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Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent than Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine tales. In 1934, they created the superhero, but it was four years before they convinced a publisher to take a chance on their Man of Steel in a new format--the comic book.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The creator of the wildly successful Peanuts comic strip, Charles Schulz is an amazing author. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into the athlete's life. Zoom in even deeper with quick stats, a timeline, and bolded glossary terms. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Creative icon, visionary, and dreamer, Stan Lee co-created many of pop culture's most significant characters, including Spider-Man, Black Panther, and the Avengers. This young adult edition of Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel is the definitive YA biography of the Marvel legend, celebrating the centennial of his birth"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee—comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes—shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be.
Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he was the leading creative force behind Marvel Comics,...
Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he was the leading creative force behind Marvel Comics,...
7) Guts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...
8) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
339 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental health...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The definitive biography of the beloved--often controversial--co-creator of many legendary superheroes. ...Presents the origin of "Stan the Man," who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee was the most famous American comic book creator who ever lived. Thanks, especially, to his many cameos in Marvel movies and TV shows, Lee was--and even after his 2018 death, still is--the...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
518 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This follow-up to Hyperbole and a Half "includes humorous stories from [cartoonist] Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; [and] reflections on the absurdity of modern life"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of comic book writer, editor, and producer Stan Lee, covering his upbringing, creation of characters such as Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, work with Marvel, and more.
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