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1) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"A compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century. Long acclaimed around the world, Upton Sinclair's 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle remains a powerful book even today. Not many works of literature can boast that their publication brought about actual social and labor change,...
2) BTTM FDRS
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicagos south side, the Bottomyards
Series
My favorite thing is monsters volume 1
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around...
4) The Banks
Author
Publisher
TKO Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Steal smart. Right a wrong. Chicago. Southside. For fifty years the women of the Banks family have been th most successful thieves in the city by following one simple rule: Get in. Get away. Get paid. Never get greedy. Bun when the youngest Banks, who has long turned her back on her family stumbles upon the hist of a lifetime, the potential windfall may be enough to bring three generations of thieves together for one incredible score and the chance...
Author
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A bizarre double murder draws the interest of Chicago's only wizard-for-hire. But as Harry Dresden begins his investigation, the clues lead to troubling conclusions about the possible perpetrator, and set him on a path that will place him in the middle of a conflict between the city's three most powerful factions"--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The whole world loves Riri Williams, A.K.A. Ironheart! Well, except for those people who have a bone to pick with how she's doing the job. And the deadly villain who'd like to take a piece out of her. Come to think of it, that's a whole lot of people who aren't that fond of her! What's a girl to do? Striking out on her own, Riri has her idealism put to the test by a world she does not yet understand. How far will she go to do what she knows is right?...
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