MoComCon 2023 - Children

3) Anne of West Philly: a modern graphic retelling of Anne of Green Gables

"Read the gag-filled adventures of four goofy residents living among the Animal Crossing: New Horizons characters. Includes a bonus Animal Guide with game tips!"--cover.

Author

Weir, Ivy Noelle

Series

Classic Graphic Remix

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Description

In this modern retelling, Anne is fostered into the West Philly home of siblings Marilla and Matthew, and while she initially has a hard time at school, she ends up joining the robotics team and competes for a spot in an elite STEM program.

4) The arrival

Author

Tan, Shaun

Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.

5) Artie and the wolf moon

Author

Stephens, Olivia

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Description

"After sneaking out against her mother's wishes, Artie Irvin spots a massive wolf--then watches it don a bathrobe and transform into her mom. Thrilled to discover she comes from a line of werewolves, Artie asks her mom to share everything--including the story of Artie's late father. Her mom reluctantly agrees. And to help Artie figure out her wolflike abilities, she recruits some old family friends. Artie thrives in her new community and even develops...

6) Beetle & the Hollowbones

Author

Layne, Aliza

Formats:

Book, eBook

Description

Twelve-year-old goblin and witch-in-training Beetle enlists her former best friend, Kat Hollowbones, to help stop Kat's sorceress aunt from demolishing the mall where Beetle's friend Blob Ghost is trapped.

7) Chi's sweet home: Vol. 1

Author

Konami., Kanata

Series

Chi's sweet home volume 2

Description

"Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large park meadow, where she is rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The little kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm and inviting Yamada apartment...where pets are strictly not permitted."--Publisher's website.

8) The deep & dark blue

Author

Smith, Niki

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Description

"After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women who spin the threads of reality to their will. As the twins learn more about the Communion, and themselves, they begin to hatch a plan to avenge their family and retake their royal home. While Hawke wants to return to his old...

9) Dragon Ball Z: [1]

Author

Toriyama, Akira

Series

Dragon Ball Z

Description

Son Goku must use his superhuman strength to fight of the Saiyans, alien warriors who have set their sites on Earth. 'Contains the first three volumes of the series.

10) El deafo

Author

Bell, Cece

Series

El Deafo

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Description

The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower." "Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...

11) Frizzy

Author

Ortega, Claribel A

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Description

"Marlene loves three things: art, her cool tía Ruby and hanging out with her best friend, Camila. But according to her mother, Paola, the only things she needs to focus on are school and growing up. That means straightening her hair every weekend so she can have 'presentable,' 'good' hair. But Marlene hates being in the salon and doesn't understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. With a few hiccups, a dash of embarrassment,...

12) Goldie Vance

Author

Series

Goldie Vance volume 1

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Description

Move over Nancy, Harriet, & Veronica. There's a new sleuth on the block! Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable curiosity, which explains her dream to one day become the hotel's in-house detective. When Charles, the current detective, encounters a case he can't crack, he agrees...

13) Goldie Vance: Volume 2

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Series

Goldie Vance volume 2

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Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance has an insatiable curiosity. She lives at a Florida resort with her dad who manages the place, and it's her dream to one day become the hotel's in-house detective. In this second story arc, Goldie investigates the mysterious appearance of a lady astronaut on the beach!

14) Goldie Vance: Volume three

Author

Series

Goldie Vance volume 3

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Description

Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance has an insatiable curiosity with dreams of one day becoming a detective. Luckily, she lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place, and with a rotating roster of guests and events, there's bound to be some mystery afoot! With the Prescription One race in town, Goldie and her biggest rival, Sugar Maple, find themselves in an unlikely alliance to find who is sabotaging the drivers before the...

15) Goldie Vance: Volume four

Author

Series

Goldie Vance volume 4

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16) Goldie Vance: Volume five,Larceny in La La Land

"Sixteen-year-old Marigold 'Goldie' Vance has an insatiable curiosity and dreams of one day becoming a detective. Luckily for Goldie, with the St. Pascal Rockin' the Beach Music Festival coming to town, there's plenty of inexplicable shenanigans keeping her gumshoe brain busy, from mysterious power outages, to missing musicians, to Russian spies hiding in the shadows."--Publisher description.

