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The #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the third graphic novel adaptation!Glory knows that the dragon world is wrong about her being "a lazy RainWing." Maybe sh

From the award-winning duo of Jennifer and Matthew Holm comes the third book in the bestselling Sunny series, Sunny Rolls the Dice -- full of heart, laughs, and adventure!Too cool for school . . . or

Every day in Mr. Wolf's class is an adventure... even when you have to stay home from school!Mr. Wolf's students are having a "writer's workshop" and are learning about personal narratives. Sampson do

When Red has to go spend the night helping Grandmole, Bird and Squirrel are put in charge of taking care of Squirrel's daughter, Birdie. But Birdie wants to go with her mom because staying home is so

Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys in his family, he isn't a shapeshifter. He's taking classes with his grandmother and helping to keep

Hey, Kiddo (圖文書) 獲2018年美國國家圖書獎青年文學類獎項。是作者Jarrett Krosoczka自身的故事，因為母親吸毒成癮進出勒戒所、父親失蹤甚至連名字他都不知道，還好還有祖父母扶養他長大。在幼兒園，Jarrett Krosoczka 的老師讓他畫出他的家人，有媽媽和爸爸。但他的家庭比這複雜得多。他和祖父母住在一起，兩個非常吵鬧、非常有愛心、非常固執的人。他試圖讓他童年的非正常生活盡可能正常，發現透過繪畫來表達自己，即使他對一切所知不多。直到十幾歲的時候，他才能開始拼湊家庭的種種。作者透過圖像記述了自己的不一樣的成長過程，他找到讓自己克服難題的方法，希望也能對成長中的青少年帶來啟發。In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's g

Emily has lost control of her Amulet and is imprisoned in the Void, where she must find a way to escape the influence of the Voice. Meanwhile, Emily's brother, Navin, travels to Lighthouse One, a spac

Sometimes making a friend is a lot easier than keeping one!Sixth grade was SO much easier for Danny. All her friends were in the same room and she knew exactly what to expect out of life. Now that she

★ 美國圖書館協會「最佳兒童圖像小說」得獎系列★ 《Dog Man》作者 Dav Pilkey 熱情推薦！★ 最適合國小讀者入門的校園圖像小說Mr. Wolf剛開始在Hazelwood小學任教，第一天就要面對一群個性鮮明的學生：新來的Margot、神祕的Sampson、認真的Aziza，以及總是睡不飽的Penny。當Penny突然不見時，全班一起展開尋找行動。本書以溫暖幽默的圖像故事描寫教室日常，是一部貼近孩子生活的校園圖像小說。American Library Association Best Graphic Novel for Children, 2021 and 2022 Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books ListMr. Wolf has just started teaching at Hazelwood Elementary. He wants the first day of school to go well, but he's got his hands full with his new class. Some of his students include: Margot, who is new in town and is trying to make friends. Sampson, who brought something special to school for show-and-tell. Aziza, who just wants everyone to be quiet and do their work. And Penny, who is VERY sleepy because she has a new baby brother at home, goes missing! This delightful new series captures the everyday -- and unexpected -- ups and downs of a fourth-grade classroom.

Claudia and her sister, Janine, may as well be from two different planets. Claudia, who pays more attention to her artwork and The Baby-sitters Club than her homework, feels like she can't compete with her perfect sister. Janine studies nonstop, gets straight As, and even takes college-level courses! But when something unexpected happens to the most beloved person in their family, will the sisters be able to put aside their differences?Raina Telgemeier, using the signature style featured in her acclaimed graphic novelsSmile and Sisters, perfectly captures all the drama and charm of the original novel!

When The Baby-sitters Club gets into a huge fight, Mary Anne is left to her own devices. She has to eat by herself in the school cafeteria, figure out how to make new friends, and deal with her overpr

Bird and Squirrel are almost home. All that's left for them to do is cross the Great Mountains. But before they can, the duo stops to chase off wolves hunting a baby bear and in the process Bird gets

These graphic novels adapted by Raina Telgemeier, #1 New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award winning creator ofSmile, are now available in full color!Poor Stacey. She just moved to a new town, is

For the very first time, The Baby-sitters Club graphic novels adapted by #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling and Eisner Award winning creator of SMILE, Raina Telgemeier, are available in full color!Kristy,

Bird and Squirrel are back and ready for adventure!After Bird and Squirrel crash land in the South Pole during a raging blizzard, a penguin named Sakari thinks Bird has come to rid her village of a hu

Emily and Navin's mother is still in a coma from the arachnopod's poison, and there's only one place to find help: Kanalis, the bustling, beautiful city of waterfalls. But when Em, her brother, and Mi

