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Author
Series
Wings of Fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Not every dragonet wants a destiny...Clay has grown up under the mountain, chosen along with four other dragonets to fulfill a mysterious prophecy and end the war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. He's not so sure about the prophecy part, but Clay can't imagine not living with the other dragonets; they're his best friends. So when one of the dragonets is threatened, all five spring into action. Together, they will choose freedom over fate, leave...
Author
Series
Low volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Stel Caine, a survivor in a group that has found refuge from the sun in the ocean depths, searches for a new world while her family struggles to maintain their way of life, but when her family is captured by pirates, Stel must do everything she can to rescue them.
Author
Series
Ody-C volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An eye-searing, mind-bending, gender-shattering epic science fiction retelling of Homer's Odyssey starting with the end of a great war in the stars and the beginning of a very long journey home for Odyssia and her crew of warriors.
Author
Series
Black science volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Grant McKay and his team have punched through the barriers of reality with his invention, the Pillar, but something goes wrong and now Grant, his team, and his kids are barreling through the Eververse with no guidance and no way home.
8) Garden
Author
Publisher
PictureBox
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"A group of friends is attempting to enter a garden just beyond a wall. When they succeed, the garden they finally enter is no Eden, but rather a massive landscape of machines, geometric forms and all manner of nonorganic objects. In Japanese comic-book artist Yuichi Yokoyama's newest and longest work to be translated into English, his characters become enmeshed in a fantastic wonderland of distorted mirrors, photographic equipment, massive libraries...
Author
Series
MegaTokyo volume 6
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Tokyo faces the threat of a zombie invasion while the city's fanboys are up in arms about a rumor that the long-awaited game featuring Kimiko is going to be cancelled and Piro races to Kimiko's rescue; meanwhile, Largo seeks help from a magical girl still learning to control her powers.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Alone at the end of the world, Aria is a woman with a mission! As she traipses through an overgrown city with a cat named Jelly Beans, Aria is on a fruitless search for an ancient relic with immeasurable power. But when a creepy savage sets her on a path to complete her quest, she'll face death in the hopes of claiming her prize" --
Author
Series
Cleopatra in space volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Cleo and her friends journey from Yasiro Academy to the city of Hykosis, where some of the most notorious thieves and assassins live. They're in search of information about the time tablets that could determine Cleo's fate -- whether she wants them to or not. But the group is separated when Xaius Octavian's fleet attacks their ship, and Cleo and Akila are on their own until they run into an old nemesis. Will Cleo find the information she needs and...
Author
Series
Black science volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Stranded on a world ravaged by plague, Grant McCoy realizes that every dimension they've passed through has been devastated by Pillar technology. Even as Grant tries to reclaim the Dimensionaut credo 'Leave every world better than how we found it,' his team threatens to tear itself apart from within. With the timer to the Pillar's final jump ticking down, Grant risks losing everything he's fought to protect while fighting to save a world that isn't...
Author
Series
Black science volume 4
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Following the catastrophic final jump of the Pillar, the last Dimensionaut is stranded in the furthest reaches of space, adrift on the wreckage of his former self. Before he can reclaim his mantle as protector of the Eververse, he must first overcome the demons that lurk within his own soul. And when he emerges from this dark night he'll find that all of reality is more in need of a hero than ever before."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Low volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Stel Caine is on a mission to rise from the depths of the sea, where humanity has fled to save itself from the ravages of a dying sun, and be the first human in millennia to walk to scorched surface of the earth.
Author
Series
Black science volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this second volume of the hit series, the Anarchist League of Scientists dives further into the Onion construct of reality than ever before, jumping wildly through worlds of wonder, fantastic beauty, and cosmic horrors. Beset on dangers from without and within, the team must learn to be a family if they're ever to survive and find their way home again.
Author
Series
Four points volume 2
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old twin adventurers Cleopatra and Alexandra Dodge are reunited with their father and realize that two family heirlooms reveal the location of a treasure that is their birthright. When they set sail with Captain Tarboro on the Almira, they know they're heading into danger --the ocean is filled with new and old enemies, including their nemesis, the infamous pirate Felix Worley."--from publisher.
Author
Series
Black science volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Grant McKay forges a path through the ravaged Eververse, determined to undo the damage he caused. His first stop is a world where his estranged daughter Pia has managed a peace offering between three godlike races, ending eons of brutal warfare. Grant's appearance threatens to destroy the fragile truce, sending him on a quest to finally bring his family home...but what he finds waiting for him there may be worse than the multitude horrors he encountered...
Author
Series
Bride's story volume 12
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Smith and his companions begin their journey back, returning the way they came, but with a treasured new addition - or two. Camera in hand, each stop provides new subjects to photograph and cherish, but they must be careful to avoid the moving Russian troops and whispered talk of war..."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Wings of fire (Graphic novels) volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
She can't believe it's finally happening. Tsunami and her fellow dragonets of destiny are journeying under the water to the great SeaWing Kingdom. Stolen as an egg from the royal hatchery, Tsunami is eager to meet her future subjects and reunite with her mother, Queen Coral. But Tsunami's triumphant return doesn't go quite the way she'd imagined. Queen Coral welcomes her with open wings, but a mysterious assassin has been killing off the queen's heirs...
Author
Series
Kane chronicles (Graphic novels) volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Carter and Sadie, offspring of the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane, embark on a worldwide search for the Book of Ra, but the House of Life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them"--
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