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2) Shy ninja
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"Eleven-year-old Rena suffers from social anxiety disorder. It keeps her from engaging at school, hanging out with her best friend in person, or participating in any sort of group activity. But when, on a dare, she enrolls in a fake-sounding 'school for ninjas,' she quickly learns it's no joke! Immediately, Rena's caught up in an ancient prophecy--that she will become the ninja master known as 'The Ghost'! Assuming she can conquer her own anxieties,...
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"In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. She lives alone in a swamp made of ink, but with the help of Polaris, a will-o'-the-wisp, she embarks for the fabled Northern Kingdom, where she might find people like her. The only way to get there, though, is to travel the strange and dangerous Blue Road that stretches to the horizon like a mark upon a page. Along the way, Lacuna must overcome trials such...
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Queen Victoria is on the throne and below London's streets five orphans have made Bazalgette's wonderous invention their home. When a young Russian girl is kidnapped the five decide to step in to try and get her back to her family. Aimee needed a saviour; she found Five Against the World.
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Join young Olianna and her family & friends as she tries to learn life's mundane lessons while practicing magic in a world of giants, trolls, and dragons! Lessons like: enjoying the finer points of school, bullies and all; getting along with her sorceress mother and knightly father while not getting along too well with family friends, The Three Stooges, I mean, Knights!; and finally, last but not least, controlling her urges to kill her baby brother...
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The President and his senior advisors are responding to an extraordinary flash of light that detonated high above the Pacific Ocean just a few hours ago. An uneasy calm ensues...until a holographic message of alien origin suddenly appears in the Oval Office. Mr. Tremendous, Senior Executive Authority for Interstellar Transport, has misplaced "a very valuable piece of IT property" somewhere in Yosemite. He wants if back. Immediately. A terrifying display...
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From the time she was little, Althalia's abuela taught her about their culture; there was music, there was food, there was history, and then there was magic. The magic of the brujas.
Althalia, along with her two companions, Dana, a were-coyote, and Chuey, a chupacabra, uses her abuela's training to help and assist others from all manner of spirits, demons, hell beasts, and even priests who seek the brujas destruction.
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For those that enjoy the fantasy adventures of Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Dungeons and Dragons! Welcome to Dagruum, a port city plagued with pirates, thieves, and greedy nobles. Felosial, an elf with a penchant for magic, and her best friend Bakar, a down-on-his-luck dwarf, are both searching for new opportunities after Bakar loses his beloved restaurant to a gang of dangerous criminals. After stumbling upon a deal between thieves gone wrong,...
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The thrilling graphic biography of the unforgettable Nat Love, from acclaimed authors Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack Jr., is now in paperback!
Born into slavery in 1854, Nat Love, also known as Deadwood Dick, grew up to become the most famous African American cowboy in the Old West. A contemporary and acquaintance of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, Nat was widely known as an expert roper and driver, a crack shot, and a real Wild...
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The second book in the delightfully sweet Heartstopper series, featuring beautiful two-color artwork!
Nick and Charlie are best friends, but one kiss has changed everything. In the aftermath, Charlie is sure that Nick isn't interested, but Nick is more confused than ever.
Love works in surprising ways, and Nick comes to see the world from a new perspective. He discovers all sorts of things about his friends, his family... and himself.
11) Lifetime passes
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In this darkly comedic YA graphic novel, a group of teens starts a program to bring senior citizens to a local theme park to take advantage of the unofficial park policy: If someone dies on the property, the rest of their party is given lifetime passes!
12) Brooms
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"It's 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those who need the money, or the thrills...it's there to be found. Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They're determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that allows Black folks to legally use magic and take part in national...
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2010 Maverick Award winner, 2011 Aesop Prize Winner – Children's folklore section, and a 2011 Eisner Award Nominee. All cultures have tales of the trickster – a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to...
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Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out. This edition features beautiful two-color artwork.
Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance.
But Nick is struggling with...
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The third volume in the poignant and sweet Heartstopper series, featuring beautiful two-color artwork!
Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom.But coming out isn't something that happens just once, and Nick and Charlie try to figure out when to tell their friends that they're dating. Not being out to their classmates gets even harder during...
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Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends because their dorm rooms were next to each other. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.
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The fourth volume in the wonderfully sweet Heartstopper series, featuring gorgeous two-color artwork.
Charlie and Nick's relationship has been going really well, and Charlie thinks he's ready to say those three little words: I love you. Nick feels the same way, but he's got a lot on his mind -- especially the thought of coming out to his dad and the fact that Charlie might have an eating disorder. As a new school year begins, Charlie and Nick will...
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Four-Color Heroes follows two boys from wildly different worlds who find love and self-discovery through the pages of a comic book. The coming-of-age romance is set in a New Zealand high school prior to the passing of the Civil Union Act 2004 (which allowed same-sex couples to enter into a civil union). As tensions rose nationwide over the basic equal rights of same-sex couples, two boys were fighting a battle on a smaller scale, against enemies from...
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"Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about Bangladesh while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime when a man violently attacks her for wearing a headscarf. Deeply traumatized by the experience, Nisrin spends the summer depressed and isolated. Other than weekly therapy,...