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1) The flamingo
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
141 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a highly acclaimed illustrator comes a stunning graphic novel filled with adventure and wonder about an imaginative girl and her obsession with flamingoes. A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living room, her vacation turns into something fantastical.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
134 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister! Karen is having a terrible day. Her favorite jeans are missing, there's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box, and Boo-Boo the cat won't play with her. She even gets punished and sent to her room! Karen tries everything to make her day better, but nothing is going right and her bad luck just won't go away. Will this be the worst day ever?"--Provided...
3) Pawcasso
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
A delightful graphic novel about friendship and belonging, starring the world's most adorable dog, perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Guts.
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jen moves out to the country and has to put up with her mom and her mom's new boyfriend, as well as his kids. Suddenly part of a larger family in a new place, Jen isn't sure there is a place for her in this different world."--
Author
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
153 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pen the Penguin lives with his most favorite keeper in the world: Hayakawa the Human. But Pen's no ordinary penguin... He's a neat penguin! A proper penguin! A doting penguin! Pen loves to daydream of Hayakawa's smile as he flips pancakes and folds the laundry with his teeny-tiny flippers. If only his beloved Hayakawa would notice! It's too bad Pen's human keeper is a hopelessly lazy university student, but with a little nap and some helpful friends,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
201 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir."--
8) Keeping two
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane. A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
203 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Who Will Make the Pancakes collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years — roughly contemporaneously with the author’s own journey as a mother— wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love,...
10) Shadow life
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko's well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it's not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club) volume 12
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
134 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy. Jessi's the busiest of all -- she's preparing for her dance...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment--to get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his head!... Twilight must infiltrate the prestigious Eden Academy to get close to his target Donovan Desmond, but has he ruined his daughter Anya's chances with his outburst during the admissions interview? Perhaps the truly...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
155 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"HUDDLING. Pen the Penguin tries his best for Hayakawa the Human, but everything he does backfires... He gets trapped overnight at a haunted inn, gets stuck in a time loop with a baby chick, and gets mixed up with the other penguins at the aquarium! Somebody give this bird a break! FINAL VOLUME!
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club) volume 11
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
165 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stacey McGill is moving back to New York, and her friends must face the sadness of saying good-bye, hunt down the perfect farewell gift, and take on the difficult task of filling Stacey's place in the Baby-sitters Club.
15) Enlighten me
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
140 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Binh and his family take a trip to a silent meditation retreat, where he learns a lot about himself and how to manage his feelings through Buddhist teachings.
When Bình fights back against a bully who makes fun of his Vietnamese heritage, he expects to be cheered as the hero. He defeated the bad guy, right? Instead, it gets him a stern warning from his vice principal and worried parents. Now he's stuck on a family trip to a silent meditation retreat....
16) Paul at home
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"An affecting exploration of the ways our roles as parents and children change over a lifetime. Paul at Home is Quebecois superstar Michel Rabagliati's most personal book yet, a riveting, emotional, and frequently amusing take on the losses and loneliness of being closer to retirement than to university. Paul is in his mid-50s, a successful cartoonist with an achy shoulder living in a house he once shared with his wife and daughter. The backyard is...
17) Stone fruit
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Fantagraphics Books edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties -- Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother...
18) Dear brother
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sister, who constantly feels overlooked, especially when the family gets a pet of Brother's choice, decides to send him letters expressing how she feels, and to her surprise, he thoughtfully responds.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment--get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his head! Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn't know is that the wife...
20) Past mistakes
Author
Series
Public domain volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Syd Dallas is responsible for pop culture's greatest hero: THE DOMAIN! But his sons Miles and David have a complicated relationship with both the creation and their creator. Can they convince their dad to fight for their family's legacy? Collects PUBLIC DOMAIN #1-5."--Publisher marketing.
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