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Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Paige Turner and her family move to New York City from rural Virginia, she tries to make sense of her new life through her sketchbook, and it helps bring her true personality into the open, a process that is equal parts terrifying and rewarding.
3) New kid
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tié̂n still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tié̂n, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Planet, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"This fractured fairy tale weaves the story of Marilla Paulo. After the talented swimmer saves her classmate Denys when he is pushed into a pool, they become friends. She teaches him how to swim, and he encourages her love of singing despite her parents' wishes. But with a big swim meet and singing competition coming up, a jealous teammate offers to help Marilla get an audition slot if she throws their match. Will Marilla sink or swim?"--
Author
Publisher
Éditions Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
"Le carnet de croquis de Dany a recommencé à faire des folies. Mais cette fois, ce n'est pas la faute de Dany! Son amie Madison et elle vivent dans une nouvelle réalité. Les deux amies croient maintenant qu'elles sont jumelles, et ce n'est pas la seule partie de leur vie qui a été complètement remaniée. Leur mère est auteure, leur père est une vedette du rock et Dany est soudainement devenue très bonne élève. Mais quelque chose ne colle...
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"'Robin? Robin? Robin?! Where are you?' She couldn't have gone far... Right? Princesses don't run away to have their own adventures. Princesses stay quietly and obediently at home. They would never want mermaids and swamps and pirates and getting kidnapped to be a part of their lives. Not this princess! Adventures await when Robin (bored of princess-ing all the time) embarks on the best adventure of her life--meeting friends along the way as she travels...
Author
Series
Space-time (Jeffrey Brown) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Jide and Petra are just two normal kids until they are selected to leave Earth and join their new alien classmates on an intergalactic research mission to Mars. Too bad Jide has no idea how she ended up in the program, seeing as the closest she wants to get to space is being a sci-fi writer. Petra, on the other hand, is the brains of the mission, but his helicopter parents make it clear he hasn't left their gravitational pull behind quite yet."--Provided...
9) Level up
Author
Language
English
Description
Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
Author
Publisher
Action Lab Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Alison has built Robot to simply help her have fun, but it's not so simple. It turns out she has to teach Robot about life, mainly from the point of a 7-year-old girl. Join the cast of Alison, Robot, five penguins and a monkey friend Andrew, an 80's music loving father, a serious mom that just wants a break, a cartoon Alton Brown and a cartoon Fred Chao" --
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Scarper Lee's world, parents don't make children--children make parents. Scarper's father is his pride and joy, a wind-powered brass construction with a following sail. His mother is a Bakelite hairdryer. In this world, it rains knives and household appliances have souls. There are no birthdays--only deathdays. Scarper knows he has just three weeks to live. As his deathday approaches, he is forced from his routine and strikes out into the unknown--where...
Author
Series
Motherless oven volume 2
Publisher
Selfmadehero
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Vera lives in the cruel world of Grave Acre. Her mother is the Weather Clock, the megalomaniacal Prime Minister of Chance. Her father is a can opener. Charting Vera's childhood, the second part of Rob Davis' trilogy takes us from her home in Parliament to suicide school, and from the Bear Park to the black woods that lie beyond. In the present day, Vera and Castro Smith are determined to see their friend Scarper again - but is he even still alive?...
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Marlin, a clownfish, teams up with a forgetful but friendly Blue Tang named Dory to find his son Nemo in this collection of the films retold as comics! Along the way they'll meet new friends and they'll discover just how much Dory is capable of in this heartwarming undersea adventure that brings DisneyPixar's Finding Nemo and Finding Dory from the screen to your fingertips!"--
16) Bad friends
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power...
17) Family night
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Judy Hopps is finally getting to spend some one-on-one time with her dad! They're headed on a father-daughter camping trip, and Judy will earn a special Bunny Scout badge while she's at it! The great outdoors sounds like an adventure to Judy, but her dad is more concerned about running into bears and foxes. Then when bad weather ruins their plans, Judy's dad comes up with an alternative that isn't what she had in mind. But her night ends up full...
18) Finding Dory
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dory just keeps swimming as she tries to figure out how she got separated from her parents."--provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A moving collection of six short stories that explores what must be stripped away to find the truth and celebrates the beauty of embracing who you are. Chiaki Ogawa has never doubted who he is, although the rest of the world hasn't been as kind. Bound by his mother's dying wish, Chiaki tries to be a good daughter to his ailing father. But when the burden becomes too great, Chiaki sets out to remake himself in his own image and discovers more than...
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