I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 /9781338666373It's been years since the Nazis invaded Max Rosen's home country of Poland. All the Jewish people, including Max's fam­ily, have been forced to live in a ghetto. At least Max and his sister, Zena, had Papa with them . . . until two months ago, when the Nazis took him away. Now Max and Zena are on their own.One day, with barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a dar­ing escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. They are found by Jewish resistance fighters, who take them to a safe camp.But soon, grenades are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic/9781338120912George Calder must be the luckiest kid alive - he and his little sister, Phoebe, are sailing with their aunt on the Titanic, the greatest ship ever built! George can't resist exploring every inch of the incredible boat, even if it gets him into trouble.But one night while George

Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood!Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and

From the creator of Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club comes Super Diaper Baby -- a superhero who's faster than a speeding stroller and more powerful than diaper rash, now in full color George and Harold are in trouble again As punishment, they have to write a 100-page report on good citizenship, and they have been specifically ordered NOT to make another comic about Captain Underpants. So what do they do? They create an all-new superhero... Super Diaper Baby Super Diaper Baby's archenemy, Deputy Dangerous, wants to steal his powers and take over the planet. Will the diaper-wearing dynamo defeat the deputy, or is the entire planet doomed?Dav Pilkey's first-ever graphic novel is now presented in glorious full color

Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off from The Baby-sitters Club, adapted and illustrated by DK Yingst!Karen thinks there's a ghost in her house! But she has never really seen the ghost of Old Ben Brewer... until now.Karen and her stepsister, Kristy, have found out that Ben Brewer and his spooky friends are going to have a birthday party in their attic on Halloween night! It used to be fun having a ghost around. But now Karen isn't so sure!

Can one spoiled cousin upend three kids' hard-won happiness and even their safety? Find out in this hilarious, hair-raising, high stakes companion to the bestselling Parachute Kids!WITH FAMILY LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?After seven months on their own as undocumented immigrants, the Lin siblings have settled into their new lives in California. Jia-Xi (Jesse) has a new job, Ke-Gang (Jason) has a new crush, and Feng-Li (Ann) is excited to celebrate her eleventh birthday with her new friends. Their parents still await visa approval in Taiwan, so the trio is trying to take better care of one another and stay under the radar of immigration authorities. But when their stuck-up cousin Josephine--a violin prodigy--arrives with her privilege and demands, suddenly their world is in turnaround. Will they have to give up their home, their friends, and the stability they worked so hard to achieve?

Do you have what it takes to be a student at the academy for Roblox pros? Jump back in with the second book in the unofficial Roblox graphic novels, Academy for Roblox Pros!Mitch and his friends are back once again to save the digital world from the mysterious Mr. Warlock! Will they be able to use all of the new skills they learn at Roblox Academy in order to thwart Mr. Warlock's plans or will they be zapped back to reality once and for all? Read and find out in this illustrated unofficial Roblox graphic novel series!A new exciting look into the world of RobloxA must-read for any kid who loves to play Roblox!Perfect for gamers

From Tapas Media, the same webtoon platform that brought you Magical Boy, comes Rainbow!, a new LGBTQ+ YA graphic novel series!Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows closer with Mimi, it may finally be time for Boo to face reality . . . Who is the real Mimi? The one in her dreams? Or the one in real life?Rainbow! is perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Magical Boy, full of heart, adorable illustrations, and a storyline that any teenager can relate to!

The New York Times bestselling SUNNY series continues as Sunny finds herself in the spotlight in a competition unlike any other...Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are... not the best. So what can she do?When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants to start a debate club, she's not really sure what he means. Isn't debate just... arguing? Sunny's never had a problem with arguing. Arun and the advisor show her there's more to it than that -- there's also teamwork, and research, and being able to speak up in front of judges. Some of the debates are fun ones -- which is the best candy? Is peanut butter a force for evil or a force for good? But when the debate club starts to be a success, Sunny realizes she won't just b

Spend hours of fun coloring your favorite characters in the official Dog Man coloring book by Dav Pilkey, the internationally bestselling creator of the Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club series!"I hope you enjoy filling this book up with colors, and may all of your stories be stories about love." -- Dav PilkeyHooray, Dog Man fans! Now you can create art alongside Dav Pilkey in the first-ever official Dog Man coloring book. Hang out with Dog Man, Petey, Li'l Petey, Chief, and other favorite characters as you visit some of the most beloved scenes from Dav's acclaimed graphic novel series. Featuring over 100 panels, this thoughtfully arranged, heartwarming, and riotously funny coloring book story will draw in Dog Man fans of all ages.Dive into the newest graphic novel in the Dog Man series: Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea. For even more adventures, creativity, and humor, join Flippy and Li'l Petey in the Cat Kid Comic Club series. And don't forget the series that started it all:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz (Refugee, Ground Zero) comes an all-new, original Captain America graphic novel!In this thrilling historical adventure set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen -- a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace.How can Cap and Buck fight something that's already dead? And just what does the mysterious Baron Mordo--sitting in his castle atop nearby Wundagore Mountain--have to do with this?Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz merges the worlds of historical fiction and super hero comics in this one-of-a-kind graphic novel that is sure to be met with major enthusiasm from fans of all ages.

