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Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact. This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts' New Chapter initiative....
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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.
4) Skim
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Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay, the school goes into mourning overdrive, each clique trying to find something to hold on to and something to believe in. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's high school, and that's what happens to Skim when she starts to meet in secret with her neo-hippie...
5) Ever After
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After a train breaks down, stranding them between safe zones, the young women partner up to stay alive. Vivi is struggling with grief―and guilt―over the loss of her sister. Eva is hiding the start of a horrifying transformation. Together they'll face heat, zombie hordes, and their own inner demons, searching for signs of life in a land of the dead. This graphic novel addition to an enduring genre is thoughtful and emotion-driven, but also full...
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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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Girl called Echo volume 3
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The third graphic novel in the A Girl Called Echo series, Northwest Resistance follows Echo Desjardins and her travels through time. Going back to 1884, Echo finds herself in the thick of a new Métis resistance led by leader Louis Riel, who has returned from exile to resist encroaching forces from the East and to ensure his people's rights are honoured. For Echo, the experience is empowering, focusing her own identity and giving her the strength...
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The heartwarming coming-of-age tale of four high school outcasts who start a band to gain fame and popularity...but have to defend their hometown from a hungry horde of monsters instead.
It's 1989 and Marty Ward-Jackson, Tennessee's number one juvenile delinquent-never wanted to join the Rock Gods. After all, who wants to play with nerds like Jonny, Lenny, and Doug? But after the high schoolers stumble into the gig of a lifetime-opening for local...
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Two hundred years in the future, the survivors of an environmental cataclysm took refuge underground. Their descendants now live in a literal sewer, the bowels of a subterranean city-an abandoned future utopia-that was never completed. These sewerfolk, a collection of scavengers, misfits, bandits, renegades, and mutants, eke out a living in this underground maze of tunnels and canals.
Life is hard enough, but an overzealous mining company, PERCH,...
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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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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,...
15) 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...
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
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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 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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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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