Lark Pien
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From early morning until sunset, beloved Mr. Elephanter takes care of the rambunctious youngsters of the Elephantery, preparing their breakfast, taking them to the park, tucking them in for naps, and joining them at play.
5) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness.
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, "Sunny Side Up" is at once a compelling "problem" story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world. " --
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A USA TODAY and Indie Bestseller!
For fans of New Kid 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.
Can five overlooked kids make one big difference?
There's George: the brain
Sara: the loner
Dayara: the tough kid
Nico:
...Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 3
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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 the least groovy girl in the grade?Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things,...
9) Boxers
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In China in 1898 bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough: harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils."
10) Saints
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She finally finds friendship-- and a name, Vibiana -- in the most unlikely of places: Christianity. But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is in full swing, and bands of young men roam the countryside, murdering Westerners and Chinese Christians alike. Torn between her nation and her Christian...
11) Dragon hoops
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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....
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Diana, the gangly, sometimes clumsy, only child on the island of Themyscira, struggles to live up to the high Amazonian standards and longs for someone her own age whom she can talk to.
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 5
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This book alternates interrelated stories about three characters: a Chinese American trying to fit into popular culture, a Chinese folk hero attempting to be worshipped as a god; and a teenager ashamed by his Chinese cousin's behavior.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Beyond takes place in some sort of afterlife. You don't know much when you begin, save that you're dead and that you've ended up in a room that includes a door, a window, and a table with some books. You need to get out, so you try the door. And then the window. And then you finally turn to the books--and when you open them, you're pulled into the worlds of those pages. Could these fictional worlds hold the key to your escape? Or is there more...
Series
Comics Squad volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An anthology of comics by well-known graphic novelists on the theme of detention.