Author

Ball, Jacqueline A

Series

Goldie Vance volume 5

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Description

17) Hikaru no go: Vol. 1,Descent of the Go master

"Goldie, Diane, and Cheryl find themselves jetsetting to sunny Los Angeles. Goldie befriends a silent film star and takes on a case of stolen film memorabilia."--Provided by publisher.

Author

Hotta, Yumi

Series

Hikaru no Go volume 1

Description

Hikaru Shindo is like any sixth-grader in Japan: a pretty normal school boy with a two-tone head of hair and a penchant for antics. One day, he finds an old bloodstained Go board in his grandfather's attic-- and that's when things get really interesting. Trapped inside the Go board is Fujiwara-no-Sai, the ghost of an ancient Go master who taught the strategically complex board game to the Emperor of Japan many centuries ago.

18) Kirby manga mania: Volume 1

Author

Hikawa, Hirokazu

Series

Kirby manga mania volume 1

Description

"Kirby and friends get up to yummy hijinks in this delightful manga collection. Join Kirby and his Dream Land friends as they go on zany adventures in manga form! Jump into Dream Land with Kirby and gobble up some fun! Everyone's favorite pink puff teams up with his friends to keep arch-frenemy King Dedede in line. Fans of all ages can enjoy this collection of classic Kirby comics--just take a deep breath and hop on in!"--Amazon.com.

19) The legend of auntie Po

Author

Khor, Shing Yin

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Description

"Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch"--

20) The legend of Zelda: twlight princess.1

Author

Himekawa, Akira

Series

Legend of Zelda: twilight princess volume 1

Description

Once upon a time, wizards tried to conquer the Sacred Realm of Hyrule. The Spirits of Light sealed the wizards' power within the Shadow Crystal and banished them to the Twilight Realm beyond the Mirror of Twilight. Now, an evil menace is trying to find Midna, princess of the Twilight Realm, and the fragments of the Shadow Crystal to gain the power to rule over both the Twilight Realm and the World of Light.

21) Little monarchs

Author

Case, Jonathan

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Description

In the twenty-second century, a sun shift has made it impossible for mammals to survive in the daylight, and ten-year-old Elvie and her caretaker, Flora, are studying the migration route of monarch butterflies along what used to be the western coast of the United States, hoping that something in the butterflies wing scales can be used to protect people from the sun and save humanity from extinction.

22) Measuring up

Author

LaMotte, Lily

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Description

"Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food."--Provided by publisher.

23) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Vol.1BFF

Author

Montclare, Brandon

Series

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 1

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Description

"Lunella Lafayette is an inhuman preteen genius who wants to change the world! THAT JOB would be a lot easier if she wasn't living in mortal fear of her latent inhuman gene. There's no telling what she'll turn into -- but Luna's got a plan. All she needs is an Omni-Wave Projector. Easy, right? That is, until a red-scaled beast is teleported from the prehistoric past to a far-flung future we call...today! Together they're the most Marvelous Team-Up...

24) Pokemon adventures: Black & White.Volume 1

Author

Series

Pokemon adventures. Black & White volume 1

Description

25) Pokemon adventures: Diamond and Pearl platinum,1

While Pokémon trainer Black dreams of winning the league, trainer White dreams of making it big in show business.

Author

Series

Pokemon adventures. Diamond and Pearl platinum volume 1

Description

"Pokemon trainers Pearl and Diamond are starstruck! Their lifelong dream is to floor an audience with their Pokemon comedy act. So how do they wind up as bodyguards to a pampered little rich girl on a quest to reach the peak of Mt. Coronet ...?!"--P. [4] of cover.