A box set of the first three books in the pioneering graphic novel adventure from Dav Pilkey and his amazing cast of characters in the Cat Kid Comic Club. Box set contains: Cat Kid Comic Club, Perspectives (Cat Kid Comic Club #2) and On Purpose (Cat Kid Comic Club #3).

Leon is an ordinary kid who becomes extraordinary when he fights a supervillain to save his school!In the city where Leon lives, superheroes -- and supervillains -- are commonplace. So how does an ordinary kid like Leon, who has no superpowers himself, become the superhero he wants to be? When all his classmates suddenly become obsessed with a new phone app that turns them into zombies, Leon gets his chance to prove that using his brain and following his heart can save the day.Equal parts New Kid and The Incredibles, the first graphic novel in this action-packed, heartfelt, and joyously funny series by Jamar Nicholas reminds readers that when it comes to being a hero, you just need to believe in yourself.

For fans of Twins and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who are forced together by their school to complete community service... and may just have more in common than they thought.How can you be yourself when no one sees the real you?Five students meet in the school cafeteria when they're forced to complete their school community service hours.There's George: the brainSara: the lonerDayara: the tough kidNico: the rich kidThey immediately know that they have nothing in common with each other... even though their school administration has decided that they all belong together.None of the kids wants to be there, and each has their own issues they're dealing with in their life outside of school. But when they encounter someone who truly needs their help, they might just be able to come together to work as a team--and help their community--after all.Christina Diaz Gonzalez, award-winning author of The Red Umbrella, and Gaby Epstein, illustrator of the Ba

Leon is an ordinary kid who becomes extraordinary when he fights a supervillain to save his school!In the city where Leon lives, superheroes -- and supervillains -- are commonplace. So how does an ordinary kid like Leon, who has no superpowers himself, become the superhero he wants to be? When all his classmates suddenly become obsessed with a new phone app that turns them into zombies, Leon gets his chance to prove that using his brain and following his heart can save the day.Equal parts New Kid and The Incredibles, the first graphic novel in this action-packed, heartfelt, and joyously funny series by Jamar Nicholas reminds readers that when it comes to being a hero, you just need to believe in yourself.

The Cat Kid Comic Club is deep in discovery in the newest graphic novel in the hilarious and heartwarming worldwide bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man.The comic club is going in all different directions! Naomi, Melvin, and siblings are each trying to find their purpose. Naomi has an idea to get rich quick that causes a lot of commotion and emotion. And when faced with rejections, the friends try and try again to stay true to their vision. To top it off, a surprise visitor comes to class to stir things up. Will a desire for money and power cloud Naomi's purpose? Is it quitting time? Will the club ever be the same?The hilarity is nonstop as the baby frogs navigate sibling relationships, follow their path, and create art -- with purpose! Featured as stories-within-the-story, the mini comics showcase each baby frog's perspective and individual art style.In this groundbreaking graphic novel series, award-winning author and illustrator Dav Pilkey uses a v

The New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire Graphix series is more collectible than ever in this four-book paperback boxed set!The bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in these graphic novel adaptations, now in a gift-ready boxed set: The Dragonet Prophecy, The Lost Heir, The Hidden Kingdom, and The Dark Secret

In this action-adventure fantasy, young Prince Sing must overcome monstrous obstacles to help his clan return to their homeland.The Wong Clan must leave their ruined homeland for a better life in the

Grumpy Unicorn returns in his first graphic novel! He's out in the world and ready to straight up not have a good time in this hilarious collection of comic stories.Grumpy Unicorn is bored. Really bor

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab,

Trapped in the mists of time by a terrible research experiment gone wrong, John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between the centuries, searching for a way home. In the ocean of the mo

Ben and Jake are back for more! With the Dream Jumper business making them some serious money, all seems to be going great. But Ben is put to the test in a way in he never saw coming when a new and fo

Ben and Jake are back for more! With the Dream Jumper business making them some serious money, all seems to be going great. But Ben is put to the test in a way in he never saw coming when a new and

Trapped in the mists of time by a terrible research experiment gone wrong, John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between the centuries, searching for a way home. In the ocean of the mo

It's been a long, crazy trip around the world. Now the duo is back in their beloved forest, and Bird wants to throw a party! But Squirrel isn't in the mood to celebrate. His house needs a good clea