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3) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 510L
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moon is everything Christine isn't. She's confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. When Moon's family moves in next door to Christine's, Moon goes from unlikely friend to best friend--maybe even the perfect friend. The girls share their favorite music videos, paint their toenails when Christine's strict parents aren't around, and...
4) Dragon hoops
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Physical Desc
445 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Gene understands stories--comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him "Stick" and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making....
5) Mooncakes
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 290L
Language
English
Description
"The brand-new deluxe edition of Mooncakes features never-before-seen content from the bewitching graphic novel by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu. Perfect for any collector's bookshelf, the new edition comes in a deluxe hardcover package featuring new cover art and bouns content such as: an introduction by Shadow of the Batgirl's Sarah Kuhn, formally exclusive Patreon materials, and more!" --
"A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
GN 390L
Physical Desc
290 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch" -- Provided by publisher.
7) The flamingo
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 430L
Physical Desc
141 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From a highly acclaimed illustrator comes a stunning graphic novel filled with adventure and wonder about an imaginative girl and her obsession with flamingoes. A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living room, her vacation turns into something fantastical.
Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 420L
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity: the Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that...
Author
Series
My boyfriend is a monster volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
GN 260L
Physical Desc
123 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.
10) Level up
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
IG 360L
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
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
Series
My boyfriend is a monster volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
GN 410L
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Staci Glass feels cursed, whenever there's a crisis, she's stuck in the middle. Now her best friend, Faith, has a new hobby, and against her better judgment, Staci conjures up the courage to go along. They join a trio of wannabe witches for a magical ceremony in an Incan history exhibit. Their chanting is loud enough to raise the dead, it seems. Why else would a shriveled-up mummy go missing, and a mysterious Incan prince suddenly appear? Prince...
Author
Series
My boyfriend is a monster volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
GN 360L
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old New Mexico high school senior Vanessa Shingle learns that she destined to be a monster-hunter like her Van Helsing ancestor, and that the gorgeous janitor she is dating, Jean-Paul, is there to help although he, himself, is a vampire.