My First Graphic Novel These books are the perfect introduction to the world of safe, appealing graphic novels. Each story uses familiar topics, repeating patterns, and core vocabulary words appropriate for a beginning reader. Combine the entertaining story with comic book panels, exciting action elements, and bright colors and a safe graphic novel is born. A useful chart will teach the reader how to follow the graphic format, and the discussion questions...

"Aster always looks forward to the Midwinter Festival, a reunion of the entire Vanissen family that includes competitions in witchery and shapeshifting. This year, he's especially excited to compete in the annual Jolrun tournament--as a witch. He's determined to show everyone that he's proud of who he is and what he's learned, but he knows it won't be easy to defy tradition. Ariel has darker things on her mind than the Festival--like the mysterious...

"When Haruhi, a scholarship student at the exclusive Ouran High School, accidentally breaks an expensive vase belonging to the all-male Host Club, she is forced to work for them as a boy to repay her debt." --From B&T.

Teenage martial artist Ranma is cursed--he turns into a girl every time he is splashed with cold water. Now, he must fend off the advances of a boy who has fallen in love with him and, at the same time, try to convince the girl who he is promised to in marriage that he would make a good husband.

Fresh off their time fighting vampires, zombies, and giant creatures in the swamp - Princess Adrienne, Bedelia the Blacksmith, and Sparky the Dragon are in for their biggest adventure yet! Join our team of fearless ladies as they set off into the mountains to save twin princesses Andrea and Antonia. They'll meet a team of dragon slaying dwarf women, a farm full of trained monsters, and perhaps some of their most dangerous foes yet!

Strike a Pose! - Award winning photographer Akiha wants Izumi, Nakatsu and Mizuki for his new photo shoot! But the handsome, bisexual Akiha may have a more than professional interest in his models. and has he figured out that Mizuki is a girl? Caught in the treacherous, seductive world of high fashion, can our heroes escape...if they even want to?

Male Models - Tired of Sano and Mizuki taking their relationship so slow, Julia confronts Sano to get him moving faster. But Sano has other things to worry about...his younger brother, Shin, has run away from home! Then, when a photo of Minami, Nakatsu and Sano appears in a girl's fashion magazine, then men of Hana-Kimi find themselves stalked...and propositioned!