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1) Class act
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In her memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe--many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions.
3) Sunburning
Author
Publisher
Koyama Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Collecting the moments that make up the days of a bipolar artist and mother. They are messy, funny and real"--Provided by publisher.
4) New kid
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
Author
Publisher
Koyama Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dealing with pregnancy, child-rearing, art-making, mental illness, and an MS diagnosis, the parts of Chlorine Gardens' sum sound heavy, but Keiler Roberts' gift is the deft drollness in which she presents life's darker moments. She doesn't whistle past graveyards, but rather finds the punch line in the pitiful."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Bakuman volume 12
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"With their new series Perfect Crime Party doing well in Weekly Shonen Jump, Moritaka and Akito sets their sights on beating their rivals in the magazine. But just as their dreams seem within reach, some surprising news will deal them an unexpected setback"--From publisher's web site.
Author
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka{u2014}Japan's "God of Manga"{u2014}looks at one of the twentieth century's great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). It is also an anecdotal study of the evolution of Japan's early manga and anime business and its heroes. A never-before-seen popular culture history of postwar Japan, it is sure to fascinate fans and anyone interested in manga, anime, and the potential of the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With her trademark, scratchy style and keen eye for the absurd, Liana Finck has amassed a large, devoted following who love the deeply insightful, delightfully odd way she describes how we all experience the world. Excuse Me assembles more than 500 of her most loved cartoons from Instagram and The New Yorker over the past few years, in such distinctive chapters as: Love & Dating; Gender & Other Politics; Animals; Art & Myth-Making; Humanity; Time,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the turbulent era of late 1950s Manhattan with jazz, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Red Scare as the volatile ingredients three groundbreaking black cartoonists defy convention and pay the price. Cliff Murphy is matinee handsome, a light-skinned, straight-haired black man and a comics artist known for his glamour girl art who passes for white downtown. Stephaney Stef
10) Bad friends
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power...
Author
Series
Over easy volume 2
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Late 70s. Oakland, a cheap and quirky haven for eccentrics, dreamers, junkies, and neer-do-wells. The 60s flower power dream has faded but the party rages on. Madge is working at the Imperial Caf̌ while trying to be a cartoonist for The National Lampoon. The lives of her coworkers are derailed by drugs and broken hearts as Madges ambition drives a wedge between her and those around her. Mimi Pond deftly captures the hyper-reality and melodrama of...
12) Erased: 4
Series
Erased volume 4
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Satoru is making great strides toward recovery, despite the gaping hole in his memory. But after a chance encounter with a stranger named Airi, Satoru realizes the fragments of 'dreams' from when he was asleep must be memories from another timeline--and Airi, from a future that no longer exists. As Satoru begins to piece together the events leading up to the incident, he finds himself once again in the thick of the investigation that cost him so...
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