This document provides summaries for 9 different stories or graphic novels:
1. A coming-of-age story follows three characters as their separate stories intersect when they can no longer solve their own problems alone.
2. An epic chronicles the journey of a family crossing worlds to save their lost patriarch, guided by guardian angels against a force of evil.
3. A graphic novel pits an older generation of superheroes against a new generation in a riveting epic battle.
4. A story follows four outcast girls who form a secret art gang and paint their town.
5. A boy struggles to fit in at a new school as the only Chinese-American student while dealing with
2. An epic, chronicling the journey of
Meg Murry, her unhumanly
intelligent younger brother, Charles,
and their friend Calvin O’Keefe,
crossing distant worlds to save the
Murry’s, lost patriarch. Guided by
three grandmotherly guardian
angels, they navigate the dangers of
a mind-controlled world fallen
under the influence of a cosmic
force of pure evil.
3.
4. KINGDOM COME is a riveting
epic that pits the old guard Superman, Batman, Wonder
Woman and their allies against a new,
uncompromising generation
of heroes.
5.
6. When a transfer student
named Jane is forced to
move from the cool
confines of Metro City to
Suburbia, she thinks her
life is over. But there in the
lunch room at the reject
table she finds her tribe:
three other girls named
Jane. Main Jane
encourages them to form a
secret art gang and paint
the town P.L.A.I.N.
7.
8.
This graphic novel follows three storylines
that come together when they can’t fix
their problems on their own:
Jin Wang starts at a new school where he’s the
only Chinese-American student. Jin just wants
to be an all-American boy, because he’s in
love with an all-American girl.
Danny is an all-American boy: great at
basketball, popular with the girls. But his
obnoxious Chinese cousin Chin-Kee’s annual
visit is such a disaster that it ruins Danny’s
reputation at school, leaving him with no
choice but to transfer somewhere he can start
all over again.
The Monkey King has lived for thousands of
years and mastered the arts of kung fu and
the heavenly disciplines. He’s ready to join the
ranks of the immortal gods in heaven. But
there’s no place in heaven for a monkey.
9.
10. Light Yagami is an ace student with
great prospects - and he's bored out of
his mind. But all that changes when he
finds the Death Note, a notebook
dropped by a rogue Shinigami death
god. Any human whose name is
written in the notebook dies, and now
Light has vowed to use the power of
the Death Note to rid the world of evil.
But when criminals begin dropping
dead, the authorities send the
legendary detective L to track down
the killer. With L hot on his heels, will
Light lose sight of his noble goal...or
his life?
11.
12. Meet Chloe Sacks: Thoughtful,
artistic, and a junior at Georgia
O'Keeffe School for the Arts,
nicknamed "Fashion High" for
its trendy student body. Along
with her best friends, Erika,
Isabel, and MacKenzie, she's
looking forward to a sparkling
year of parties and romance.
And it is an eventful year. But
not quite what she expected.
Who'd have thought that falling
in love would be such a disaster?
13.
14. How did Robin of Loxley
become Robin Hood? Why did
he choose to fight injustice
instead of robbing for his own
gain? Expressive and gritty, this
graphic novel whisks readers
back to Crusades-era England,
where the Sheriff of
Nottingham rules with an iron
fist, and in the haunted heart of
Sherwood Forest, a defiant
rogue — with the help of his
men and the lovely Maid Marian
— disguises himself to become
an outlaw.
15.
16. Marji tells of her life in Iran from
the age of 10, when the Islamic
revolution of 1979 reintroduced a
religious state, through the age
of 14 when the Iran-Iraq war
forced her parents to send her to
Europe for safety. This story, told
in graphic format with simple,
but expressive, black-and-white
illustrations, combines the
normal rebelliousness of an
intelligent adolescent with the
horrors of war and
totalitarianism.
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18. A story of a Jewish survivor of
Hitler's Europe and his son, a
cartoonist who tries to come
to terms with his father's
story and history itself.