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Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
by Barry Deutsch
Longing to fight dragons over taking the advice of various family members, spunky 10-year-old Mirka Herschberg hones her skills in her Orthodox Jewish community before accepting a challenge from a witch to defeat a giant troll, in a story inspired by an award-nominated web comic.
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Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute
by Jarrett Krosoczka
The school lunch lady--who is a secret crime fighter--uncovers an evil plot to replace all the popular teachers with robots.
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Snapdragon
by Kat Leyh
Befriending an eccentric but savvy older woman who suggests that they help each other while raising a litter of orphaned baby opossums, a young girl discovers that the woman may possess real magic and a possible connection to her family.
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The Adventures of Captain Underpants
by Dav Pilkey
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
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Dog Man
by Dav Pilkey
A debut installment of a new series by the creator of Captain Underpants follows the heroic adventures of Greg the police dog who, after being injured on the job at the side of his police officer companion, makes history through a life-saving surgery that transforms him into Dog Man.
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Sidekicks
by Dan Santat
When Captain Amazing feels he is getting too old to be a reliable superhero, he tries to hire a new sidekick, but his pets have different ideas
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Not Your Average Princess
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Diana: Princess of the Amazons
by Shannon Hale
Eleven-year-old Diana, the gangly, sometimes clumsy, only child on the island of Themyscira, struggles to live up to the high Amazonian standards and longs for someone her own age whom she can talk to.
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Rapunzel's Revenge
by Shannon Hale
Using her long, braided hair as a lasso, Rapunzel teams up with a wild outlaw named Jack and heads west to start a brand new life filled with grand adventures and crazy characters in this colorful graphic novel.
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Princess Princess Ever After
by Katie O'Neill
When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, the two band together to defeat a jealous sorceress with a dire grudge against Sadie.
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Princeless: Save Yourself
by Jeremy Whitley
Locked in a tower with her sisters and tired of waiting to be rescued by a prince, Princess Adrienne, her sidekick Bedelia, and her guardian dragon Sparky begin a quest to save themselves.
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Friendships with Mythical Creatures
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The Stonekeeper (Amulet Series)
by Kazu Kibuishi
After moving into an old ancestral home, Emily and Navin's mother is kidnapped and dragged down the basement stairs by a mysterious creature, and after giving chase, the kids find themselves in a magical but dangerous world of man-eating demons, a mechanical rabbit, and shadowy enemies.
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The Tea Dragon Society
by Kay O'Neill
After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about the dying art form of Tea Dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners.
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Phoebe and Her Unicorn: A Heavenly Nostril Chronicle
by Dana Simpson
It all started when Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this led to Phoebe being granted one wish, and she used it to make the unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, her obligational best friend. But can a vain mythical beast and a 9-year-old daydreamer really forge a connection? Indeed they can. This beautifully drawn strip follows the unlikely friendship between a somewhat awkward girl and the unicorn who gradually shows her just how special she really is. Through hilarious adventures where Phoebe gets to bask in Marigold's "awesomeness," the friends also come to acknowledge that they had been lonely before they met and truly appreciate the bond they now share.
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Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy
by Barry Deutsch
A first graphic-novel adaptation in the best-selling series follows the selection of Clay as one of a team of dragonets destined to fulfill a mysterious prophecy and end the war among the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia.
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Exploring Galactic Worlds
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Zita the Spacegirl: Far from Home
by Ben Hatke
When young Zita discovers a device that opens a portal to another place, and her best friend is abducted, she is compelled to set out on a strange journey from star to star in order to get back home.
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Hope Larson
A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Target Practice (Cleopatra in Space series)
by Mike Maihack
Mysteriously zapped thousands of years forward to the present day, a 15-year-old Cleopatra discovers that she is destined to save the galaxy from a tyrannical overlord, a prophecy that compels her to enroll in a high-tech school where she can learn modern subjects, alien languages and combat fighting.
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Fitting in and Friendships
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Be Prepared
by Vera Brosgol
Believing Russian summer camp will be the place she finally fits in, Vera jumps at the chance to sign up, but very quickly discovers that camp is nothing like she imagined.
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Awkward
by Svetlana Chmakova
After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member.
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New Kid
by Jerry Craft
Enrolled in a prestigious private school where he is one of only a few students of color, talented seventh grade artist Jordan finds himself torn between the worlds of his Washington Heights apartment home and the upscale circles of Riverdale Academy.
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Oddly Normal
by Otis Frampton
Ten-year-old half-witch girl Oddly Normal must travel to the magical land of Fignation in order to find her missing parents, navigating a new school, bullies, and evil along the way.
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Making Friends
by Kristen Gudsnuk
When she and her friends are placed in different classes and begin exploring separate interests at the start of seventh grade, Danny inherits a magic sketchbook and uses it to create a perfect best friend, with unexpected results. By the creator of the Henchgirl comic series.
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Real Friends
by Shannon Hale
The Newbery Honor-winning author of Princess Academy traces the roller-coaster challenges of first friendships as demonstrated by her own experiences from kindergarten through fifth grade, years marked by cliques, bullies and her efforts to gain popularity. Illustrated by the best-selling artist of the Princess in Black series.
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Roller Girl
by Victoria Jamieson
A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart.
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Twins
by Varian Johnson
Featuring graphic art by the illustrator of Edwidge Danticat's My Mommy Medicine, a series debut by the Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of The Parker Inheritance finds twins Maureen and Francine distinguishing themselves for the first time by pursing separate interests at the beginning of the sixth grade.
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Stepping Stones
by Lucy Knisley
Reluctantly joining a newly blended family involving a stepfather and stepsisters on a farm far from her city home, Jen practices new skills and navigates private insecurities before finding acceptance in unexpected places. A first children's graphic novel by the award-winning creator of Relish.
