Jillian Tamaki
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
317 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summer getaway, her refuge. Her friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had, completing her summer family. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and Rose and Windy have gotten tangled up in a tragedy-in-the-making in the small town of Awago Beach. It's a summer of secrets and heartache, and it's a good...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep-school for mutants and witches but their paranormal abilities take a back seat to everyday teen concerns. Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her nonexistent modeling career; in another, the immortal Everlasting Boy tries to escape this mortal coil to no avail. Throughout...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 720L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaginated) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two girls quickly become best friends, even before they learn one another's names." --from cataloger.
7) Boundless
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages, 40 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of short comics about various women.
9) Half World
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. She is unpopular at school. At home, where she and her loving but neglectful mother live in poverty, she has had to learn to take care of herself. Melanie is just barely coping. Everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by a nightmare creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie has embarked on an epic and darkly fantastical journey to Half World to...
10) Skim
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
141 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Skim" (Kimberly Keiko Cameron) is a not-slim would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique stars a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression.