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1) Another kind
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English
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"Six kids search for a new place to call home in this middle grade graphic novel debut by comic creators Cait May and Trevor Bream, for fans of Marvel's Runaways and The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag. Another Kind is not your average monster story. Tucked away in a government facility nicknamed the Playroom, six not-quite-human kids learn to control their strange and unpredictable abilities. Life is good -- or safe, at least -- hidden from the...
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Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Forget what you know. This book changes everything. Take a deep breath, it's... The Bad Guys Episode 18.
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Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"WEIRD?! Nothing weird EVER happens in The Bad Guys. Like, you would NEVER see a chain-saw monster confronting a velociraptor who has eaten an elderly piranha, or the disturbing antics of a deranged dentist running amok with an oversized drill. NOPE. None of that nonsense here. So relax and be entirely unsurprised by the Bad Guys' next adventure!"--
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Cryptid kids (Sara Goetter) volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Before she moves away to a new city, Penny wants to prove that she was truly saved from drowning by the Bawk-ness Monster but instead must rescue kidnapped cryptids from an evil collector along with Luc and K"--
6) Nimona
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Series
Nimona volume 1
Language
English
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Nimona, a young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy, and Lord Ballister Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, set out to prove that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his friends are not the heroes everyone thinks they are, but Lord Blackheart soon realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past, and her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.
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Cat's cradle volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of one day taming monsters, orphan street urchin Suri finds her self-confidence, cleverness, and ambition serving her well when a mysterious new wagon holding something monstrous joins her merchant camp.
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Something is killing the children volume 3
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Language
English
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"When the children of Archer's Peak--a sleepy town in the heart of America--begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories--impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see. Her...
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Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"Friendship to the max! At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's camp for hardcore lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed foxes. Secret caves. Anagrams. Luckily, Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five rad, butt-kicking best pals determined to have an awesome summer together-- and they're not gonna let a magical quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way!" --
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Cardboard kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's nearly Halloween in The Cardboard Kingdom, and one thing is for sure: a mystery is afoot. Nate is positive he saw a monster in his backyard. It wasn't a shadow or a rustling tree. It wasn't his eyes playing a trick on him. It was a monster, plain and simple. But the trouble is, no one believes him. Even his stepbrother, Elijah, says he must have imagined it... Until it shows up over and over again in the kingdom. Always at night, always on the...
13) Monster friends
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Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
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Despite their differences, monster neighbors Reggie and Emily make the perfect pair of explorers, and with a map to make, a beach party to plan, and a sea monster to find, Reggie will have to learn to talk about his feelings and let new friends in.
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English
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"An anthology of six original Last Kids short stories, designed to bridge the gap between books 6 and 7, features contributions by prominent graphic artists and finds Jack and his friends spinning yarns about their over-the-top post-apocalyptic adventures."--Provided by publisher.
15) Doodleville
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Series
Doodleville volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Drew is just a regular artist. But there's nothing ordinary about her art. Her doodles are mischievous ... and rarely do they stay in Doodleville, the world she's created in her sketchbook. After an inspiring class trip to the Art Institute of Chicago--where the doodles cause a bit too much trouble--Drew decides it's time to take her artistic talents to the next level. Enter the Leviathan--Levi, for short. He's a monster, but a friendly one. That...
16) Mooncakes
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English
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Medfield Cozy Reads for Teens - Mysterious and Magical
Natick-Morse Pride 2024
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Medfield Cozy Reads for Teens - Mysterious and Magical
Natick-Morse Pride 2024
Description
Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers? bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. As a werewolf, Tam has been wandering from place to place...
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My favorite thing is monsters volume 2
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2016-
Language
English
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Description
"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those...
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Barb the last Berzerker volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Barb and her best friend Porkchop the yeti must save her fellow warriors from the evil sorcerer Witch Head before he destroys the land of Bailiwick.
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Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 4
Publisher
BOOM! Box, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Series
Heroes of Olympus (graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
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