Graphic Novels
- Colin Kaepernick Change the Game
- School Trip
- Martina and the Bridge of Time
- They Called US Enemy
- New Kid
- Speak
- Wires and Nerves: The Lunar Chronicles series
- March
- March Book 1
- March Book 2
- March Book 3
- Missle Mouse: Rescue on Tankium 3
- Witch and Wizards: Battle for Shadowland
- Amelia Rules
- Amelia Rules: True Things (Adults Don't Want Kids to Know)
- Amelia Rules: The Teenage Guide to NOT Being UNpopular
- Amelia Rules: The Whole World's Crazy
- Amelia Rules: When the Past Is a Present
- Amelia Rules: Super Hero Series
- Zebrafish
- Fist Stick Knife Gun: Personal History of Violence
- Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
- Amulet series
- Amulet Book 1: The Stonekeeper's Amulet
- Amulet: Book 2: The Stonekeeper's Curse
- Amulet Book 3: The Cloud Searchers
- Amulet Book 4: The Last Council
- Amulet Book 5: Prince of the Elves
- Amulet Book 6: Escape from Lucien
- Amulet Book 7: Firelight
- Amulet Book 8: Supernova
- Amulet Book 9: Waverider
- Copper
- Olympians Zeus: King of the Gods
- The Unsinkable Walker Bean
- The Bartimaeus Trilogy book 1 The Amulet of Samarkand
- Artemis Fowl
- Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel
- Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
- Pendragon: Book one: The Merchant of Death
- Coraline
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Prince of Persia
- The Hedge Knight
- Marvel 1602
- Happy Happy Clover
- Babymouse Queen of the World
- Yu-Gi-Oh:GX Volume 1: A New Hero
- Bone: Out from Boneville
- The Tale of Despereaux
- Arf and the Metal Detector
- Scooby-Doo: Howling on the Playground
- Tintin
- Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
- Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
An annotated list of selected graphic novels with cover pictures and descriptions for middle school students to read.
Story of Colin's young life as a Black adolescent.
The focus is on his high school life, being scouted and recruited for baseball by colleges and Major League Baseball (MLB) and how he makes his own way, and never compromise.
Everyone believes his future ahead of him as a highly touted prospect. Everyone, believes his future in in baseball, but not Colin. He is influenced by MLB player Adam Jones who says: "Baseball is a white man's sport." And Allen Iverson.
For him college football looks a lot more fun than traveling with a minor league team. But no one is offering him to play football.
I was disappointed in the tone or voice that describes the backstory of his Black experience, which is told much better by Jerry Craft in School Trip and New Kid.
Middle school trip ...
Jordan Banks and eight of his school mates are on a school trip to Paris, France. A prank by another group of students mixes-up the the teacher sponsors. So the teachers and students are challenged to make their own arrangements on the fly.
Among the humorous adventures the cultural differences that have caused friction in school is heightened as the teachers and students are brought closer together on their school trip. More
Martina wonders about the history of Panama before Columbus. Not getting an answer from anyone, she builds a time machine and travels through time and different geological eras to discover its and her origin story. Source with audio and page viewer.
Georg Takei was four years old when President F D. Roosevelt ordered every person of Japanese descent to one of ten relocation centers. This is George's story of four years growing up a prisoner behind barbed wire fences thousands of miles from his birth town and how this experience would shape his future as an actor, author, and activist.
See also his Ted Talk: Why I love a Country that Once Betrayed Me (15:46)
Jordan Banks is the new kid whose parents convince him to attend an academically prestigious private school, instead of an art academy, that Jordan wants to attend.
The plot is about Jordan’s year in seventh grade as a Black male in a predominantly White school. The subplots are often driven by cultural and experiential differences that lead to conflict through miscommunication with Jordan and several of his classmates as they grow into new kids!
Additionally, to a well written, and illustrated story, Jordan’s journal pages, created by his character as short graphic novellas, are scattered throughout the book as two page black and white comic paneled sketches. More
Melinda (freshman in high school) is friendless and an outcast because of summer events. Now no one will talk to her, let alone listen. Through a trauma filled year she eventually is able to move forward and face her reality of the present to save herself by speaking out.
Text copyright 1999. Pictures copyright 2018
An evil Lunar Queen Levana gains control of lunar inhabitants, attempts to marry a handsome emperor, and works to enslave the inhabitants of the Earth. Nine heroes battle to depose her and enthrone the long lost Princess, restore peace on the Moon and between the Earth and Moon inhabitants.
Characters
- Cinder, cyborg, mechanic, long lost Moon Princess, Queen Selene Backburn of Luma
- Emperor, Kai
- Thief, Captain Carswell Throne
- Scarlet Benoit, farm girl,
- Wolf, biogenetically engineered soldier
- Cress, hacker, Crescent Moon Darnel
- Sir Jacin Clay, member of the Royal Guard,
- Winter Hayle-Blackburn, scarred Princess, Ambassader to Earth, step daughter of Queen Levana, sister to Cinder
- Iko, android
Supporting characters and items
- Rampion - spacecraft
- Alpha Lysander Steele, special operative 212
- The pack, savage beasts, feral animals, trained mutts. (Want to convince Queen Selene they are men & not beasts, monsters, savages & demand she reverse their mutations.
