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BALONEY AND FRIENDS
Greg Pizzoli
Meet Baloney! He's a pig This book is about him And also Peanut, his best friend There's Bizz, too, of course And Drabbit He'd rather not be here, but what can you do?
KATIE THE CATSITTER
written by Colleen AF Venable; art by Stephanie Yue
When Katie gets a job catsitting for her mysterious upstairs neighbor, life gets interesting First, Madeline has 217 cats and they're not exactly normal cats. Also, why is Madeline always out exactly when the city's most notorious villain commits crimes? Is it possible that Katie's upstairs neighbor is really a super villain? ebook
STEPPING STONES
Lucy Knisley
Jen moves out to the country and has to put up with her mom and her mom ' s new boyfriend, as well as his kids Suddenly part of a larger family in a new place, Jen isn't sure there is a place for her in this different world
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Gayle Middleton
Teenage Destiny Harper is at a crossroads in her life
Answering an ad for 'The Night Care Nursery' seems like a great idea, until she is magically transported to Gloomvania, where the world is being mysteriously overrun by baby vampyres called Vamplets! Can Destiny serve her term as Governess of 'The Nightmare Nursery' and return home?
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& Dave Dwonch; art by Amanda Coronado with Bill Blankenship
PAWCASSO
Remy Lai
A delightful graphic novel about friendship and belonging, starring the world's most adorable dog, perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Guts En Español!
SQUISHED
Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter
Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own room instead, and her wild baby brother, Max, moves into the room she already shares with her clinging sister Pearl!
HORSE TROUBLE
Kristin Varner
There's nothing Kate loves more than being around horses But her best friend is allergic to them, so Kate has to take riding lessons without her Kate's forced to navigate some of life's hardships--like the mean girls at the stable who tease her and her body insecurities-all on her own
THE OKAY WITCH
Emma Steinkellner
When thirteen-year-old Moth Hush learns she comes from a long line of witches, she unlocks a hidden witch world, where secrets from generations past unravel and the heart of her town and her family are threatened
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PARANORTHERN AND THE CHAOS BUNNY A-HOPCALYPSE
Chanani
PASHMINA Nidhi
An Indian-American teen, Priyanka "Pri" Das, attempts to reconnect with her mother's homeland through a magical pashmina shawl
written by Stephanie Cooke; art by Mari Costa
A witch named Abby and her three friends - a wolf-girl, a ghost, and a pumpkinheadband together to try and save their supernatural town from an invasion of rabid (but adorable) chaos bunnies
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THE MOTH KEEPER K. O'Neill
Kit is excited to prove her worth as a Moth-Keeper, a protector of the lunar moths that allow the Night-Lily flower to bloom once a year, but she quickly finds that life as a Moth-Keeper is not what she imagined it would be ebook
ASTRONAUTS: WOMEN ON THE FINAL FRONTIER
written by Jim Ottaviani; art by Maris Wicks
The U S may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space program that made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space It took years to catch up, but soon NASA's first female astronauts were racing past milestones of their own. The trail-blazing women of Group 9, NASA's first mixed gender class, discovered that NASA had plenty to learn about how to make space travel possible for everyone
For Teens!
MISFIT CITY
written by Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith and Kurt Lustgarten; art by Naomi Franquiz
Nothing's happened in Wilder's hometown since they filmed that cult kids' adventure movie there in the 80s Until one day, she and her friends come upon a centuries-old pirate map!
REAL FRIENDS
written by Shannon Hale; art
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LeUyen Pham with Jane Poole
Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale and New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham join forces in this graphic memoir about how hard it is to find your real friends--and why it's worth the journey When her best friend Adrienne starts hanging out with the most popular girl in class, Shannon questions with whether she and Adrienne will stay friends, and if she is part of the clique
DELILAH DIRK AND THE TURKISH LIEUTENANT
Lovable ne 'er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an Indiana Jones for the 19th century She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights her way through the countryside
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YUZU THE PET VET Mingo Ito
For an 11-year-old, Yuzu has a lot on her plate When her mom gets sick and has to be hospitalized, Yuzu goes to live with her uncle who runs the local animal hospital Yuzu's always been scared of animals, but she tries to help out Then an encounter with a boy and his dog turns fear into a desire to learn And as Yuzu works hard to understand her fuzzy friends, they begin to feel comfortable around each other
Tony Cliff
PING PONG
Taiyo Matsumoto
Ace high school table tennis players push their passion to the limit in this story of selfdiscovery Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto doesn't smile even though he's got a natural talent for playing ping pong As one of the best players in school, all hopes are on him to win the regional high school tournament, but winning is not what Smile really wants to do Will the fierce competition to be number one bring out his best or drive him away from the game?
