Charlie heads back to school after the bombing incident, but everyone thinks he’s become embroiled with the terrorists, and now making friends has become even harder. Charlie’s parents have confided in Lucy, the one friend Charlie did manage to make, and they expressed upon her their struggle to try to win rights for Charlie in the eyes of the law. The Animal Liberation Alliance is not giving up, though, and their next attempt includes radicalization of Charlie’s classmates.
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Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 10-12 Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: June 10, 2025 ISBN: 9798888774953 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Historical Fiction, War, Kodansha 
School Library Journal review
Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: June 17, 2025 ISBN: 9798888773611 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, LGBTQ+, School Life, Romance, Friendship, Kodansha 
The Knights continue to battle the Leech monster and try to get the wounded citizens to the doctors, who are secluded away from the festival and the city. With Coco being attended to by doctors, Qilfrey has to go after Cuestas alone. Beldarut watches over Coco while Qilfrey is away, and he shows Coco a handy spell where she can make her essence into a smoke creature to follow her master. She hopes to convince Cuestas to come with Qilfrey, but a brimmed hat unexpectedly shows up, and the entire plan goes awry.
Two seemingly lost young Russians at the beginning of the Bolshevik era find themselves more or less indentured as servants at a large home, though one must utilize a wheelchair and the other has a serious medical condition. Both are each other’s lifeline, and they stay close to the home despite the hardships it brings them because they are looking for something very valuable from before the fall of Tsar Nicolas II. They endure terrible treatment, endentured servitude masquerading as work for The Party, and much more to achieve their goals.
Illustrated by Denki Amashima
Suzume sets off on her own to find a way back into the Everafter. Her first stop is to talk with Souta’s grandfather, who tells her the only way in is how she entered as a child. This means she must revisit her destroyed childhood home in Northern Japan. As she begins her journey, she is waylaid by her aunt and Souta’s schoolmate, both of whom force their way into her journey. Suzume confronts the memories of her childhood and finds her portal into the Everafter, and the fierce battle waiting for her on the other side. 
On the other side of the castle, away from Silver Eve, a few witches plot in a jail cell. A wizened old man draws many glyphs on a young man and promises that he will turn into an ooze and be able to escape this cell. What he fails to tell him is that there is a horrifying leech guarding the outside of the castle walls, and the man fuses with the leech to create a large monster that invades the castle town during the festivities. The Knights are deployed but have a difficult time fighting the many arms of the monster, and most witches cannot figure out what type of monster they’re fighting. As the giant leech feeds on blood, it grows stronger and covers more of the city, seeking out even more victims.
Adapted by Suzuka Oda
Mayumi had been searching for a mysterious star she saw when she was four years old, and her obsession had fueled her dream to become an astronaut. But years of dead ends and nagging from her parents have caused her to all but give up her dream, something she’s decided to do on the day of her fourteenth birthday. The day before is when she fatefully meets the president of the Pretty Boy Detective Club, a group of dreamily beautiful young men with unique talents who agree to take up the case to help find her missing star. All of them get swept up in something much larger than an astronomy conundrum, and Mayumi comes to accept several things about herself that she had mostly spurned until that point. 
School Library Journal review - part of Spring 2025 Fiction Made Simple, "8 Manga Fiction Series with Emotion, Drama, and All the Feels"
Sara's Rating: 7/10 Suitability Level: Grades 7-12 Reviews of previous volumes in this series: vol 1*, vol 2 Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: October 22, 2024 ISBNs: 9781647293642 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 7/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Science Fiction, Survival, Action Adventure, Kodansha 
Illustrated by Yusuke Nomura
School Library Journal review - part of Spring 2025 Fiction Made Simple, "8 Manga Fiction Series with Emotion, Drama, and All the Feels" Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Reviews of previous volumes in this series: vol 1* Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: 9798888771754 ISBN: October 15, 2024 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Sports, Action Adventure, Survival, Kodansha |
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