26) Pokémon Adventures: X•Y, Volume 1

Author

Series

Pokémon Adventures X•Y

Formats:

eBook, Kindle

Description

Now it's up to X to use the skills that made him champion to defeat the threat looming over Vaniville Town.Can the reclusive X and the determined Y help their friends ward off two Legendary Pokémon and the mysterious Team Flare?!...Rated:A ©2021 Pokémon. ©1995-2020 Nintendo / Creatures Inc. / GAME FREAK inc. TM, ®, and character names are trademarks of Nintendo.POCKET MONSTERS SPECIAL © 1997 Hidenori KUSAKA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO/SHOGAKUKAN

27) Pokémon : Sun & Moon: Volume 1

Author

Series

Pokemon Sun & Moon volume 1

Description

28) Pokémon adventures: Volume 15,Ruby & Sapphire

Pokémon Sun and Moon video games! Sun dreams of money. Moon dreams of scientific discoveries. When their paths cross with Team Skull, both their plans go awry Moon is on her way to deliver a rare Pokémon to Professor Kukui in the Alola region when she meets his good friend Sun, a courier entrusted with a special Pokédex. Sun offers to safely deliver Moon to the professor's lab But then they tangle with a group of grunts from Team Skull and are...

Author

Series

Pokemon adventures. Original series volume 16

Description

Rather than following in their fathers' footsteps, Ruby and Sapphire both want to win Pokémon contests, so they hit it off when they meet. But then Sapphire challenges Ruby to a competition.

29) The real Riley Mayes

Author

Elliott, Rachel

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Description

"Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking Joy Powers! Things start to look up when a classmate,...

30) Sea Sirens: a Trot & Cap'n Bill adventure

Author

Chu, Amy

Series

Trot & Cap'n Bill adventures volume 1

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Description

Trot, a Vietnamese American surfer girl, and Cap'n Bill, her cranky one-eyed cat, catch too big a wave and wipe out, sucked down into a magical underwater kingdom where an ancient deep-sea battle rages. The beautiful Sea Siren mermaids are under attack from the Serpent King and his slithery minions--and Trot and her feline become dangerously entangled in this war of tails and fins. This beautiful graphic novel was inspired by The Sea Fairies, L. Frank...

31) Snapdragon

Author

Leyh, Kat

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32) Space Battle Lunchtime: Volume one,Lights, camera, snacktion!

"Snap's town had a witch. At least, that's how the rumor goes. But in reality, Jacks is just a crocks-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online--after doing a little ritual to put their spirits to rest. It's creepy, sure, but Snap thinks it's kind of cool, too. They make a deal: Jacks will teach Snap how to take care of the baby opossums that Snap rescued, and Snap will help Jacks with her work. But as Snap starts to get...

Author

Riess, Natalie

Series

Space Battle Lunchtime volume 1

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Description

33) Space battle lunchtime: Volume two,A recipe for disaster

"Space Battle Lunchtime is a hit show broadcast all over the universe, and the new season is about to start! When one of the competing chefs drops out at the last minute, an aspiring baker from Earth, Peony, is offered the chance to compete for fame, glory, and a 20,000 Solarbuck prize. All she has to do is impress the alien judges and beat the other five chefs (also aliens): mysterious Neptunia, sneaky Melonhead, intimidating Jacques, fierce Owline,...

Author

Riess, Natalie

Series

Space Battle Lunchtime volume 2

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Description

34) Space battle lunchtime: Vol. three,A dish best served cold

"It's almost time for the season finale of Space Battle Lunchtime, and finalist Peony (the only Earth contestant) is nowhere to be found! That's because she's been kidnapped and taken to the set of Space Battle Lunchtime's biggest rival, Cannibal Coliseum, where chefs compete to cook...each other. Up against some of the most dangerous aliens in the galaxy, will Peony even make it to the end of the show? Stay tuned!" -- Provided by publisher.

Author

Riess, Natalie

Series

Space battle lunchtime volume Vol. 3

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Description

"Peony may have come in second place on the mega popular cooking show Space Battle Lunchtime, but with a girlfriend and a royal catering gig for a space empress, she's on top of the world--until she finds out her old rival Melonhead is catering the same event. But that's a picnic--she's dealt with Melonhead before. What she hasn't dealt with is her girlfriend Neptunia's mysterious past, which comes to a head when Nep's sister turns out to be the empress's...

35) Swim team

Author

Christmas, Johnnie

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Description

"Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help"--

36) The Tea Dragon Society

Author

O'Neill, K

Series

Tea dragon series volume 1

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Description

After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about the dying art form of Tea Dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners.

37) The tryout

Author

Soontornvat, Christina

Description