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Invisible Emmie
by Terri Libenson
The lives of two middle school girls, one a quiet artist, the other a popular overachiever, intersect on a day shaped by a misdelivered note, crushes, humiliations, boredom and drama. A first graphic novel.
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Click
by Kayla Miller
When a school variety show leaves Olive stranded without an act to join, she wonders why all of her friends have already formed their own groups without her.
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The Witch Boy
by Molly Ostertag
When a boy goes missing during a night of shapeshifting, thirteen-year-old Astor risks going against family tradition by using his magic to help locate him.
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Nat Enough
by Maria Scrivan
An insecure middle school student is abandoned by her popularity-minded best friend at the beginning of a new school year before learning how to focus on who she really is, instead of what she isn't. By the award-winning creator of the Half Full comic.
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Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy
by Noelle Stevenson
Best friends Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley spend a fun summer at Lumberjane scout camp where they encounter yetis, three-eyed wolves, and giant falcons while solving a mystery that holds the fate of the world in the balance.
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The Babysitter's Club: Kristy's Great Idea
by Raina Telgemeier
Adapted by the Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile, a graphic novel rendering of the first entry in the best-selling series introduces the original members of the Baby-Sitters Club when one of them suggests that they organize their efforts into a business.
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Smile
by Raina Telgemeier
In this coming-of-age true story, Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader, but one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear and even a retainer with fake teeth attached--on top of all that, there's a major earthquake, boy confusion and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.
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Séance Tea Party
by Reimena Yee
Dreading the idea of growing up to become an adult who can never have fun, play outdoors or use her imagination, young Lora reconnects with an imaginary friend who she discovers is a ghost in her house, before realizing that she cannot stay a child herself forever.
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Graphic Novels for Cat Lovers
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CatStronauts: Mission Moon
by Drew Brockington
An elite group of cat astronauts, from daring commander Major Meowser to ever-hungry pilot Waffles, fearlessly and hilariously embark on a space mission to save the world from a global energy shortage.
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Warriors: Ravenpaw's Path
by Dan Jolley
Ravenpaw, a former ThunderClan apprentice, lives in peace outside the warrior Clans until five rogue cats from Twolegplace come to the barn where he lives and he must fight to save his new home.
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The Complete Chi's Sweet Home Part 1
by Kanata Konami
Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Separated from the warmth and protection of her mother, feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow, when she is suddenly rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm and inviting Yamada family apartment where pets are strictly not permitted.
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales
by Brian Michael Bendis
Miles Morales joins the Avengers and engages in such adventures as fighting alone against a villain with the power to destroy the universe, tangling with Black Cat, and going on a possible date with Ms. Marvel.
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Marvel Rising: Heroes of the Round Table
by Nilah Magruder
In a series compilation collecting Issues 1-5, Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel recruit the Inhuman Inferno and former S.H.I.E.L.D agent Daisy Johnson to help defend against the swarming forces of Morgan Le Fay, who wants to transform their New Jersey home into a modern Camelot.
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Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
by Sidney Jacobson
Drawing on the archives and expertise of the Anne Frank House, the best-selling authors of 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation cover the short-but-inspiring life of the famed Jewish teen memoirist, from the lives of her parents to Anne's years keeping her private diary while hidden from the Nazis to her untimely death in a concentration camp.
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When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson
A Somali refugee who spent his childhood at the Dadaab camp and the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl present the graphic-novel story of a young refugee who struggles with leaving behind his nonverbal brother when he has an opportunity to help his family by going to school.
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To Dance: A Memoir
by Siena Cherson Siegel
In graphic format, the author shares her story of how, after being diagnosed with flat feet, she decided to take ballet classes at the age of six and was accepted to the School of American Ballet when she was eleven.
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Nonfiction Graphic Novels
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Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction
by Saul Griffith
Siblings Celine and Tucker use scientific and engineering principles to experiment with everyday objects, completing such projects as turning a soda bottle into an underwater scope and a turkey baster into a flute.
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Zeus: King of the Gods
by George O'Connor
The first title in a new graphic novel series introduces the Greek ruler of the Olympian pantheon, recounting his story from boyhood to his adventure-filled ascendance to supreme power. By the creator of Journey into Mohawk Country.
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Graphic Novels for Disney Lovers
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Disney Aladdin: Four Tales of Agrabah
by Corinna Bechko
A graphic novel anthology takes readers through the vibrant city of Agrabah in four interconnected tales based on Disney's all-new live-action film that follows Aladdin, Jasmine, Genie and their friends. Movie tie-in.
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Descendants: Twisted Field Trip
by Jen Vaughn
While on a special field trip in Sherwood Forest, the students of Auradon are separated into teams and learn that working together is the key to success and survival.
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Graphic Novels Based on Books
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Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel
by Michael Moreci
Twelve-year-old criminal genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by kidnapping a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold.
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The City of Ember: The Graphic Novel
by Jeanne DuPrau
A faithful graphic adaptation of the wildly popular novel about two children who endeavor to find answers and escape a doomed city features evocative images of such story elements as glaring lamps, dingy streets and a brilliant first sunrise.
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Coraline
by P. Craig Russel
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door in her new home and into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Hope Larson
A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman
A single-volume compilation of the graphic novel adaptations of the first book in Philip Pullman's modern classic trilogy collects the full story of Lyra's early days at Oxford, her journey to the far north to rescue the kidnapped children, her hot-air balloon escape and her role in Asriel's plot to build a bridge to another world.
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The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel
by Robert Venditti
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
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