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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"[A] dark and funny satire . . . Infidelities, secret identities and double-crosses . . . Reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spying on its own people." -The Wall Street Journal
Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international terrorism, leaven it with dark, dry humor, toss in a love rectangle, give everybody a gun, and let everything play out in the outer reaches of upstate New York--there...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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Description
In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Boy series volume 3
Publisher
Avon Trade
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Jane Harris and Cal Langdon accompany their best friends, Holly and Mark, on a planned elopement to Italy, they are forced to come to the rescue when the Italian government refuses to marry the pair without a special form.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Thea Wyndham and Mitchell Baker are named joint guardians of their late friends' three children, the two virtual strangers must find a way to become a family, despite being romantically involved with other people.
Author
Series
Derek Fallon books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Derek wants to train his pet monkey to help Umberto, a new student who uses a wheelchair, but Umberto would rather steal Derek's cartoon ideas.
Author
Series
Molly Masters mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Greeting-card entrepreneur Molly Masters leads a creative writing workshop in the mountains and finds herself facing a murderer among the seemingly ordinary suburban women at a weekend writing workshop.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Although not very good at sports or in his schoolwork, Jimmy can draw and dreams of being a great cartoonist; that dream seems within reach when star athlete Charley Beemer suggests they create comics together.
11) Class act
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. The audiobook was a 2020 Audie Awards Finalist for Middle Grade and named an Audible Best Audiobook of the Year.
This time, it's Jordan's friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny,
...Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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, shared a moment of passion the summer before, and have returned to see what happens next. In the wicked events that follow, both of their lives completely unravel"--
13) The bridge
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Returning to his hometown of Eno, North Carolina, with his family after he is fired from his job in New York, newspaper cartoonist Pick Cantrell must face the ghosts of his past in the form of family matriarch Mama Lucy.
Author
Series
Molly Masters mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dress rehearsal for the PTA fundraiser is at its chaotic peak when one of the seven identical clowns cavorting on stage pulls out a gun and shoots the director, Corrinne Buldock. Molly Masters, also dressed as a clown, is a stunned and baffled witness to the killing. She wonders: which of her fellow performers, all of them respectble parents and teachers, can conceivably be a murderer?
15) Just breathe
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Patterson's Bluff volume 1
Publisher
Entangled Amara
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"American Angie Donovan has never wanted much. When you grow up getting bounced from foster home to foster home, you learn not to become attached to anything, anyone, or any place. But it only took her two days to fall in love with Australia. With her visa clock ticking, surely she can fall in love with an Australian--and get hitched--in two months. Especially if he's as hot and funny as her next-door neighbor ... Jace Walters has never wanted much--except...
Author
Series
Cat Royal volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Orphan red-haired Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.
Author
Series
Ellie McDoodle volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ellie writes and doodles in a journal about her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.
19) Winter in Sokcho
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North's watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. The two form an uneasy relationship....
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down? At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia and missed even more school. Before Jimmy knew it, his grades were sinking and nothing seemed to be going right. How did Jimmy turn things around, get back...