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Teaching Reading Comprehension with Graphic Texts: An Illustrated Adventure
Teaching Reading Comprehension with Graphic Texts: An Illustrated Adventure

Katie Monnin · Maupin House
Format: Paperback

Today's reading standards require K-12 teachers to teach multi-modal texts that combine print and images. Teaching Reading Comprehension with Graphic Texts: An Illustrated Adventure shows teachers how to read, understand, and teach the unique vocabulary and anatomy of the graphic text...
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Bombing Nazi Germany: The Graphic History of the Allied Air Campaign That Defeated Hitler in World War II
Bombing Nazi Germany: The Graphic History of the Allied Air Campaign That Defeated Hitler in World War II

Wayne Vansant · Zenith Press
Format: Book

In Bombing Nazi Germany, renowned graphic novel author and artist Wayne Vansant profiles the dramatic joint American-British Allied air war against Nazi Germany throughout Europe during World War II. Meticulously researched, illustrated, and written with the same unmatched quality of Vansant's...
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Nimona
Nimona

Noelle Stevenson · Mi
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17) ]The New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comicNemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic...
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Law of the Desert Born
Law of the Desert Born

Charles Santino · Bantam
Format: Hardcover

The first graphic novel adaptation of the work of master storyteller Louis L’Amour is a dynamic tale of the Old West that explores the borderlands of loyalty and betrayal with the emotional grittiness of a noir thriller.   New Mexico, 1887, a land in the midst of the worst drought...
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Fantasy Sports 2: The Bandit of Barbel Bay
Fantasy Sports 2: The Bandit of Barbel Bay

Sam Bosma · Nobrow Pr
Pages: 56
Format: Print book

Wiz and Mug are back in action, and the action this time goes by the name of BEACH VOLLEYBALL!Wiz and Mug's adventures continue when a misunderstood teleportation spell accidentally drops them off in a ruined beach town. When the town's amphibious inhabitants confront Wiz and Mug with...
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47 Ronin
47 Ronin

Mike Richardson · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 151
Format: Hardcover

Japan's enduring national legend comes to comics! The tale of the 47 Ronin and their epic mission to avenge their wronged master epitomizes the samurai code of honor, and creators Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai have done justice to their story! Meticulously researched and beautifully...
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American Born Chinese
American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang · Square Fish; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Jin Wang starts at a new school where hes the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesnt want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin just wants to be an all-American boy, because hes in love with an all-American girl. Danny is an all-American boy great...
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Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie
Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie

Anne Martinetti · Selfmadehero
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The life of Agatha Christie was as mysterious and eventful as her fiction. This beautifully illustrated graphic novel traces the life of the Queen of Whodunnit from her childhood in Torquay, England, through a career filled with success, mischief, and adventure, to her later years as Dame...
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Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936

Edward Sorel · Liveright Publishing Company
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

In a hilarious send-up of sex, scandal, and the Golden Age of Hollywood, legendary cartoonist Edward Sorel brings us a story (literally) ripped from the headlines of a bygone era.In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel was living in a $97-a-month railroad...
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DC Super Hero Girls
DC Super Hero Girls

Various · DC Comics
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

Welcome to DC Super Hero High! Class in now in session!Prepping for high school finals is hard enough, but at DC Super Hero High, even the tests are super-tough! Supergirl, Bumblebee, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Katana and Poison Ivy are studying hard when they are trapped by a mysterious...
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Ruins
Ruins

Peter Kuper · Selfmadehero
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is the opportunity to revisit her past. For George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. For both of them, it will be a collision course with political and personal...
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The Complete Peanuts 1995-1996
The Complete Peanuts 1995-1996

Charles M Schulz · Fantagraphics
Pages: 348
Format: Print book

This is the twenty-third (out of twenty-five) volume of the New York Times best-selling series that collects every single one of the 18,000-plus Peanuts comic strips; it will coincide with a new feature film. In The Complete Peanuts: 1995-1996 (Vol. 23) , Charlie Brown starts taking...
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In Real Life
In Real Life

Cory Doctorow · First Second
Format: Book

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely...
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Dinosaurs #1: In the Beginning...
Dinosaurs #1: In the Beginning...

Arnaud Plumeri · Papercutz
Format: Hardcover

Think you know everything there is to know about dinosaurs? Think again! In this brand new series, kid dinos show us what their lives were like in short, funny, teeth-gnashing bursts of prehistoric mayhem. DINOSAURS is your guided tour through the rough-and-tumble world of the mightiest...
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Garfield Fat Cat Volume 1
Garfield Fat Cat Volume 1

Jim Davis · Ballantine Books; Cmc edition

Witty, urbane, sassy, and downright delightful, here are the first three original books of pure Garfield collected in one packed volume. They tell the story of the feisty feline's birth, adoption, and growth into general wonderfulness---just in case you've forgotten --and remind...
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