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Author
Series
Witches of Brooklyn volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Could there be even MORE witches in Brooklyn?! Effie is EXCITED to meet so many witches, but what is going on with her friends? Suddenly Effie is no longer the newest kid in school, and it seems like her friends are happy to grow their little group, but Effie isn't so sure. On top of that, learning magic is HARD WORK! Effie just wants to have fun being a witch, but her life in Brooklyn is about to get weird(er). The bewitching second book in the...
Author
Series
Walking Dead collections (hardcover) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Formats
Description
A group of people wander a land filled with zombies while trying to find food and shelter, avoid getting bitten, and possibly live normal lives.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online comic, entitled A Fire Story, that went viral... Less than...
Author
Series
Walking Dead collections (hardcover) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Formats
Description
A group of people wander a land filled with zombies while trying to find food and shelter, avoid getting bitten, and possibly live normal lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A beautiful visual exploration of the highs and lows experienced by a parent learning how to adapt to his son's autism. Faced with a challenging road ahead, the author uses creative flair and ingenuity in order to connect with his son, enabling him to reach his fullest potential and prepare him for the transition into adulthood. This stunning insight into the nature of autism and the daily struggles of a parent uses humor and compassion to convey...
Author
Pub. Date
c2015
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Description
"ROSALIE LIGHTNING is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's beautiful and touching graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's journey through loss. Hart uses the graphic form to articulate his and his wife's on-going search for meaning in the aftermath of Rosalie's death, exploring themes of grief, hopelessness,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
13) My Friend Dahmer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmerâthe most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripperâseared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf, Dahmer was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides. In My Friend Dahmer, a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"Flying couch tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy Kurzwil weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother, a psychologist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. The voices and histories of these wise, hilarious, and very different women create a protrait not only of what it means to be part of a family, but also...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"From a childs-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals and insects rather than the unpredictable adults around him. Dandro perceptively details the effects of poverty and addiction on a family while maintaining a childs innocence for as long as he can....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When Jennifer Hayden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43, she realized that her tits told a story. Across a lifetime, they'd held so many meanings: hope and fear, pride and embarrassment, life and death. And then they were gone. Now, their story has become a way of understanding her story: a journey from the innocence of youth to the chaos of adulthood, through her mother's mastectomy, her father's mistress, her husband's music, and...
Author
Series
Walking Dead graphic novels volume 8
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A group of survivors on the outside launch an attack on zombies in a prison where Rick and his group believed they were safe, and the full-scale battle that ensues results in a high body count.