Catalog Search Results

Free, unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga on your device or a computer. No holds, wait lists, or borrowing limits.
Author
Series
Color trilogy volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Series
Lou! volume 3
Publisher
Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lou's school year is off to a rocky start. Her BFF, Mina, won't speak to her, but a new friend, Mary Emily, never shuts up. Lou's mom and her new boyfriend are madly in love, but all their smooching is getting on Lou's nerves. Meanwhile, a wrecking ball is smashing down the apartment that used to belong to her beloved Tristan. Lou still has a friend in Paul, if she can just work up the courage to write him a letter.
Author
Series
Lou! volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lou shares the high and low points of being twelve as she takes a few awkward steps into dating, plays matchmaker for her single mother, and discovers, along with her best friend Mina, that they may be outgrowing playing with dolls.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he's casting her out now that he's famous! Kyoko won't suffer in silence--she's going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz! Kyoko desperately wants to be cast in a new samurai drama so that she can work opposite her best friend in the entire world, Kanae "Moko" Kotonami. But there are plenty of hurdles between her and her dream role,...
Author
Series
Lou! volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lou's attempt to play matchmaker for her mother and Richard are foiled by a mandatory visit with her grandmother, which is marked by boredom, Brussel sprouts, and Memaw's own plans for Mom's love life.
Author
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Willow loves the woods near her house. They re calm and quiet, so different from her own turbulent emotions, which she keeps locked away. When her emotions get the better of her one day, she decides to run away into the woods. There, she meets Pilu, a lost tree spirit who can t find her way back home which turns out to be the magnolia grove Willow s mom used to take her to. Willow offers to help Pilu, and the two quickly become friends. But the journey...
Author
Series
Hildafolk volume 6
Publisher
Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After a hectic adventures in the Stone Forest leaves Hilda, her mum and Twig feeling in little worse for wear, Hilda swears her days of sneaking out are over. That night, she settles into a deep slumber&only to wake up and find shes right back in troll territory and this time, without any backup! But how did she get these? Will she be able to get back to Trolberg? And what does the fearsome Mountain King have to do with any of it?
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance knows exactly what she wants, who she is, and where she's going. First, she'll win the battle of the bands with her two best friends, then she'll join the Gotham City Junior Police Academy so she can solve crimes just like her dad. Who knows? Her rock-star group of friends may even save the world, but first they'll need to agree on a band name. When a mysterious figure keeps getting in the way of Dinah's goals and threatens...
16) Pashmina
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pris mom avoids these questionsthe topic of India is permanently closed. For Pri, her mother's homeland can only exist in her imagination. That is, until she find a mysterious pashmina tucked away in a forgotten suitcase. When she wraps herself...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super cool mom was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Now, with a decade of grief and nervous laughter under her belt, Tyler shares the story of that gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, extremely awkward time in her lifefrom her moms first oncology appointment to her funeral and shiva week through the beginning of acing reality as a motherless daughter. She shares the...
18) Peanut
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nervous about starting her sophomore year at a new high school, Sadie decides to make herself more interesting by claiming to be allergic to peanuts, but her lie quickly spirals out of control.
Author
Publisher
Secret Acres
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A children's song inspires a love of Greek mythology in a young girl. A young woman finds a career in archeology and illustration. A young mother sees her daughter become a woman, as her own mother's memories are lost. Persephone's Garden is a deeply personal story and an inventive study of girlhood, womanhood and motherhood, through memory, history and mythology."-- cover page 4.
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request