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With a popular comic strip, card line, and children's cartoon to her name, Lucy Brighton should be in a happy place. But the ache of a cold, lonely childhood lingers on. Even though she still lives in the New Jersey house where she grew up, Lucy has had little contact with her parents since they moved to Florida five years ago. Then Lucy receives a call that her parents have been killed in a car crash. While settling their affairs in Florida, Lucy...
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Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 4
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English
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Big Nate Wright is president of P.S. 38, the after school cartooning club. When he doodles his observations in his cartoon notebook: "Mighty Jefferson Middle School always wins," Nate decides it's time to go from zeroes to heroes! Will Nate crack under the pressure of the "Ultimate Snowdown"? Or lead P.S. 38 to its biggest victory ever?
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Cat Kid Comic Club volume 5
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English
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"A brand-new graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey, the internationally bestselling author and illustrator of the Dog Man and Captain Underpants series. In Cat Kid Comic Club, Li'l Petey, Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress, mistakes, and improvements that come with practice and persistence."--Provided...
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Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 3
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English
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Big Nate is on a roll! Nate's a big deal in his scout troop . . . until Artur--aka Mr. Perfect--joins up. Now Nate's stuck in second place. And Artur means business. Will Nate take the grand prize? Or wipe out, big time?
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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English
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Nate Wright's life is just like his locker—it's full of surprises. The monstrous Mrs. Godfrey springs a pop quiz on Nate AND his grandparents. His horoscope predicts bad news for Nate's soccer career. And worst of all, he's forced to cut back on his beloved Cheez Doodles. It's enough to drive any kid crazy. Luckily, Nate's not just any kid. He's the ultimate sixth-grade survivor. When everything's falling apart, he finds a way to hold it
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With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a...
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Cat Kid Comic Club volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
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English
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"The comic club is going in all different directions! Naomi, Melvin, and siblings are each trying to find their purpose. Naomi has an idea to get rich quick that causes a lot of commotion and emotion. And when faced with rejections, the friends try and try again to stay true to their vision. To top it off, a surprise visitor comes to class to stir things up. Will a desire for money and power cloud Naomi's purpose? Is it quitting time? Will the club...
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Runny Babbit lent to wunch And heard the saitress way, "We have some lovely stabbit rew -- Our Special for today." From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends , A Light in the Attic , Falling Up , and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature. Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language...
15) The moth keeper
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Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions"...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"The long-awaited first novel from the acclaimed author of Sam the Cat is a provocative and hilarious satire of love, sex, money, and politics in our new gilded age--for readers of The Nix and This Is Where I Leave You"--
"Two people, who are married to other people, meet at a conference for artists and writers in a charming seaside village much like Provincetown. Rich, a formerly sort-of-famous cartoonist, and Amy, a student of narrative painting,...
18) You Broke It!
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Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Parents will be parents, but the joke is on them in this clever collection of subversive parent-child interactions by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck"--Publisher
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The last comics on earth volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When friends Jack, Quint, June, and Dirk realize they read every issue of their favorite comic, Z-Man, the friends decide to write and illustrate their own comic book.
20) Poppies of Iraq
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
September 2017.
Language
English
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"Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly's nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein's state control, and her family's history as Orthodox Christians in the Arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and...