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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Real life isn't a fairytale. In fairy tales, the prince falls in love with the princess. But Tié̂n has a different story to tell. His parents are refugees struggling to learn English, and he doesn't know how to come out to them in Vietnamese. If he doesn't even have the right words, how can he ever know if his parents wills accept him? The answer is in fairy tales - a language that Tié̂n and his parents share. Tié̂nlearns from his favorite...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion! Sebastian's secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances--one of only two people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears...
Author
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Meet three certified geeks: a self-loathing journalist who has a seemingly normal girlfriend, a conspiracy theorist who still lives with his mother and an unemployed gamer who lives in his car. These strangely likable misfits find that dark personal secrets can sometimes be a virtue. The story also explores people's identities, both real and created, and how the two become confused and conflated through the Internet and role-playing games.
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An unorthodox biography of Diana Spencer told through a particular autistic and transmasculine lens. Examining issues of identity and self-determination, and the mythological parallels in th elives of the royal family and the author himself."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Arata and Hinohara finally catch each other up on the events of the worlds they've been switching between and conclude that they must revive the potent Amatsuriki power in their two companions if they plan to defeat the Six Sho.
Author
Publisher
Sapristi
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"El pr̕ncipe Sebastìn est̀ buscando una novia o m̀s bien, sus padres est̀n buscando una para ̌l. Sebastìn est̀ demasiado ocupado ocultando su vida secreta de todos. Por la noche, se pone atrevidos vestidos y toma por asalto Par̕s como la fabulosa Lady Crystallia, ¡el icono de moda m̀s popular de la capital mundial de la moda! El arma secreta de Sebastian (y su mejor amigo) es la brillante modista Frances, una de las dos ︢nicas personas...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Mullin is an unwitting target of seduction, Beelzebub and Belphegor arent sure how much skin to show at the beach, and Sargatanas is worried about her own stony exterior. In other words, Pandemonium is brimming with passion like always even if some residents dont want to admit it! Could Sargatanass disgust with her good-for-nothing boss, Astraroth, be a sign of something else&?
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Hinohara manages to escape his captors, and now he must make his way back to the Amawakuni capital. In order to get there, however, he has to first cross the region ruled by the treacherous Kannagi!"--From publisher's web site.
Series
As Miss Beelzebub likes volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As the archdemon Beelzebub's attendant, Mullin is constantly reminded of just how quirky his boss can be. However, he's quickly learning that Beel is not the only eccentric running Pandemonium! Whether it's the frivolous playboy Astaroth, the perpetually sleepy Dantalion, or Eurynome and her...dangerous tastes, it's a wonder anything gets done at all!"-- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity, Nicole turns to radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice-- Calling Dr. Laura tells the story of what happens to you when you...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Arata Hinohara and his friends enter the territory of Kikutsune, one of the Six Sho, a group comprised of Arata's most formidable adversaries. The greeting they receive from Kikutsune's lieutenants is anything but friendly, and only Arata, by sheer chance, escapes injury. This, however, does little to help him figure out how to defeat Kikutsune--if that's even possible!" -- page [4] of cover.
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Meet Rickety Stitch ... a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel. He's the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea why. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard's tale about the Road to Epoli and the land of Eem.
Author
Publisher
Go! Media Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Poor Yuzu is an orphan who's too clumsy to hold a job. She's reduced to living in a playground -- until a handsome stranger named Hassaku informs her that she's heir to a fortune, and whisks her into a world of wealth, power, and more hot suitors than she can shake a scepter at! But there's a catch: Hassaku must turn this klutz into a lady of refinement, or Yuzu will lose everything!" -- from publisher's web site.
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The title of Trollhunter weighs heavy on the shoulders of Jim Lake, Jr.--as does his new title of boyfriend--and it has lead him to a crisis of identity. To help the young man grasp who he is, the Trolls, Vendel, Blinky, and AAARRRGGHH!!!, and his best friend, Toby, look at the adventures and misadventures of six previous Trollhunters during times when they, too, questioned their fates&
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