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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author tells the story of his life in graphic-novel format. Thirteen-year-old Jimmy has everything going for him until a series of events causes him to lose everything. However, through it all he pursues his dream to create comic books. Finally, a friend gives him an idea that changes his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
vii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Ghetto Klown, celebrated performer Leguizamo lays bare his early years in blue collar Queens. He brings us onto the sets of his films opposite stars such as Al Pacino and Patrick Swayze and with directors such as Baz Lurhrmann and Brian De Palma, while also opening up about his offstage life in love and marriage.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she'd ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience...
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. In this conclusion to the March trilogy, he details the surpassing courage, sacrifice, and revolutionary non-violence that transformed American society in the 1960s.
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
109 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Adulthood is a myth confronts head-on the horrors, anxiety, and awkwardness of modern adult life. From the agony of holding hands with a gorgeous guy to the yawning pit of hell that is the wifi gone down to the eye-watering pain of eating too-hot pizza because one cannot stand to wait for it to cool down, Sarah fearlessly documents it all. Like the work of fellow Millennial authors Allie Brosh, Grace Helbig, and Gemma Correll, Sarah's total frankness...
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis has been a resounding moral voice in the quest for equality for more than 50 years. In March, he shares his memories of the Civil Rights Movement, reliving the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from a past of clenched fists into a future of outstretched hands.