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Wonderful Women of the World
Laurie Halse Anderson
Format: Paperback
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Wonder Woman has been an inspiration for decades, and while not everyone would choose her star-spangled outfit for themselves, her compassion and fairness are worthy of emulation. We'll be presenting tales of the real-world heroes who take up Diana's mantle and work in the fields... |
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Big Nate and Friends
Lincoln Peirce - Scholastic
Format: Paperback
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Aspiring cartoonist Nate Wright is the star of Big Nate, the daily and Sunday comic strip distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association since 1991. Nate is eleven years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described... |
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My Last Summer With Cass
Mark Crilley - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover
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Megan and Cass have been joined at the brush for as long as they can remember. For years, while spending summers together at a lakeside cabin, they created art together, from sand to scribbles . . . to anything available. Then Cass moved away to New York.When Megan finally convinces her parents... |
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The Good Earth
PEARL S BUCK - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Pearl Buck's 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the rise and fall of Chinese villagers before World War I comes to life in this evocative graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Nick Bertozzi.In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China... |
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When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
Ken Krimstein - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies,... |
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Anne Frank Writes Words of Hope: Courageous Kid of World War II (Courageous Kids)
Debbie Vilardi - Capstone Pr Inc
Format: Hardcover
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"In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany. The Nazis terribly persecuted Jews and other groups of people. They murdered millions of Jews across Europe during World War II. A pre-teen girl named Anne Frank and her family managed to hide from the Nazis for two years.... |
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The Thud
Mikael Ross - Fantagraphics
Format: Paperback
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In this YA graphic novel, a boy with developmental disabilities finds his world turned upside down after his mother has a stroke and he realizes for the first time he's on his own. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection When Noel's mother has a stroke, his world is turned... |
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BIG NATE : silent but deadly
LINCOLN PEIRCE - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Middle school is a breeding ground for mischief and dreaming big for Big Nate and his pals! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR!Everyone's favorite sixth grader is back for more misadventures, and Big Nate: Silent But Deadly smells like a winner! Whether he's showing the ropes... |
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As the Crow Flies
Melanie Gillman - Iron Circus Comics
Format: Paperback
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A queer, black teenager finds herself stranded in a dangerous and unfamiliar place: an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp. |
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