P. Craig Russell
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Hailed as his finest work, this Eisner Award-winning and critically acclaimed mini-series was adapted by legendary writer and artist P. Craig Russell in direct collaboration with Michael Moorcock.
Elric: Stormbringer marks the final, climactic chapter in the epic Elric story, concluding the saga of doom-driven adventurer Elric of Melniboné, the Eternal Champion and wielder of the Runeblade Stormbringer. The stage is set for an apocalyptic battle...
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Ring of Nibelung volume 1
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The Eisner Award-winning series, finally collected in one volume, presents one of the grandest stories of Western civilization, now one of the most explosive epics in the history of comics. Giants plot against gods, who in turn tear human lovers apart, while the lives of great warriors are ruined, and murder after murder is committed in the name of love and gold. It's the epic as it was meant to be read. This new high point in Russell's distinguished...
3) Coraline
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IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their teeth. But there's another mother and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go....
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Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 2
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2014.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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The concluding volume of the graphic novel adaptation. A boy, raised by the inhabitants of the local graveyard rally to protect him from a league of villains named Jack who seek to destroy him.
5) The giver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Presents a graphic novelization of Lois Lowry's novel in which Jonas, a boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is receives special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
6) The Giver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
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A fox, having assumed the form of a woman in order to lure a solitary monk from his temple, thus winning a bet with a badger, ends up falling in love with the young man; and when she overhears a group of demons who have been dispatched to kill the monk and steal his inner peace, the fox/woman begins her struggle to save him.
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[1997]
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One of Russell's best noted achievements, his adaptation of stories from Kipling's "Jungle Book" are at long last available in one beautiful full color trade paperback with flaps. Includes "The King's Ankus," "Red Dog" and "The Spring Running." Recommended by Parents' Choice '98.
12) Norse Mythology
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odins son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki-son of a giant-blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassed manipulator. Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits...
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"From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman (American Gods), this fantasy story blends the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft and Roger Zelazny. This new edition of Only the End of the World Again features a brand new cover, in a new deluxe hardcover format; with bonus material including high res scans of the inks and layouts. The story features an adjustor, Lawrence Talbot...
14) Death
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The first story introduces the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every century, Death walks the Earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. As a young mortal girl named Didi, Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. What follows is a sincere musing on love, life and (of course) death. In the second story, a rising star of the...
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Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that his entire family has been murdered and he is now being raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
17) Shadows
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American gods volume 1
Pub. Date
February 2018.
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"This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent."--
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Arguably the most famous and beloved of Oscar Wilde's nine fairy tales, this particular rendition stands apart from the others due to its brilliant illustrations by a master of comic art. After dying young, the Happy Prince's soul inhabits a beautiful ruby-encrusted statue covered in gold leaf which is perched high above the city. But when he sees the poverty, misery and desperateness of his people, he enlists the help of a barn swallow to remove...
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With brilliant illustrations by a master of comic art, the lyrical prose of this fairy tale by Oscar Wilde is brought to life. A hideous dwarf is captured in the woods and brought in to the court of the beautiful royal infanta for her amusement. He is full of good humor and tricks and becomes quite popular but remains quite unaware of his looks. She has him perform in front of her friends for her birthday. He is very touched and quite proud to receive...
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Sandman The Dream Hunters volume 1
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THE DREAM HUNTERS is a lovingly crafted piece of work. Russell produces ... as faithful an adaptation as one could ever hope for.'-IGN THE SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS is a graphic novel adaptation of Gaiman's novella of the same name, illustrated by Yoshitako Amano. The world was different in old Japan. In those days, creatures of myth and legend walked upon the earth, swam in the sea, flew through the air. Some were wild and some, at great cost, could...