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2) Guts
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
This is the astonishing testimonial of Wisty and Whit Allgood, a sister and brother who were torn from their family in the middle of the night, slammed into prison, and accused of being a witch and wizard. They are not alone in their terrifying predicament. Thousands of young people have been kidnapped. Some have been accused ; many others remain missing. Their fate is unknown, and the word is feared -- for the ruling regime will stop at nothing to...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Takei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
5) El Deafo
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 22
Description
The Pyncheons, having lived for generations under the curse of a supposed witch who once occupied the land on which the family mansion was built, gain a new lease on life with the arrival of young Phoebe Pyncheon from the country.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this volume, you'll get up-close and personal with some of the world's most skilled hunters, from the majestic eagle to the oft-maligned scavenger vulture! Armed with razor-sharp claws, keen eyesight, powerful wings, and killer instincts, these stealthy predators can make a meal of rodents, fish, snakes, lizards, monkeys, and even kangaroos! Discover how these amazing birds who are often at the top of the food chain, play an integral role in many...
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Series
Captain Underpants volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on Brewster's Hill. They say her companion, Bloody Bones, has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming white in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again. Daniel doesn't believe the stories about the witch or her beast. He figures the kids on the bus are just trying to scare him, since he's new. But when his sister,...
10) Calamity Jack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A graphic novel that presents the adventures of Jack in a city filled with fairy tale characters.
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Series
Twisted journeys volume 6
Description
This book, starring you, tells what happens when you are caught in a time machine and must experience perils of the past and frights of the future.
13) Sisters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Summary: Raina cannot wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things are not quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she is also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship does not improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something does not seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"World War I introduced a new type of warfare: mechanized war on a global scale. Nathan Hale (the author's real name), whose previous graphic histories for young readers include "One Dead Spy" (about the American hero Nathan Hale), "Big Bad Ironclad" (about the American Civil War), and "Donner Dinner Party" (about the Donner Party of 1846-47), here offers a concise illustrated history of WWI"--
17) Lifetime passes
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"In this darkly comedic young adult graphic novel, a group of teens starts a program to bring senior citizens to a local theme park to take advantage of the unofficial park policy: If someone dies on the property, the rest of their party is given lifetime passes!" --Provided by publisher.
19) Roller Girl
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
For fans of Raina Telgemeier s "Smile," a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and surviving junior high through the power of roller derby. For most of her twelve years, Astrid has done everything with her best friend Nicole. But after Astrid falls in love with roller derby and signs up for derby camp, Nicole decides to go to dance camp instead. And so begins the most difficult summer of Astrid's life as she struggles to keep up with the older...
20) Stealing home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A gripping graphic novel that tells a boy's experience in a WWII Japanese internment camp, and the lessons that baseball teaches him.Sandy Saito is a happy boy who's obsessed with baseball --- especially the Asahi team, the pride of his community. But when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, his life, like that of every North American of Japanese descent, changes forever. Forced to move to a remote internment camp, he and his family cope as best they...