Check out what books I've been reading this month 📚
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| Hello, everyone! As we're all deep into purchasing season, I hope you're all finding some fantastic manga to add to your libraries, and that your students are enjoying your new finds. Feel free to share photos, reels, unboxings, reactions, etc. as I love to see the results of all your hard work! |
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| After 1000 reviews, I've continued to welcome other professionals to write some guest reviews for The Graphic Library! I am glad to welcome the librarian who encouraged me to start down this journey to begin with - Katie McNamara, school librarian from California. You can read more about Katie's professional accolades on our About Us page. |
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| Some of these went live November 1st, but as we're in the thick of purchasing season, I figure, why wait until the November newsletter! |
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| Ken Kanashiro, a fierce yakuza second-in-command, has his life turned upside down when he's introduced to a K-Pop band by Megumi, the boss’s daughter. He becomes transfixed by one of the band’s members and launches into super fandom with the help of Megumi. Ken begins collecting rare merchandise, joins social media to post elaborate fanfic and amasses a following, attends many concerts, and finds other yakuza super fans.
Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 |
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| In a dystopian-esque world full of deadly assassins and criminals, Shizuka is a seemingly pleasant young girl trying to get by and survive. Few know that she is the contact for one of the most fearsome assassins - her brother Nagi, who has been left paralyzed and comatose after a bullet became lodged in his brain during an attack against Shizuka. Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 |
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| Kano was the top of his class until transfer student Sawatari got there. Now, he’s bested by her on all tests no matter how much he studies. But he finds release from his frustrations in playing his favorite card game - Magic: The Gathering. He takes a trip to a new card shop an hour by bike and discovers a group of hardcore players, including a girl playing a killer mono White deck.
Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 |
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| Sasaki is a stressed out office worker who finds comfort in the smile and work-ethic of Miss Yamada, a cashier at his local supermarket. He often buys snacks and other items even if he doesn’t need them just so he can catch a glimpse of her radiant smile. One day, he exits the store and looks for a place to light up his other stress relief and finds there are no smoking sections. A store employee beckons him to join her behind the store in a smoking area reserved for employees.
Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Adult |
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| Pyontaro is trying to live his teenage life away from his annoying little sister, Futaba, but she’s constantly intruding in the most inopportune times. He and his two friends attend classes where they learn about the multiverse theory and daydream about girls. One day, they take home a strange disk from one of their teachers that opens a portal to another world, a bizarre multiverse where Futaba is captured by aliens!
Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12
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| In the small town of Belle River, Canada, bugs known as Fishflies descend upon the residents for once a week every year. But once a generation, a different plague besets them. What started as a simple dare lands one young boy in the hospital and begins a manhunt that entangles the boy’s classmate, Franny. The young girl takes pity on the fugitive and makes a friend in the process.
Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12, Adult |
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| When his parents get divorced, Yuuta decides he won’t get close to another woman so he can’t be disappointed by them again. Then, his father remarries, and he becomes brother to a stepsister his same age. Yuuta's new stepsister is also closed off and mysterious, and the two strike up an uneasy truce in order to cohabitate.
Sara's Rating: 7/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 |
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| Kimi Kosmic is a fearless space cowgirl living on Pax. She thrives in her exciting environment at the edge of the galaxy, riding around in her space ship the Black Dragon Supernova with her cowboy partner, Pocketts. Kimi spends her days herding space cattle on the ranch, and her nights quad racing. The challenging but fulfilling life Kimi leads is destabilized when a strange cowboy, Leather Tongue the Awesome, bursts into town with secrets that threaten to unravel everything she believes in.
**Moni’s rating: 9/10**
Suitability Level: Grades 6-8 |
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| All of the pieces of Laios' plan are coming to a head as the Winged Lion is about to break through the dungeon and unleash the magic of the dungeon on the surface. If Laios understands the ultimate monster correctly, he and his friends may actually come out of this, but that also means that the Canary Elves and Kabru must trust in Laios' knowledge and a plan they weren't privy to.
Sara's Rating: 9/10
Suitability Level: Grades 7-12 |
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| During a school trip to the beach, a friend group is shaken up when two of them give into their feelings and become a couple. Amber and Nico lose themselves in each other and completely and forget their friends. Slumber parties stop. Hanging out stops. When the friend group speaks up, Amber and Nico escape further into each other and into a dream world where everything is peaceful -- until Nico wants to return, and Amber doesn’t.
**Katie’s Rating: 9/10**
Suitability Level: Grades 7-12 |
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| Shizuki and Kusunoki spent junior high as social outcasts, but both have made themselves over coming into high school, so much so that neither recognizes the other. Shizuki is determined to reinvent himself and lead an entirely uneventful, normal high school life, but the beautiful Kusunoki in his class complicates things.
Sara's Rating: 6/10
Suitability Level: Grades 7-12 |
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| On the way to work one morning, Suzume finds Kaidou stopped to pay his respects at a shrine for all the deceased dinosaurs, and he tells her the details of the incident fifteen years ago that led to a dinosaur attack and, ultimately, her father’s death. Later, Suzume is entrusted to look after one of the Troodon babies, a runt who was rejected by the flock. Then, she gets to plan a birthday celebration for the park’s aging Tyrannosaurus rex and must consider the dino's special dietary needs when constructing her a birthday cake made of meat.
Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 7-12 |
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| Ten years after a kid named Michael went missing at a local pizza parlor owned by her father, Charlie and her childhood friends are back in her hometown to honor the memory of their friend and help celebrate the scholarship Michael’s parents set up in his honor. Several of the (now) young adults decide to try and find what’s left of the restaurant, which was boarded up, and a shopping mall built up around it.
Sara's Rating: 7/10
Suitability Level: Grades 5-10 |
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| Milly and Billy try to wrestle with their new found powers as demons, and their parents continue to be closed off and provide no answers to their heritage nor in how to do anything. One day, The twins are re-visited by the posessed doll of their neighbor they thought they killed, but the spirit that accompanies her is a murdered girl from across the country.
Sara's Rating: 9/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 |
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