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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1938, Lily Renée Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily's life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents behind and travels alone to England.
Escaping the Nazis is only the start of Lily's journey. She must escape many more times—from servitude, hardship,
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Series
Maus volume Volume 1
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what's necessary. For 50 years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In all, 17,897 strips were published, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being," according to Robert Thompson, professor...
Author
Series
Maus volume Volume 2
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A continuation of the story begun in the Pulitzer Prize winning "Maus," in which the author relates, in cartoon form, his father's experiences as an inmate at Auschwitz during World War II.
5) Doodleville
Author
Series
Doodleville volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 120L
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fans of Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward and Raina Telgemeier's Smile comes an inventive new story from Cardboard Kingdom creator Chad Sell about a group of young artists who must work together when one of their own creations becomes a monster.
Drew is just a regular artist. But there's nothing ordinary about her art. Her doodles are mischievous . . . and rarely do they stay in Doodleville, the world she's created in...
Drew is just a regular artist. But there's nothing ordinary about her art. Her doodles are mischievous . . . and rarely do they stay in Doodleville, the world she's created in...
6) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
320L
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1838, ‘Oliver Twist' is one of the most admired novels by Charles Dickens, an English writer, and social critic. It is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, ""Please, sir, I want some more."" After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty thieves,...
Author
Series
History of Western art in comics volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As two kids give their grandpa a tour of Paris, he starts an interesting conversation with them - about where all the art they see in their lives started"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci is still, today, considered one of the most talent people to have ever lived. From his world famous paintings and drawings, such as the Mona Lisa and the Vitruvian Man, to his ingenious inventions of the parachute, the helicopter, and the military tank, da Vince was always a step ahead of his time. Discover the origins of a man who refused to be defined by just one vocation. Whether science and engineering or architecture...
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An autobiographical and biographical cartoon in which the author explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parent's experiences as Jews in wartime Poland, as told to him by his dad during a series of conversations they had years later in New York and Vermont.
11) MetaMaus
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Part 1 of the DVD-ROM contains a digital reference copy of both volumes of Maus, hyperlinked to an archives of sketches and page drafts, audio clips of Vladek (Spiegelman's survivor father) about his life as a Polish Jew during World War II, as well as documentary source material, video clips, and audio commentary by the cartoonist; pt. 2 contains a collection of supplementary documents, sources, and commentary.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" explores the comics form--and how it has formed him. This illustrated essay looks back at the 1960s as the artist pushes 60, in this collection that alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus reflects on the comics form and its influence on his life and art as he traces his evolution from comics obsessed boy to a neurotic adult exploring...
Author
Series
History of Western art in comics volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this informative graphic novel sequel, two kids and their grandpa continue their adventurous guided exploration of art and civilization beginning with the Renaissance and moving forward into modern art"--
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits.
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