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1) Black Orchid
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
A plant/human hybrid superhero called Black Orchid goes on a spiritual journey in the wake of her death, during which she reviews her life, investigates her origins, and is given the opportunity to avenge herself.
2) Hamlet
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The works of William Shakespeare come alive in these stunning graphic novels adaptation using the original Shakespearean dialog. The world-class art, murder, revenge, and intrigue of Hamlet will capture the attention of reluctant readers. Supplement your traditional Shakespearean sources with the graphic novel adaptation that will help readers imagine the action like never before.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Code Word: Geronimo is the amazing, moment-by-moment story of the clandestine raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. This historical keepsake commemorates the bravery and valor of SEAL Team 6 as it descends into a foreign land and achieves the near impossible.
8) Tin man
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"In Justin Madson's debut graphic novel, Tin Man, a girl and her brother befriend the titular Tin Man with unexpected results. Solar is in her last year of high school and is reeling from the recent death of her grandmother. She has abandoned her plans for the future and fallen in with a bad crowd. Her little brother Fenn doesn't understand why she's changed-she doesn't even want to help him build their rocket in the garage anymore. Campbell is a...
9) The Sculptor
Author
Pub. Date
℗♭2015.
Formats
Description
"David Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Looks can be deceiving in the town on Manson. Small dogs, little girls, husbands and wives... who is prey and who is a fatal mistake? Rachel is determined to find out as she searches for the man who took her life. But her most powerful ally might be the most dangerous of them all, a little girl who secretly fights her own terrible destiny. Night cometh, and Rachel must face her darkest fears to learn the truth"--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Rema chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
c2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Enter the rich and fantastical world of Rema! Tabby Simon is determined to learn what happened to her father, who was found dead after researching a tree that leaks a mysterious mist in her neighborhood. She is unexpectedly led to Rema, a distant world of magic and beauty that is periodically invaded by a nearby planet desperate for resources. While Tabby searches for the truth surrounding her father's death, she meets a handsome blue-haired boy named...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Formats
Description
"Kur©þzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral - the hypnotic secret shape of the world. This bizarre masterpiece of horror manga is now available in a single volume. Fall into a whirlpool of terror!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store
14) Dear Rosie
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Seventh-grader Millie has the best friends in the whole world: Florence, Claire, Gabby, and Rosie, but when Rosie dies in a car accident everything changes. Rocked by grief, the remaining four girls struggle to move on. Millie barely understands her normal pre-teen feelings, let alone the messy ones left behind by Rosie, so she outruns her emotions by throwing herself into a mystery: a cryptic notebook abandoned at her family’s laundromat. Could...
15) I kill giants
Author
Description
Tells the story of Barbara Thorson, an acerbic fifth-grader so consumed with fantasy that she doesn't just tell people that she kills giants with an ancient Norse warhammer - she starts to believe it herself. This book reveals the reasons for Barbara's troubled behavior, as she learns to reconcile her fantasy life with the real world. --
Author
Pub. Date
c2015
Formats
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,...
17) Mother nature
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After witnessing her engineer father die in mysterious circumstances on one of the Cobalt Corporation's experimental oil extraction projects, Nova Terrell has grown up to hate the seemingly benevolent company that the town of Catch Creek, New Mexico, relies on for its livelihood and, thanks to the "Mother Nature" project, its clean water. Haunted by her father's death, the rebellious Nova wages a campaign of sabotage and vandalism on the oil giant's...
18) M is for monster
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frankenstein-inspired graphic novel about ghosts, identity, and family. When Doctor Frances Ai's younger sister Maura died in a tragic accident six months ago, Frances swore she would bring her back to life. However, the creature that rises from the slab is clearly not Maura. This girl, who chooses the name M, doesn't remember anything about Maura's life...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Being Death is a lonely job, especially when everything you touch instantly dies (not to mention the paperwork); but being Sparkles the Last Unicorn is not much fun either, since everyone just wants to take selfies with you or use you to sell stuff--but when Death and Sparkles meet between life and, well, death, it is the beginning of a friendship that just might change the world."--
20) Suncatcher
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Beatriz must play the perfect song in order to free her grandfather's soul from his guitar after he passes away"--