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1) Locker hero
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Misadventures of Max Crumbly volume 1
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Questioning his resolve to attend public school after being homeschooled when he is targeted by a bully, Max aspires to become like his favorite comic book heroes and finds an unexpected opportunity to be the hero his middle school needs.
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Babymouse volume 5
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"It's Valentine's Day, a day for romance, candy, and the school dance."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
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"Though Henry Khoo is twelve years old, he's still treated like a baby. He's forbidden from going anywhere without his sister/chaperone/bodyguard. And he definitely CAN'T take a journey halfway around the world all by himself! But that's exactly his plan. After his family's annual trip to visit his father in Singapore is canceled, Henry decides he doesn't want to be cooped up at home with his overprotective family and BFF turned NRFF (Not Really Friend...
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Squish volume 1
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When Squish, a meek amoeba who loves the comic book exploits of his favorite hero, "Super Amoeba, " starts feeling sick, he worries he has caught a deadly illness.
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Squish volume 8
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Squish the amoeba's friend Pod has been feeling strange lately, but Squish finds out Pod is going through mitosis, the process that splits single-celled organisms.
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CSPL Staff Picks
Eisenhower Public Library Staff Picks: Literary Fiction
OBD Jewish American Heritage Month - ADULT
Pulitzer Prize Fiction
Eisenhower Public Library Staff Picks: Literary Fiction
OBD Jewish American Heritage Month - ADULT
Pulitzer Prize Fiction
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The beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay and their quest to become American icons in the comic book world. Now with special bonus material..
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Kingdom keepers. Original series volume 6
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Having discovered that Meleficent and the Overtakers are plotting a catastrophic event that will effect Disney and the world beyond, the five Kingdom Keepers struggle to decipher the clues found in the answers to puzzles hidden inside a stolen journal.
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Adventures of Captain Underpants volume 2
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Principal Krupp once again turns into the superhero Captain Underpants in order to save the world, and Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, from the evil talking toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000.
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Adventures of Captain Underpants volume 4
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When Professor Pippy P. Poopypants comes to Jerome Horwitz Elementary School to teach science, and he goes off the deep end because students make fun of his name, only Captain Underpants can save the school from the professor's perilous plot.
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Adventures of Captain Underpants volume 5
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George and Harold have really done it this time--they've created a monster! She's faster, smarter, and more evil than anything the world has seen before--she's Wedgie Woman! With the help of her horrible robots and her horrendous hairdo, Wedgie Woman is on a mission to take over the world, and she'll give a whopping wedgie to anyone who stands in her way--including Captain Underpants.
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Bestselling cartoonist Jim Benton of It's Happy Bunny and Dear Dumb Diary fame has also been posting whimsical, dry-humored, and at-times nasty cartoons on Reddit.com, where more than a third of the top-100 cartoons on the "Cartoons" subreddit are his. Now, for the first time, these cartoons have been gathered into a single book. From wry observations about the absurdities of life and acerbic comments to poetic musings, from cats and dogs to humans,...
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Adventures of Captain Underpants volume 3
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Only Captain Underpants can stop the three evil space aliens who have invaded Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and turned everyone into lunchroom zombie nerds.
16) Squint
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Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.
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The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie American Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the...
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Story 1: "All Jin Wing wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at the school. Jocki and his bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl." Story 2: "Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables....
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Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 1
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Amy lives on a colony in deep space, but when her father loses his job the family moves back to Earth, where she has to adapt to heavier gravity, a new school, and a strange boy with no flavor.
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