- Sir Garrison Clay, Old Royal Guard member but supports Cinder now, Jacin's dad,
- Sir Kinney - Tressa's brother
March books
The story of desegregation, voting rights, and discrimination from the 1960's until Barak Obama as told by John Robert Lewis.
The story of desegregation, voting rights, and discrimination from the 1960's until Barak Obama as told by John Robert Lewis.
The story of desegregation, voting rights, and discrimination from the 1960's until Barak Obama as told by John Robert Lewis.
Issues 1- 4.
Amelia Rules
Amelia (fourth grade) is an only child who lives with her recently divorced mother. She has one melodramatic adventure after another. Each packed with freewheeling energetic antics. Her good and bad traits are illustrated in full colored graphic art. Jealousy, meanness, sadness, confusion, generosity, and love splatter the pages.
Amelia (fourth grade) is an only child who lives with her recently divorced mother. She has one melodramatic adventure after another. Each packed with freewheeling energetic antics. Her good and bad traits are illustrated in full colored graphic art. Jealousy, meanness, sadness, confusion, generosity, and love splatter the pages. TEN stories included in this book are: The Whole World is Crazy - What Makes You Happy - Superheroes - When the Past Is a Present - The Gym Class System - Loosely in Disguise, and Frightened - Amelia McBride and the Other Side of Yuletide - Speak Softee to Me - True Things (Adults Don't Want Kids to Know) The Teenage Guide to NOT Being Unpopular.
Amelia (fourth grade) is an only child who lives with her recently divorced mother. She has one melodramatic adventure after another. Each packed with freewheeling energetic antics. Her good and bad traits are illustrated in full colored graphic art. Jealousy, meanness, sadness, confusion, generosity, and love splatter the pages.
Five stories included in this book are:
- The Whole world is crazy
- The Gym Class System
- Loosely in Disguise, and Frightened
- Amelia McBride and the Other Side of Yuletide
- Speak Softee to Me
age 9 years fourth grade topics growing up friends divorce
Amelia (fourth grade) is an only child who lives with her recently divorced mother. She has one melodramatic adventure after another. Each packed with freewheeling energetic antics. Her good and bad traits are illustrated in full colored graphic art. Jealousy, meanness, sadness, confusion, generosity, and love splatter the pages.
Amelia (fourth grade) is an only child who lives with her recently divorced mother. She has one melodramatic adventure after another. Each packed with freewheeling energetic antics. Her good and bad traits are illustrated in full colored graphic art. Jealousy, meanness, sadness, confusion, generosity, and love splatter the pages.
One man's journey to reduce violence in black American communities.
Amulet series
Characters: man-eating demons, a mechanical rabbit, a giant robot, and two ordinary children.
Plot After the death of their father, Emily and Navin move in with their mother who lives in the home of her deceased great-grandfather. After which a creature lures mom through a basement door. Befuddled, Em and Navin, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals. Together with a small mechanical rabbit, Miskit they face the most terrifying monster before saving their mom..
With mom in a coma, from the arachnopod's poison, Em and Navin must travel to Kanalis. However, when they and the Miskit robotic crew in the walking house reach the city, their trouble begins.
Emily, Navin, and the resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis and the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers. A mission of survival for Alledia and escape from the Elf King.
While hoping for help in Cielis, something seems wrong, streets are deserted, and the people who are still there are fearful. Emily is escorted to the Academy, where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Stonekeepers Guardian Council. As the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, an awful secret is uncovered—a secret that, if left buried, means the certain destruction of everything they are fightings for.
Emily survives the Stonekeepers Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has the Mother Stone and the Elf King is forging new Amulets to give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor. Emily and her crew lead the Cielis Guard in an attempt to stop him. With Max stands in their way and the Voice of her Amulet, working against her …
Navin and his crew travel to Lucien in a search for a beacon essential to their fight against the Elf King. When they arrive they find a city ravaged by war and plagued by mysterious creatures. Meanwhile, Emily goes back into the Void with Max, an Elf King loyal followers. There she discovers his darkest secrets.
Emily, Trellis, and Vigo visit Algos Island, where they hope to access lost memories of Trellis's mysterious childhood to discover knowledge to use against the Elf King. Meanwhile, the Voice of Emily's Amulet is getting stronger, and threatens to overtake her completely.
Emily has lost control of her Amulet and is imprisoned in the Void. To escape she must overcome the influence of the Voice. Meanwhile, Navin, travels to Lighthouse One, a space station where the Resistance is preparing to battle the approaching Shadow forces that would drain planet Alledia of all its resources. Will they ever ensure Alledia's survival?
