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Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet has become Shakespeare's most well-known love story. See how true love can blossom, even in an unfriendly setting of hatred and feuding. Read along and find out how their innocence enables them to overlook the fighting between their families. Romeo and Juliet are betrayed by the very families they care about, forcing them to take their lives instead of being separated. In the end, through the pain of losing their children, the families...
3) Dracula
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dracula opens the door to the unknown. Do all superstitions have a basis in reality, or are they just folklore? Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the most feared and most loved tales in literature. From Transylvania to London, the reader explores the dark side of mystery and intrigue riding on the coattails of Dracula's cape, changing from wolf to bat, and living only in the nighttime. Do vampires really exist? Read Dracula and decide for yourself.
Series
Fox and Tanuki volume 6
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2023]-
Physical Desc
190 pages chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
After 300 years, the gods that imprisoned Senzou the black fox for his arrogance finally set him free. There is only one condition — he can't have any of his supernatural abilities back until he successfully helps a tanuki pup named Manpachi become one of their magical assistants. Unfortunately for Senzou, there's no cheating when it comes to completing his task! The magic beads around his neck make sure he can't wander too far from his charge or...
5) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist, tries to create life in his laboratory, the result in an ugly monster. Instantly feared by all who see him, the hated monster is driven into the countryside. Never given a change at friendship or human companionship, the monster plots a terrible revenge!
6) Primer
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While living with her latest set of foster parents, Ashley Rayburn mistakenly applies some found body paints which give her a wide range of special powers, but soon the military discovers what happened to their secret weapon and this puts Ashley and her newfound family and friends in danger.
7) Nimona
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
266 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nimona, a young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy, and Lord Ballister Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, set out to prove that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his friends are not the heroes everyone thinks they are, but Lord Blackheart soon realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past, and her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects some of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories adapted into graphic format, including "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Raven."
9) The giver
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
176 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a graphic novelization of Lois Lowry's novel in which Jonas, a boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is receives special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
Author
Series
Animorphs volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
Warned never to stay in his animal shape for more than two hours, Tobias forgets when he becomes involved in a rescue campaign and faces being trapped in a hawk's body forever.
Author
Publisher
Wave Blue World Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
199 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mystical, rooted, painful, joyous, and ecstatic; visions of the body, our genders, and our very identities from across the spectrum of contemporary poetry come together in this monumental intersectional feminist anthology where verse and comics unite in spectacular new ways.
Beautifully illustrated and bracingly written, EMBODIED is a memorable collaboration between cis female, trans, and non-binary poets and comics artists showcasing the power...
Author
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
105 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and... a threat. Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to be found between the panels of the strange books. With...
13) Fox & Rabbit
Author
Series
Fox and rabbit volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
87 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Easygoing Fox and anxious Rabbit seem like total opposites, but they are the best of friends, discovering their favorite things and overcoming their fears together.
14) Chivalry
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged)
Language
English
Description
"An elderly British widow buys what turns out to be the Holy Grail from a second-hand shop setting her off on an epic visit from an ancient knight who lures her with ancient relics in hope for winning the cup"--
Series
Graphic canon volume 3
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xii, 563 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color "The Graphic Canon," including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a one-act play from Zora Neale Hurston, the postmodernist writers, and more.
16) Cypher
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
112 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cypher is the story of one man's fluctuation between the cosmic and the mundane as he discovers the mystery beneath the surface of our seemingly shallow lives. Cypher leads us through sewers and subways, heaven and hell, museums, sculpture gardens, even Salvadore Dali's courtyard. But Dali is not all we recognize--Cypher mirrors something in all of us--he is no one, yet everyone.
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 159 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harvey Pekar changed the face of comics when his American Splendor series replaced traditional slam-bang superhero action with slice-of-life tales of his own very ordinary existence in Cleveland, Ohio, as a file clerk, jazz-record collector, and philosophical curmudgeon. Much as Seinfeld famously transcended sitcom conventions by being “a show about nothing,” Pekar’s deadpan chronicles of regular life—peppered with wry and caustic reflections—have...
Author
Series
Deathnote volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2005- < 2006>
Physical Desc
v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Light tests the boundaries of the Death Note's powers as L and the police begin to close in. Luckily Light's father is the head of the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves vital information about the case lying around. With access to his father's files, Light can keep one step ahead of the authorities. But who is the strange man following him, and how can Light guard against enemies whose names he doesn't know?
Author
Series
Death note volume 4
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2005- < 2006>
Physical Desc
v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Death note volume 5
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2005- < 2006>
Physical Desc
v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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