For Adults!
BATMAN: EGO AND OTHER TAILS
Darwyn Cooke with various artists
Eisner-award winning artist and accomplished writer Darwyn Cooke's iconic imagery culminates in this collection of pulse-pounding stories featuring unique visions of Batman and Catwoman
HUNGRY GHOST
Victoria Ying
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin No one, not even her best friend, Jordan, knows that she has been bingeing and purging for years But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself reassessing her priorities, her choices, and her body The path to happiness may lead her away from her hometown and her mother’s toxic projections but first she will have to find the strength to seek help
LAND OF THE DEAD
written by Brian McDonald; art by Toby Cypress
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OUR COLORS
Gengoroh Tagame
Sora Itoda wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school, but that is still not acceptable in Japanese society Sora's world changes forever when he meets Mr Amamiya, a middle-aged gentleman who is the owner and proprietor of a local coffee shop, and who is unapologetically out as a gay man A mentorship and platonic friendship ensues, as Sora comes out to him and agrees to paint a mural in the shop, and Mr Amamiya counsels him about how to deal with who he is But it won't be easy.
AFTER THE RAIN
written by John Jennings; art by David Brame
A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive Based on a short story by Nnedi Okorafor
Wielding his massive experience from film, tv, comics, and more, Brian McDonald lays out a history of storytelling and shows the reader how the best tales tug at our truest biological instinct: the need to survive Readers will see how different forms of survival--physical, emotional, spiritual--inform the arc of character development in a way that makes them more complex and compelling And how plot and circumstance must then force your protagonist to meet their worst nightmare
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THE NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE
written by James Tynion IV; art by Álvaro Martínez Bueno with Jordie Bellaire
Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter--well, they know him a little, anyway Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago And Walter's always been a little off But after the hardest year of their lives, nobody was going to turn down Walter's invitation to an astonishingly beautiful house in the woods, overlooking an enormous sylvan lake It's beautiful, it's opulent, it's private--so a week of putting up with Walter's weird little schemes and nicknames in exchange for the vacation of a lifetime? Why not? All of them were at that moment in their lives when they could feel themselves pulling away from their other friends; wouldn't a chance to reconnect be nice?
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THIEVES
Lucie Bryon
Ella can't seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger's mansion, and she sure as heck doesn't know why she's woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie's nest of objects that aren't her own And she can't stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can't tell about her sudden penchant for kleptomania But does Maddy have secrets of her own?
IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
Zoe Thorogood
Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records six months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate metanarrative that looks into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival
LORE OLYMPUS
Rachel Smythe
Persephone, young goddess of spring, is new to Olympus When her roommate, Artemis, takes her to a party, her entire life changes: she ends up meeting Hades and feels an immediate spark with the charming yet misunderstood ruler of the Underworld Now Persephone must navigate the confusing politics and relationships that rule Olympus, while also figuring out her own place-and her own power
THE NIGHT EATERS
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
Chinese American twins, Milly and Billy, are having a tough time Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit When Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door--a hellish and run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder--the twins are in for a nasty surprise A night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem reveals that there is much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye
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Special Guests!
Gene Ha
Abbie discovered a portal to a fantasy world as a child. Now she has returned home a hero, but her tales are too hard for her sister Mae to believe--until the monsters start to cross over to our world
I HATE THIS PLACE
Kyle Starks
After inheriting a farmhouse, Trudy and Gabby are ready to start the next chapter of their lives together except it's already home to a mysterious force that's attracted ghosts aliens and all kinds of supernatural beings for decades Now Gabby and Trudy must play by the "house rules "
VINYL
An unsettling tale of psychopaths, sweet love, and a serial killer named Walter When Walter's best friend-the FBI agent charged with his capture--is kidnapped by a death cult of all-female sunflower farmers, Walter finds himself deep within an underground labyrinth filled with secrets and monsters but are their monsters more horrific than his?
QUINCREDIBLE
Quinton West went from being a small guy getting beaten up to a small guy with the superpower of invulnerability To supplement his only superpower, he realizes he can use his hobby of creating Rube Goldberg devices to outsmart opponents.
BTTM FDRS
Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago's south side, the "Bottomyards" is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home.
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MAE
written by Doug Wagner; art by Daniel Hillyard with Dave Stewart
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written by Rodney Barnes; art by Selina Espiritu ebook
written by Ezra Claytan Daniels; art by Ben Passmore ebook
