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Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Jedi Academy books comes an imaginative picture book about a kid whose creative outlook has everyone at school seeing the world through new eyes. Fred does not want to go to school because it's boring. Especially since he thinks his teacher is a robot. If only Fred could imagine a way for his day to be more exciting...
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An imaginative mouse who likes to read heroic fantasy novels finds herself on the school math team as it prepares to compete for the coveted Golden Slide Rule.
4) Copper
Author
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Binky adventures volume 5
Publisher
Kids Can Press, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Binky the space cat and his team of space pets are unwillingly boarding at the vet's office while their humans are away and plotting a daring escape only to stumble onto a secret alien plot to defeat the human race.
Author
Series
Mile End kids story volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Disappointed she cannot have a pet, Colette, who has just moved to a new house, claims she's lost a pet parakeet and two neighborhood boys agree to help her find it.
7) Nightlights
Author
Series
Nightlights volume 1
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every night, tiny stars appear out of the darkness in little Sandy's bedroom. She catches them and creates wonderful creatures to play with until she falls asleep, and in the morning brings them back to life in the whimsical drawings. When a mysterious new girl appears at school, Sandy's drawings are noticed for the first time, but Morfie's fascination with Sandy's talent soon turns into something far more sinister.
8) Glass Town
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The entrancing story of the Brontë sisters' childhood imaginary world. Four children: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it. But can reality be enough, when fiction is so enticing? And what happens to an imaginary world when its creators grow up? Plots are spiraling, characters are getting wildly out of hand, and a great deal of ink is being spilt... Welcome to Glass Town."--Provided...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Diana has an almost perfect life on the island of Themyscira. But even though she has a loving mother and many "aunties," she is an only child. The only child on the entire island, in fact. Every other person on the island is an adult who's the best in their trade and mighty in body, while Diana is small, sometimes clumsy, and not particularly good at anything. She's not Wonder Woman...yet. What Diana needs is someone her own age...
10) Doodleville
Author
Series
Doodleville volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Drew thinks she has life down to a fine art & until she has to confront a monster of her own creation. Hi! Im Drew, and I love doodling. These are just a few of my doodlesMike, Panja, and Kittybunny. Theyre the best! (Except when Mike steals things, or when Kittybunny tries to eat her friends. Were working on that. I cant be TOO mad at them, because Im the one who made them & right?) Ive drawn an entire town for my doodles to live in. If I could,...
11) Make believe
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Fox and Rabbit are the very best of friends. They do everything together. Good things like getting ice cream and not-so-good things like getting bad haircuts. But when they meet a new friend, Owl, Fox isn't so sure if there's enough friendship to go around. Owl's imagination turns out to be wild and welcoming, and Fox soon realizes what Rabbit's known all along - that there's always room for new friend."-- cover page 4.
12) Livi & Nate
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Livi and her brother, Nate, have finally settled into bed on a snowy winter's night. But Livi can't sleep. The house rumbles and creaks, and shadows hover outside her window. How will she ever get to sleep? But soon Livi's vivid imagination leads the siblings on a dreamy, adventure-filled night of talking snow animals, daring superheroes - and maybe even a few zzz's."-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Hello Kitty graphic novels volume 4
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Hello Kitty and her friends are letting their imaginations run wild--dreaming up rainy day adventures, inventing amazing machines and solving problems in the most inventive ways. When creativity and friendship combine, the possibilities are endless!" --
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Flores feels alone, bored, and trapped in her familys new apartment. Her camp friends arent replying to her postcards, and shes trying not to think about looming trips to the doctor. As the hot Chicago summer rolls on, she uses her imagination to escape the dull days for better and for worse. Harriet fibs in her postcards, decides her mail carrier is evil, and wonders if the floor above her is haunted. She also spends times with her neighbor,...
15) Piper
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale love. When Maggie meets the mysterious Piper, it seems that all her wishes are coming true. Spellbound, Maggie falls hard for him and plunges headfirst...
Author
Series
Cardboard kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's nearly Halloween in The Cardboard Kingdom, and one thing is for sure: a mystery is afoot. Nate is positive he saw a monster in his backyard. It wasn't a shadow or a rustling tree. It wasn't his eyes playing a trick on him. It was a monster, plain and simple. But the trouble is, no one believes him. Even his stepbrother, Elijah, says he must have imagined it... Until it shows up over and over again in the kingdom. Always at night, always on the...
Author
Series
Cardboard kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again. In the Cardboard Kingdom, you can be anything you want to be--imagine that!"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two stories and two poems. All wondrous and imaginative about the tales we tell and experience. Where the incarnations of the months of the year sit around a campfire sharing stories, where an older college professor recounts a Narnian childhood, where the apocalypse unfolds, and where the importance of generational storytelling is seen through the Goldilocks fairytale. These four comics adaptations have something for everyone and are a must for...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In The River at Night, Kevin Huizenga delves deep into consciousness. What begins as a simple, distracted conversation between husband and wife, Glenn and Wendy Ganges him reading a library book and her working on her computer becomes an exploration of being and the passage of time. As they head to bed, Wendy exhausted by a fussy editor and Glenn energized by his reading and no small amount of caffeine, the story begins to fracture. The River at...
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