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"Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quinceañera for Sue, which is the last thing she wants. She can't imagine wearing a big, floofy, colorful dress! What is Sue going to do? And how will she survive...
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
April 3, 2024: New Youth Graphic Novels
Gift Guide 2023: Translated Stories for the Global Teen Reader
LGBTQIA+ Love: Manga and Graphic Novels
April 3, 2024: New Youth Graphic Novels
Gift Guide 2023: Translated Stories for the Global Teen Reader
LGBTQIA+ Love: Manga and Graphic Novels
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"16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know...
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"[A] Princess Diana unlike any we've seen before. As a child, she is spoiled and free to exert her will without restraint -- until her selfishness leads to tragic results. Before she can become a hero, she will first have to find redemption" -- page 4 of cover.
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Follow the journey of two young adults, Joshua and Claire, each individually shaped by the day the sky went dark, but drawn to each other because of it. Coming of age in this new landscape, they will be forced to confront and challenge notions of identity, guilt, and survival as the darkness grows around them. When fear threatens to envelop all hope they have left, the two discover that love, family, and finding the true light in a world seemingly...
6) The crows
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After Kim inherits an old family house in rural Sweden, he finds strange notes and drawings posted everywhere, soon seeing monsters and ruminating on his family, himself, and the traumatic memories of his upbringing.
7) Bionic
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"Bionic is a coming-of-age tale for the digital generation, taking place in the near future. It's the story of Victor, a geeky teenager on a hopeless quest to win the love of the gorgeous Patricia -- but when she returns from a horrible accident with astonishing new robotic parts, both their lives will be changed forever. Koren Shadmi (Highwayman, The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television) presents a hypnotically illustrated story...
8) Tin Man
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"In Justin Madson's debut graphic novel, Tin Man, a girl and her brother befriend the titular Tin Man with unexpected results. Solar is in her last year of high school and is reeling from the recent death of her grandmother. She has abandoned her plans for the future and fallen in with a bad crowd. Her little brother, Fenn, doesn't understand why she's changed--she doesn't even want to help him build their rocket in the garage anymore. Campbell is...
9) Plutona
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Five suburban kids make a shocking discovery while exploring the woods one day after school... the body of the world's greatest superhero, Plutona, laying dead among the mud and grass. This discovery sends them on a dark journey that will threaten to tear apart their friendship and their lives.
10) Pistouvi
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"Jeanne is a little girl who lives with a mischievous young fox named Pistouvi. They share a charming little treehouse surrounded by a magical prairie tended by a giant 'tractor-man' and the wind-spirit he loves. Together, Jeanne and Pistouvie spend frolicking days without a care, but soon, the birds arrive and everything changes... A beautiful, lyrical fable about the inevitable transition from childhood freedom to adult responsibility, replete with...
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"Leaving home for the first time in his young life, Soma moves into the Polaris Dormitory--a place run by an old crone and filled with crazy and eccentric students! Barely settled in, Soma quickly finds himself in one of Totsuki's legendary cooking duels--a shokugeki! Who will his very first opponent be?"--
12) Bluebeard
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Award-winning duo Metaphrog transform the classic folktale into a feminist fairy tale, about the blossoming of a young child to womanhood striving for independence. Eve spends an idyllic childhood of long summer days with her sweetheart Tom, and together they dream of exploring the world. But that dream is soon shattered as she comes of age. The mysterious Bluebeard is looking for a new bride and has his sights set on Eve, and rumor has it that his...
13) Fangirl: 3
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Fangirl (Manga) volume 1
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"Everything in Cath's offline life is going wrong. Just when she's started to realize her feelings for Levi, she sees him kissing someone else. Plus, her writing partner, Nick, is acting strange, and her twin sister, Wren, is suddenly making time for their mother--the same woman who walked out of their lives ten years ago! When their dad ends up in the hospital, Cath decides it's time to rethink her plans for the future. But how can she leave the...
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"The "friendship and team-building" camp from hell begins! While most students are already petrified by the threat of instant expulsion for low marks, the unveiling of the teachers responsible for judging their dishes ratchets their fear to a whole new level! Just which anxiety-inducing teachers hold the culinary futures of Soma and the rest of the Polaris crew in their hands this time? Includes the one-shot "Your and My Romance Counseling"!"--
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"Let the shokugeki begin! Soma has challenged Totsuki graduate Chef Shinomiya in order to prevent Megumi's pending expulsion. However, thanks to a condition levied by Gin Dojima, the match turns in an unexpected direction! With such a foolhardy challenge, can Soma and Megumi win to survive another day?"--
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Scott Pilgrim volume 3
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"Scott Pilgrim's new girlfriend, Ramona Flowers, has made his life slightly complicated. She's got 7 evil ex-boyfriends and they've been showing up one by one to challenge Scott for the right to date her."--Page 4 of cover.
"Scott Pilgrim's new girlfriend, Ramona Flowers, has made his life slightly complicated. She's got 7 evil ex-boyfriends and they've been showing up one by one to challenge Scott for the right to date her."--cover, p.4.
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Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused...
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Food wars! volume 11
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Mimasaka copies his opponents' dishes perfectly, while Soma bets his all as a chef.
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Food wars! volume 14
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After passing the first challenge, Soma begins to work for Shinomiya at his new Tokyo restaurant, where he finds out he has to be the best of the best to keep up.
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Food wars! volume 13
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Three students survive the harsh trials of the preliminaries, winning their way into the finals. Which student will be the one to take home the crown as the winner of the Fall Classic?! Later, the furor of the Fall Classic has barely died down when Soma and the others are sent off to new battlefields! What is this new challenge that will test their desire to be chefs?
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