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Author
Series
Olympians volume 10
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retells in graphic novel format the stories from Greek mythology featuring Hermes
"Born in a cave to a self-banished mother, clever, mischievous, unrelenting Hermes is a handful from his first day in the world. From infancy, when he bewitches fifty cows and bends them to his will to play a joke on his older half-brother Apollo, to his adolescence and adulthood when he becomes father to the equally mischievous Pan, Hermes's story is wildly entertaining...
Author
Series
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser saga volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Fritz Leiber ranks among the giants of fantasy and science fiction visionaries, capturing multiple Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards and influencing a generation of writers. And his most renowned creations are the swashbuckling Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories. Collected here are adaptations of some of the finest of these tales. Join the hulking barbarian and the diminutive rogue as they battle swordsmen, necromancers, and flagons of strong...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this modern retelling, Anne is fostered into the West Philly home of siblings Marilla and Matthew, and while she initially has a hard time at school, she ends up joining the robotics team and competes for a spot in an elite STEM program
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Heavily influenced by his childhood in British-ruled India, Rudyard Kipling created some of the most well-read children's stories in western culture. Originally published as a series of short stories for magazines in the late 1800s, the Nobel Prize-winning Rudyard Kipling would eventually publish the classic The Jungle Book in 1894
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
What do the residents of Animal Crossing: New Horizons get up to when you're not around? Find out all about their antics in this hilarious manga filled with goofy gags and silly stories! Get ready for even more charming characters from Animal Crossing: New Horizons to show up for all the fun! K.K. Slider might even drop by the island!
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Retells the story of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family that lives in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed region called Encanto--a wondrous place whose magic becomes threatened and whose rescue depends on the only member of the Madrigal family who doesn't possess magical gifts"--
7) Cars
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Racing star Lightning McQueen gets lost on his way to his next big race, but he learns there's more to life during his stay at Radiator Springs. "--provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a graphic-novel adaptation of the classic spine-tingler, the grandson of the story's original author depicts the eerie town and their shocking ritual in detailed four-color panels that breathe new life into the iconic tale
9) The Iliad
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced off in an epic battle that rewrote history--the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer's legendary account of this decade-long ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this thoroughly researched and artfully rendered graphic novel, renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of Homer's epic. Dynamic illustrations...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"One hundred pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Atonement, conveniently organized by subjects including "Love," "Sex," "Death," and "Female Trouble.""--
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club) volume 1
Publisher
Maeva Young
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia y Stacey son amigas del alma y fundadoras de El Club de las Baby-sitters. Pase lo que pase -- niños quejicas, perros enormes, vecinos que dan miedo o bromas telefónicas --, ellas son capaces de resolverlo
Follows the adventures of Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club as they deal with crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents who do not always tell the truth. A graphic novel based...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie, who find a magic tree house which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murry, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract - a wrinkle that transports one across space and time - to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murry is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murry...
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
Author
Series
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic tree house volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to an island in the Caribbean where they dig up buried treasure with real-life pirates."--
Author
Series
Ham Helsing volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ham Helsing and his crew are back to fight more monsters at mysterious Camp Fish Head Lake
18) Romeo and Juliet
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Romeo and Juliet is the classic tragedy of western literature. Created by William Shakespeare, it is tale of two very young lovers from Verona, Italy who defy the wishes of their feuding families, get married then, and tragically, end their own lives in the name of love. It is their deaths that ultimately help the rival families of the Capulet's and Montague's find reconciliation. Manga Classics brings an incredible new reading experience with this...
Author
Publisher
Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The beloved New York Times best-selling YA fantasy by Kristin Cashore is now available as a graphic novel, with stunning illustrations by award-winning artist Gareth Hinds. Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she lived a life of privilege until the day her ability to kill a man with her bare hands revealed itself during a royal banquet. Now she acts as her uncle's enforcer, traveling the...
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