Janice Chiang
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 1
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"Super Hero Girls features DC Comics' most powerful and diverse line-up of female characters as relatable teens, playing out across multiple entertainment content platforms and product categories to create an immersive world. Icons including Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Bumble Bee, Poison Ivy, Katana and many more make their unprecedented teenaged introduction, as each character has her own storyline that explores what teen life...
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Best of 2020: Teen Fiction
DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults
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Graded Summer - 7th/8th Grade
DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults
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Graded Summer - 7th/8th Grade
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Cassandra Cain is the daughter of super-villains and a living weapon trained to be the ultimate assassin, but when her father threatens the world she has grown to love, she will have to overcome that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero.
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Superman Smashes the Klan volume 1
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (teens)
DC Essentials
Graded Summer - 7th/8th Grade
Great Graphic Novels
DC Essentials
Graded Summer - 7th/8th Grade
Great Graphic Novels
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When Dr. Lee moves his family to Metropolis, his son Tommy adjusts to the new neighborhood while daugher Roberta feels out of place, so when the evil Klan of the Fiery Cross begins a string of terrorist attacks on the city, Superman fights them, and Roberta and Superman soon learn to embrace their own unique features that set them apart.
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Earth's new Green Lantern, Jessica Cruz, learns that she must report to Oa and introduce herself to the Green Lantern Corps. Luckily, some of her new friends accompany Jessica. While the spacefaring girls take on an intergalactic threat, the Earthbound students are faced with pet-sitting Krypto! 6 x 9.
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I survived (Graphic novels) volume 4
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"When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City."
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I survived (Graphic novels) volume 3
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A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
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Karen Beecher, Lois Lane, and Harleen Quinzel are the top three students on the leaderboard at Metropolis High, and the upcoming midterms will determine who is the best in the class, but each girl must first face trials from their real lives.
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 7
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The student heroes of Super Hero High must think small in order to rescue the people of Atlantis after the evil Brainiac shrinks the underwater city.
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 3
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Super Hero High is on summer break, so Wonder Woman heads to Mount Olympus to visit her dad, Zeus. But when her jealous brother Ares shows up, the family reunion turns into a family feud, leading Ares to declare war on Metropolis.
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 2
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'Intro to Epics' is one of Wonder Woman's favorite classes at DC Super Hero High, but even for an overachiever, balancing high school literature assignments with learning to be a superhero can be tough. But you know what they say about learning-experience is the best teacher! So when Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy, Katana, and Harley Quinn fight a cyclops, a witch, and a bevy of sirens, they're sure to learn a thing or two...
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"Intro to Epics" is one of Wonder Woman's favorite classes at DC Super Hero High, but balancing high school literature assignments with learning to be a superhero can be tough, even for an overachiever. But you know what they say about learning--experience is the best teacher! So when Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy, Katana, and Harley Quinn fight a cyclops, a witch, and a bevy of sirens, they're sure to learn a thing or two...
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An explosion brings the DC Super Hero Girls to the rescue. As the heroes work to save the day, Lois Lane investigates the incident and discovers that the facts don't line up with the official report. Meanwhile, Batgirl sets up an online dating profile for her dad and gets the perfect candidate. Sparks fly between commissioner Gordon and the mystery woman, but do those sparks mean love, or will they ignite a fuse.
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"It's science fair time at Metropolis High, and the DC Super Hero Girls are very excited--except for Zee Zatara. Magic is her life, and science seems so dull in comparison. When she tries to help her friends with their projects, things keep going wrong. Is her magic causing the science to go haywire? Actually, science is just like being part of a superhero team: when you combine the right ingredients, it's magic."--
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"Tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American woman who was visiting relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trapped in Japan, Iva was pressed to renounce her American citizenship, but refused. As war raged across the Pacific, she took a job with Radio Tokyo-where she was forced to host "Zero Hour," a propaganda show aimed at demoralizing American troops-in the role of Tokyo Rose, the "Siren of the Pacific.""--Publisher's...
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Monkey Prince volume 1
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"Introducing the newest hero in the DC Universe, the great sage, equal to the heavens, better than his predecessor the legendary Monkey King, even better than the Justice League-and definitely the Teen Titans-(actually, all the heroes combined), everyone put your hands together for...the Monkey Prince! Marcus Sun moves around a lot because his adoptive parents are freelance henchpeople, so this month he finds himself as the new kid at Gotham City...
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 3
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Super Hero High is out for summer, which means Wonder Woman has to take her annual trip to visit her dad, Zeus. This time she's bringing a few of her super-friends along. When the girls arrive at Olympus, it's not long before the family reunion devolves into a family competition. The gods offer Wonder Woman the ability to become "full goddess" to increase her powers, but at the cost of renouncing her life at Super Hero High. Will Wonder Woman refuse...
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 6
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Catwoman is out alone on the prowl one night when KABOOM--an explosion at S.T.A.R. Labs rouses the other girls from their slumber. Star students Batgirl and Lois Lane both know the lab incident is fishy, and they meet later to share clues. But nothing could've prepared Batgirl for what they see next--Batgirl's dad on a date.
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Garfield show volume 1
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Collects five Garfield stories, including "Unfair Weather, " in which Garfield and Odie must find out the cause of the strange weather.
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"What happens when The Flash meets his match with the amazing Speed Buggy? Or the Super Sons--Damian Wayne a.k.a. Robin and Jonathan Kent a.k.a. Superboy--clash with Dynomutt. How about Black Lightning meeting his match with Hong Kong Phooey? And what happens when Aquaman meets another master of the sea--Jabberjaw! Find out in this unbelievable collection of crazy crossovers starring super heroes and cartoons alike!"--Provided by publisher.
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DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 5
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Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Katana, Bumblebee, Supergirl, and Batgirl rush to finish their comic about themselves for June Moone's art class, but when Harley Quinn spills Ms. Moone's magic paint on their pages, their art comes to life-and these super dopplegängers are super-villains! As the dastardly doodles cause chaos in Metropolis, Ms. Moone discovers this havoc is a result of her pilfered potions and her out-of-control anger transforms her into...