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2) Fantasmas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Having moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis, Cat is disappointed to learn that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, while Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (66 pages : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
He played Spike on the show, and now James Marsters writes a poignant but action-packed story of the vampire who chose to have a soul and now has to deal with his past while being compelled to play the hero. * Get into Spike's head as only James Marsters can! * Spike: Into the Light is an original graphic novel set in Buffy Season Seven!. --Provided by publisher.
5) Ghosts
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (556 pages : chiefly colour illustrations)
Language
English
Description
In the dark and gritty town of Los Angeles, one man stands between humans and... everything else. Cal McDonald, private detective with scotch for blood, investigates the cases that no one else will. Mummies-shedemons, frankenstein creations, and possessed cars. Collects Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #1 #5, A Letter from B.S. from the Dark Horse comic Drawing on Your Nightmares, Love Me Tenderloin, Last Train to Deadsville #1 #4, Criminal...
7) Black Dahlia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On January 15, 1947, a woman was walking with her daughter in a Los Angeles neighborhood. She passed what looked to be a discarded manikin. It turned out to be the body of Elizabeth Short: posed, drained of blood, meticulously scrubbed, and cut in two. From this point, Geary reconstitutes and reveals for us the life of this 22-year-old woman who had become known as "Black Dahlia" because of her striking appearance. How could her life have ended in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (385 pages : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
In 2003 Steve Niles, creator of the 30 Days of Night comics series, launched a series of occult detective stories featuring the monstrously hard-boiled Cal McDonald. A pill-popping alcoholic reprobate, Cal is the only line of defense between Los Angeles and a growing horde of zombies, vampires, possessed muscle cars, mad scientists, werewolves, and much more weirdness!. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (365 pages : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Cal McDonald, the pillpopping, alcoholic antihero of the hit Criminal Macabre series, is back! Teamed with his undead partner Mo'Lock, Cal protects the sininfested streets of Los Angeles against a growing horde of zombies, vampires, and occultists! This trade collects Criminal Macabre Volumes 46, the oneshot story Feat of Clay, The Creepy Tree and The Trouble with Brains from MySpace Dark Horse Presents, and Hairball from Dark Horse Presents #102...
10) A fire story
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures and were destroyed. Author Brian Fiess firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest, unflinching depiction of his personal experiences, including losing his house and every possession he and his wife had that didnt fit into the back of their car. In the days that followed, as the fires...
11) The Donner Party
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In graphic novel format, tells the story of the Donner Party's struggle to reach California despite harsh weather and starvation"--Provided by publisher.
12) American vampire
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A new vampire for a new century. Cunning, ruthless, and rattlesnake mean, Skinner Sweet has a reputation for cussedness as long as he is ornery. As the first vampire conceived on American soil, however, he's not your usual creature of the night. Stronger, fiercer and powered by the sun, Sweet is the first of a new breed of bloodsucker: the American Vampire. Forty-five years after rising from his grave, Sweet finds himself in 1920s Los Angeles, where...
13) All together now
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
178 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her band's drummer and fellow guitarist start dating, life gets awkward for eighth-grader Bina, a talented musician and songwriter, whose discomfort only multiplies when her best friend Austin develops a crush on her.
14) Re-gifters
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
148, [27] p. : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jen Dik Seong--or 'Dixie' as she's known to her friends. She's living on the ragged edge of LA's Koreatown, and her only outlet is the ancient martial art of hapkido. In fact, she's on the verge of winning a championship--until she falls for fellow hapkido fan/California surfer boy Adam and gets thrown spectacularly off her game. As she struggles to win the tournament--not to mention Adam's affections--Dixie learns that in love and in gift-giving,...
15) Koko be good
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
299 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Koko's always got a new project cooking, even though they usually end in total disaster. This time will be different, Koko promises herself. This time, she's decided to Be Good. But how can a girl whose greatest talent is causing trouble get her act cleaned up? If she's being honest with herself, Koko isn't even sure what 'being good' means. Jon knows what being good means, and that's why he's going to Peru to support his girlfriend's humanitarian...
16) Dragon hoops
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Gene understands stories - comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him "Stick" and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making....
17) Freeway
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
414 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alex Kalienka is in an awful jam. Literally, a traffic jam--but figuratively, his whole life is a mess. A dream job turned nightmare at the biggest animation studio in the world. A love affair that is not what he imagined. And possibly someone with a life-threatening grudge against him. In his first new graphic novel since 2001's acclaimed Mail Order Bride, Mark Kalesniko compresses an entire life into a single day as the frustrated animator, stewing...
Author
Series
Earthseed books volume 1
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
266 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the #1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America's future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger...
19) Lost at sea
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
153 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While traveling home to Canada from California with three teens she hardly knows, eighteen-year-old Raleigh tries to understand her feelings about herself, her life, and her reason for going to California in the first place.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
418 p. : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A second collection of "Locas" comics by Jaime Hernandez, following the lives of Maggie, Hopey, and Ray, beginning shortly after Maggie and Hopey's reunion, and continuing through Ray's relationship with Vivian.
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