of her Southern California intellectual Indian family Shes on a first-name basis... |
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Wonderland
Tommy Kovac · Disney Press
Pages: 159
Format: Print book
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Among the numerous curiosities that have gone unexplained in the classic tale Alice in Wonderland, perhaps the most perplexing might be who, exactly, is the "Maryann" that the White Rabbit mistakes Alice for at the beginning of the story? Lewis Carroll first made us ponder... |
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Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin
Tim Siedell · Dark Horse Books
Format: Book
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A ninth assassin—more deadly than the eight who came before—has been hired to murder Darth Vader. Elsewhere, another threat to the Empire has made itself known, and will take Vader on a hunt for an ancient evil... All the while, the ninth assassin lurks, waiting for the perfect... |
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American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang · First Second; First Edition edition
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback
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A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he’s the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful... |
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Ghostopolis
Doug TenNapel · GRAPHIX; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A page-turning adventure of a boy's journey to the land of ghosts and back.Imagine Garth Hale's surprise when he's accidentally zapped to the spirit world by Frank Gallows, a washed-out ghost wrangler. Suddenly Garth finds he has powers the ghosts don't have, and he's... |
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