After her confrontation with Ikol, Emily finally understands the stone's power and what she must do to defend Alledia from the shadows. As she travels to Typhon to help her mom and Navin, Prince Trellis returns to the Kingdom of the Elves to save his countrymen and confront the fraud who has seized power in the absence of a king. The threat of darkness follows all Stonekeepers closely, and it will take the strength of all to conquer it and survive.
Adventuring to Atlantis. Incredible illustrations.
Nathaniel is apprenticed to learn magic and encounters Simon Lovelace who humiliates Nathan in public. Nathan determined to learn more spells and magic on his own summons a djinni Bartimaeus. Let the trilogy begin. Adventure, excitement, suspense, magic, spells, power, and of course good versus evil.
Artemis Fowl: Graphic Novels
This creatively designed graphic novel tells the complete first story of Artemis Fowl in a way that was not possible in the mere novel. The authors, Colfer and Donkin, collaborated with the illustrators, Rigano and Lamanna to combine text and illustrations in a format that includes detailed character information in illustrations, text, and in character files physically embedded in the graphic novel. The combination of these three elements create a style and tone for the story that may provide more detail and a richer experience than the original novel.
This creatively designed graphic novel tells the complete Artemis Fowl story of The Arctic Incident in a way that was not possible in the mere novel. The author, Colfer collaborated with the illustrators, Rigano, and the fact file page creator Alexander Garkusha to combine text and illustrations in a format that includes detailed character information in illustrations, text, and in character files physically embedded in the graphic novel. The combination of these three elements create a style and tone for the story that may provide more detail and a richer experience than the original novel. It is a great feat, but not the first as Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel preceded it. Still a great experience.
Coraline finds a door with a brick wall or door way into a parallel disturbing world of people with black button eyes. Let the games begin. Scary movies, supernatural adventure, witch craft, romps through a dungeon, missing parents, mystery and suspense; masterfully written this story will enthrall all readers.
Incredible vivid illustrations of knights and fantasy story.
Between a graphic novel and comic book. Historical birth of super heroes on Earth.
Graphic novel about Babymouse who wants so bad to go to a slumber party with the popular girls she wants so much to be friends with. She blows off her best friend in her desires to acquire an invitation. However, in the end even a mouse can understand her true personality and accept what she really is.
Cartoon that may be too advanced for me. I don't know why, but I did read the uncolored version from beginning to end and would like to know WHAT? This one is colored and it really adds much greater style and tone for ... ? The entire series that was first published as a newspaper cartoon is now available as a graphic novel.
Well written very engaging fantasy adventure to read aloud in primary grades. The author plays with the reader by using the word "reader". Makes comments about the meaning of some word (perfidy). And uses a generally delightful tone - With a rope made of mice whiskers, He went up to see the light and ended in the Queen's soup... As he was running away he looked back and saw... the Princess's look that broke his heart...
Could do a plot study for Scooby-Doo - the gang decides to do something, someone doesn't want it done, try to foil it with a haunting, challenge to figure out what is going on (who is haunting)?, In the investigation process a mayhem action sequence erupts, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy crash into each other (climax), resolution with haunting unmasked, rectify, ride off into the sunset.
The series includes 7 volumes with three adventures in each volume:
Volume 1: Tintin in America, Cigars of the Pharaoh, & The Blue Lotus.
The language and actions of the characters in the different cultural settings seem to cross a line from comedy into biased and even racist language and situations. Unfortunately dating it for young readers.
Image from a Tintin cover sells as one of the most expensive comic book art in the world for about $3.84 million USD.
Black Panther
Super hero book
The collection:
- Black Panther Book 1, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet
- Black Panther Book 2, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet
- Black Panther Book 3, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet
- Black Panther Book 4, Avengers of the New World part 1
- Black Panther Book 5, Avengers of the New World part 2
- Black Panther Book 6, The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda part 1
- Black Panther Book 7, The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda part 2
- Black Panther Book 8, The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda part 3
Source for these and many more ...
Super hero book
Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel.
“The first masterpiece in comic book history” The New Yorker
Maus is an evocative story within a story. The story of the author’s tormented relationship with his father as his father tells the story of his Jewish family in Poland during the Holocaust. A story of persecution, trauma, loss, survival and legacy.
The contrast of illustrations in white and black, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice, and Nazis as menacing cats suggest the barbaric inhuman treatment of the Holocaust.
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman 1991.
To check out ...
- Able, Jessica, Gabriel Soria & Warren Pleece - Life Sucks
- Ashihara, Hinako - Sand Chronicles
- Clevinger, Brian and Steve Wegener - Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientist of Tesladyne
- Inoue, Takehiko - Real
- Ito, Junki - Uzumaki
- Landowne, Youme and Anthony Horton - Pitch Black
- Steinberger, AimeeMajor - Japan Ai: - A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan
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