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Author
Language
English
Description
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...
3) Bea Wolf
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A modern middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, featuring a gang of troublemaking kids who must defend their tree house from a fun-hating adult who can instantly turn children into grown-ups. Listen! Hear a tale of mallow-munchers and warriors who answer candy's clarion call! Somewhere in a generic suburb stands Treeheart, a kid-forged sanctuary where generations of tireless tykes have spent their youths making merry, spilling soda, and...
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After three demigods named Jason, Piper, and Leo visit Camp Half-Blood, they inherit a quest: to free Hera, a prisoner of Gaia. But who are the other four demigods mentioned in prophesy who will join them in their quest? The answer may lie in another camp miles away, where a new camper has shown up and appears to be the son of Neptune, god of the sea.
Author
Series
I survived graphic novel volume 4
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City
Author
Series
Beware the Eye of Odin volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The young Viking prince Helgi has inadvertently found the missing Eye of Odin. The problem is that once you touch it, you're cursed to die a horrible death of boils and decay unless you return the Eye to its rightful owner, and the rightful owner just happens to be the King of the Frost Giants. Helgi must now fight his way across the kingdoms of Trolls, Hundrafolk, and Dwarven Smiths in order to return the Eye. By his side are Kadlin, a female warrior...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...
Author
Series
I survived graphic novel volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholatic
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old George Calder can't wait to explore every inch of the Titanic, even if his little sister, Phoebe, has to tag along. But when George sneaks away without her and ventures into the first class baggage room, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever.
Author
Series
Earthseed volume 1
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.
Author
Series
House Atreides volume 2
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"THE OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE GROUNDBREAKING DUNE CONTINUES... Leto Atreides brings news of the revolt brewing on Ix, but the city's leaders make a decision that may threaten everyone, while Crown Prince Shaddam plots to overtake it. Meanwhile, Pardot Kynes begins spreading his edenic vision to terraform the desert planet of Dune into an oasis even as the native Fremen raise suspicions about his motives...and if he can truly accomplish his goals."--Amazon.com....
Author
Series
Sleeping beauties volume 2
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works
Pub. Date
2021-
Language
English
Description
In a near-future where women succumb to a sleeping disease and men revert to their primal natures, one mysteriously immune woman struggles to survive in an Appalachian town where she is treated as both a demon and a lab specimen.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad'Dib, the second of three volumes adapting Frank Herbert's 1965 novel, Dune, young Paul Atreides and his mother, the Lady Jessica, find themselves stranded in the deep desert of Arrakis. Betrayed by their own physician, the treacherous Dr. Yueh, and destroyed by their greatest enemy, the Harkonnens, Paul and Jessica must find the mysterious Fremen or perish. As they continue to unravel the closely guarded secrets...
Author
Series
House Atreides volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the years leading up the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Dune-which inspired the upcoming feature film from Legendary Pictures- DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES transports readers to the far future on the desert planet Arrakis where Pardot Kynes seeks its secrets. * Meanwhile, a violent coup is planned by the son of Emperor Elrood; an eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel masters; and a young man named Leto Atreides begins a fateful...
Author
Series
I survived graphic novel volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, un sello de Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Ten-year-old George Calder can't wait to explore every inch of the Titanic, even if his little sister, Phoebe, has to tag along. But when George sneaks away without her and ventures into the first class baggage room, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Toon Books, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, a division of Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Paul Bunyan tall tale gets felled. In the winter of 1914, a steam locomotive chugs along through Minnesota until an accident halts the journey. The passengers--diverse in skin tone--exit the train and gather around a fire. Soon, stories start flowing to pass the time--tales of larger-than-life strong men Joe Mufferaw, Otto Walta, and George Knox. But these "small fry" are nothing compared to Paul Bunyan, who a timber advertising executive alleges...
17) It's my scoop!
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton Reporter volume 2
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Geronimo Stilton, top reporter for The Rodent's Gazette, has a reputation of breaking the top news stories first to the citizens of New Mouse City. But lately, Sally Ratmousen of rival paper 'The Daily Rat', has been leaking Geronimo's secret scoop! Can Geronimo keep the lid on a surprise celebrity guest to the city's 100 year celebration or will Sally rat him out?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
I survived graphic novel volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, un sello editorial de Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle's little New Jersey town. He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer days. But then comes shocking news: A massive shark has been attacking swimmers in the ocean along the Jersey Shore, not far from where Chet is staying. Fear is in the air. So when Chet spots a gray fin in the creek, he's sure it's his imagination running wild. It's impossible he's about to come...
Author
Series
Sleeping beauties volume 1
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A bizarre sleeping sickness, called Aurora, has fallen over the world. Its victims can't wake up. And all of them are women. As nations fall into chaos, those women still awake take desperate measures to stay that way, and men everywhere begin to give in to their darkest impulses. Meanwhile, in the small town of Dooling, a mysterious woman has walked out of the woods; she calls herself Eve and leaves a trail of carnage in her wake. Strangest of all,...
20) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements - and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revenge.
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