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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 340L
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR! Everyone's favorite sixth grader is back for more misadventures, and Big Nate: Silent But Deadly smells like a winner! Whether he's showing the ropes to a detention rookie, campaigning for the Student of the Month Award, or writing hilarious movie reviews for The Weekly Bugle, Nate Wright never fails to make his mark at P.S. 38. But middle school's no bed of roses. In fact, sometimes it just plain stinks. Just ask...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 340L
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English
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Life can be stressful for Nate Wright. At school, Mrs. Godfrey makes every day a nightmare. At home, he's stuck between Ellen, his incredibly annoying older sister, and Dad, perhaps the most clueless parent of all time. And don't get him started on Gina, the ultimate teacher's pet, or Artur, the unassuming exchange student who bests him at every turn. It's enough to make even a can-do kid like Nate scream: "I CAN'T TAKE IT!"
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What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores and have a weakness for kittens? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks brings charming humor to the trials and tribulations of a young, female superhero, battling monsters both supernatural and mundane in an all-too-ordinary world. A lighthearted twist on the superhero genre!
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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This colorful graphic novel features the philosophical and existential musings of a cat named Penny.
Told through a collection of stories, Penny: A Graphic Memoir wanders through her colorful imagination as she recalls her humble beginnings on the streets of New York and waxes poetic about the realities of her sheltered life living in an apartment with her owners.
Filled with ennui, angst, and vivid dreams, Penny proves that being...
Told through a collection of stories, Penny: A Graphic Memoir wanders through her colorful imagination as she recalls her humble beginnings on the streets of New York and waxes poetic about the realities of her sheltered life living in an apartment with her owners.
Filled with ennui, angst, and vivid dreams, Penny proves that being...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 840L
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English
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Colossal strength, mind-blowing powers, and twisted villains make for amazing block-buster movies. But comic books existed long before they exploded across the big screen. Trace the history of the ever-evolving world of comics, from its meager beginnings to its prized position in pop culture today.
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Wallace the brave volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Welcome to Snug Harbor! Will Henry's Wallace the Brave is a whimsical comic strip that centers around a bold and curious little boy named Wallace, his best friend Spud and the new girl in town, Amelia. Wallace lives in the quaint and funky town of Snug Harbor with his fisherman father, plant loving mother and feral little brother, Sterling.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 570L
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English
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Meet Ozy and Millie, two middle-grade students in Seattle who also happen to be foxes. This debut comic from Phoebe and Her Unicorn creator Dana Simpson centers around these two best friends as they take on the everyday challenges all middle-graders face-bullies, tests, and the dread of going back to school after a surprise snow day. Millie is a mischievous and inquisitive 10-year-old with a talent for evading homework, a habit of questioning authority,...
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These casually drawn, perfectly on-point comics by the hugely popular young Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Andersen are for the rest of us. They document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, and dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas. In other words, the horrors and awkwardness of young modern life. Oh and they are totally not autobiographical....
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Finally, a definitive and reliable manual that demystifies the complicated world of parenting while delivering crucial tips and sage advice-all from three guys who make comics instead of children. This informative guide for breeders tackles all the big parenting issues: Finding messages in your alphabet soup, drawing the perfect hand turkey, getting away with kidnapping, telling your kids you don't love them anymore, and making out with your kid's...
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Timmy Failure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
520L
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English
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"My name is Failure. Timmy Failure. I am the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. The book you are holding is a historical record of my life as a detective. It has been rigorously fact-checked. All the drawings in here are by me. I tried to get my business partner to do the illustrations, but they were not good. This book, and my life, are the inspiration for a new movie, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were...
11) The witches
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they...
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In her hugely popular comic drawings, Gemma Correll dispenses dubious advice and unreliable information on life as she sees it, including The Dystopian Zodiac, Reward Stickers for Grown-Ups, Palm Reading for Millennials, and a Map of the Introvert's Heart. For all you fellow agonizers, fretters, and nervous wrecks, this book is for you. Read it and weep...with laughter
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A pervasive sense of parody and humour is displayed within The Empire Sells Out, where more-than-human figures, forms, and omnipresent forces play their part in a drama-charged, shifting society. The Emperor is at its centre, an evocation of humanity traversing a landscape of shapeshifting brush strokes and bristling language - he's universally known but racked with uncertainties...
The Emperor's greatest ambition is to attain anonymity.
This book...
14) Oh No
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Alex Norris' viral webcomic, Webcomic Name, has captured the internet's heart. The disappointed blob and its resigned "oh no" has become a recognizable slogan, tapping into the current internet zeitgeist of self-conscious pessimism to hilarious and heartbreaking effect.
Now in this alternately funny and gloomy collection, oh no brings together all the series' greatest hits as well as dozens of never-before-seen comics. With exciting material for...
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Breaking cat news volume 1
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English
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Cats reporting on the news that matters to cats with stories such as The Vacuum Cleaner Is Back!, The Woman Is Cooking Bacon!, and The Ceiling Cats Are Everywhere Tonight! Cynical, no nonsense Elvis and shy, sweet, sensitive Puck are the reporter kitties in the field, while the adventurous jokester Lupin serves as anchor cat. Together they break headlines on the food bowl, new plants, mysterious red dots, strange cats in the yard, and all the daily...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
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What is the best job for a parrot and a stork? Could they be good detectives? How about as anesthesiologist? They might do well as guards at an art museum? If that doesn't work, they might try to work in a hotel. Or maybe they can help the war effort by being bombardiers. What can these two dumb birds do to make a living? Maybe all five of these jobs. This issue contains five stories about Birdbrain and Bonehead as they make a mess of each of...
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Dilbert book volume 23
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Dilbert and his co-workers cope with senior management, the pointy-haired boss, Dogbert, Catbert, and each other as they struggle to survive, in a collection of excerpts from the comic strip about life at a large corporation.
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Sarah valiantly struggles with waking up in the morning, being productive, and dealing with social situations. Sarah's Scribbles is the comic strip that follows her life, finding humor in living as an adulting introvert that is at times weird, awkward, and embarrassing.
20) Strange planet
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Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet is an adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green, and purple, based on the phenomenally popular Instagram of the same name! Strange Planet covers a full life cycle of the planet's inhabitants, including milestones such as: The Emergence Day, Being Gains a Sibling, the Being Family Attains a Beast... With dozens of never-before-seen illustrations in...
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