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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...
2) Just breathe
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With Chicago and her marriage in the rearview mirror, cartoonist Sarah Moon flees to the small northern California coastal town where she grew up. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she'd skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he's been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah...
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ABDO Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Provides a biography of comic book artist and inker John Buscema best known for his work on various Marvel comics including the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, Conan the Barbarian, and others.
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Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A biography of cartoonist Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Incredible Hulk. Describes his youth during the Great Depression in New York and his early love for the movies and for writing and illustrating his own stories. Explains how he got his start in comics and eventually became publisher of Marvel Comics.
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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The largest and most comprehensive book of James Stokoe's art ever published! Featuring art and never-before-published work and comics!
This deluxe hardcover artbook showcases the work of inimitable comics creator James Stokoe, who has drawn some of the most visually meticulous and surreal illustrations in modern comics, featuring some of his bestselling illustrations from works such as Orc Stain, Aliens: Dead Orbit, Wonton Soup, well-known cover...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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A portrait of the late creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip evaluates how his career was shaped by his midwestern working-class origins, family losses, and wartime experiences, offering insight into how familiar storylines closely reflected Schulz's private life.
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2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Even as a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college, his comic strip Igdoof was so popular that it spread to other universities! Still, Jeff faced challenges. His cartoons were rejected by syndicates that claimed his art was unprofessional. Then, an idea struck: Jeff would write a journal from the perspective of a child, illustrated with doodles just like a kid might do. And so, the Diary...
17) Class act
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New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together.
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Inspired by Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this is Vaughan's love letter to his chosen medium, a story about what it takes to start out with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio, and end up with a comic so hot a major corporation wants to steal it from you! Brilliantly interweaving the lives of the creators with the world of their creation, artists Steve Rolston and Philip Bond bring the comic-booking...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.
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