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61) Sidekicks
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If You Like...Captain Underpants
If You Liked Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
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If You Like...Captain Underpants
If You Liked Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
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When Captain Amazing feels he is getting too old to be a reliable superhero, he tries to hire a new sidekick, but his pets have different ideas.
62) Primer
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While living with her latest set of foster parents, Ashley Rayburn mistakenly applies some found body paints which give her a wide range of special powers, but soon the military discovers what happened to their secret weapon and this puts Ashley and her newfound family and friends in danger.
63) In real life
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"Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from...
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"With just five dollars and a knapsack to her name, fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel is sent to live in Gotham City. She's not worried, though--she's battled a lot of hard situations as a kid, and knows her determination and outspokenness will carry her through life in the most dangerous city in the world. And when Gotham's finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in, it seems like Harley has finally found a place to grow into her most "true true" with...
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Bone (Jeff Smith) volume 5
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"Fone and Smiley Bone try to return a rat creature cub to the mountains, where they meet yet anothr adversary: the sly and mighty mountain lion, Rock Jaw."--Cover [p. 4].
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Katie the catsitter volume 1
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Twelve-year-old Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead until she realizes the mysterious neighbor who hired her to catsit is one of the city's greatest supervillains.
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Great Graphic Novels (WPL-ADULT)
OBD Black History Month - Adult
OBD Reading is Groovy - YOUTH
Staff Picks October 2022
OBD Black History Month - Adult
OBD Reading is Groovy - YOUTH
Staff Picks October 2022
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Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, 'Kindred', now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, 'Kindred' continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel...
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CSPL Women's History Month
FPPL 2024 March Women's History Month Picks
Juneteenth Adults 2023
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FPPL 2024 March Women's History Month Picks
Juneteenth Adults 2023
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"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black...
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7th Grade Booklist
Marvel Reads (SCPL-YS)
School Stories (kids)
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
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School Stories (kids)
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
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"Miles Morales is a normal kid who happens to juggle school at Brooklyn Visions Academy while swinging through the streets of Brooklyn as Spider-Man. After a disastrous earthquake strikes his mother's birthplace of Puerto Rico, Miles springs into action to help set up a fundraiser for the devastated island. But when a new student's father goes missing, Miles begins to make connections between the disappearance and a giant corporation sponsoring Miles'...
71) Pie in the Sky
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2022 Bluestem Award Nominees
2023-2024 Crete Public Library's 3rd-4th Battle List
AANHPI 2022 - Kids
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2023-2024 Crete Public Library's 3rd-4th Battle List
AANHPI 2022 - Kids
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"Sometimes life isn't a piece of cake ... When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly...
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A prequel to the "Grisha Trilogy" takes the reader into Ravka's mysterious past, when Grisha lived as fugitives and the Darkling took his first steps on the path to power.
Before he led Ravka's Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an extraordinary power. Eryk and his mother, Lena, have spent their lives on the run. But they will never find a safe haven. They are not...
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Naruto (Manga) volume 11
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Now preparing for the finals of the Chûnin Selection Exams, Naruto studies with naughty new mentor Jiraiya and struggles to harness the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox chakra locked within him. Meanwhile, other ninja villages are forming secret alliances against Konohagakure... Rated: T
NARUTO © 1999 by Masashi Kishimoto/SHUEISHA Inc.
74) Freestyle
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2023 Summer Book Picks with Miss Rachel
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
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Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
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"While preparing for the last major dance competition before they graduate from eighth grade and go to separate high schools in NYC, Cory must balance the expectations of his parents, school, crew and his new friend as pressure mounts from all sides"--
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Bone (Jeff Smith) volume 8
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In a strange roof-top kitchen, high above the crowded streets of ancient Atheia, the Bone cousins try to save the city from the clutches of a tyrant. They learn that whoever controls Atheia's fabled treasures will win the loyalty of the soldiers, but time is running out ---- The Hooded One is drawing near, leading a legion of Rat Creatures bent on the destruction of the city and everyone in it!
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City of dragons (Jaimal Yogis) volume 1
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When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real - especially when the egg hatches overnight. The dragon has immense powers that Grace doesn't understand. And that puts them both...
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CatStronauts volume 1
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Cats
Graphic Novel Recommendations (SCPL-YS)
If You Liked Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
Graphic Novel Recommendations (SCPL-YS)
If You Liked Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
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Alerted to a global energy crisis, the President consults with the World's Best Scientist, who suggests sending a special group of astronauts to turn the Moon into a solar power plant.
78) Huda F are you?
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Huda F books volume 1
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Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not...
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Narwhal and Jelly volume 4
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"Narwhal and Jelly... and Otty?! Exuberant Narwhal and skeptical Jelly test the waters of adding a new friend to their pod when they meet Otty the super-adventurous otter in the fourth book of this blockbuster early graphic novel series! Dive into three new stories about the joy of adventure and the power of friendship! In the first story, Otty the otter makes her debut splash; while Narwhal greets her with immediate enthusiasm, Jelly's not so sure...
80) Ink girls
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2023 Youth Services Favorites (SCPL-YS)
GPLD 2023 Winter Favorites: Chapter Books/Graphic Novels
Graphic Novel Recommendations (SCPL-YS)
Nov/ Dec Buzzworthy Books Kids
GPLD 2023 Winter Favorites: Chapter Books/Graphic Novels
Graphic Novel Recommendations (SCPL-YS)
Nov/ Dec Buzzworthy Books Kids
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"In a vibrant city that thrives on trade and invention, two girls from very different walks of life join forces to fight censorship and protect the people they love"--
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