 Vol 5: A Place Like Home, ills by Drew Zucker, colored by Vittorio Astone
Booklist starred review Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 5-12 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Publication Date: April 29, 2025 ISBN: 9781506742762 (Hardcover) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: Elementary School, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Comicbooks, Fantasy, Dark Horse
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Penelope is inches away from getting Eckles to 100% affection and completing her plan to escape, and it can't come fast enough. She is days away from her coming-of-age ceremony when the true daughter, Ivonne, is supposed to return. After the events on the island of Soleil that entangled Penelope and Callisto and caused her to embrace powerful magical abilities, Penelope reluctantly accepts an invitation to the crown prince's birthday celebration and a rumor-filled dance that sparks outrage from her family. Callisto extends an invitation to formally court Penelope, throwing a wrench in all of her carefully laid plans. Could Callisto's red and locked affection meter have a different meaning than Eckles' grey yet nearly full? As the fateful date approaches, Penelope suffers what seems to be the ultimate betrayal as the game's events are changed and her plans are put into jeopardy! 
Vol 1: If I Only had a Heart, ills by Drew Zucker, colored by Vittorio Astone
Booklist starred review Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 5-12 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Publication Date: June 18, 2024 ISBN: 9781506743622 (Hardcover) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: Elementary School, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Comicbooks, Fantasy, Dark Horse 
Vol 2: The Hollow Men, ills by Drew Zucker, colored by Vittorio Astone
Booklist starred review Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 5-12 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Publication Date: July 9, 2024 ISBN: 9781506743639 (Hardcover) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: Elementary School, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Comicbooks, Fantasy, Dark Horse 
The year is 1965, and it is a dangerous time for Jews in the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Rabbi Rafael Grossman travels to the area to investigate reports of Jewish persecution for himself. Despite being welcomed as a guest by the Soviet government with the caveat that he maintains a strict schedule, the rabbi slips away to embark on a secret journey. Armed but nothing with an address and a partial idea of what he is walking into, he’s unaware that what he is about to encounter will irrevocably alter the way he interacts with humanity. Inspired by true events, this Eisner-nominated graphic novel captures a snippet of Jewish perseverance during an overlooked era when a different type of Holocaust, a spiritual Holocaust, was happening in the USSR.
Adapted by Komo Ushino, character design by Nanna Fujimi
School Library Journal starred review Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 7-12 Publisher: Yen Press Publication Date: February 18, 2025 ISBN: 9798855405460 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Action Adventure, Fantasy, Survival, Family, Yen Press 
Gen and his family of four siblings and parents live in Hiroshima, Japan during WWII. Times are very difficult — there is little to eat thanks to most of the food going to the war effort; neighbors report each other for speaking out against the war; and constraint air raids have everyone on edge. Gen’s brother Akira is evacuated with his school into the countryside while his father is hauled in and severely beaten for saying he doesn’t support the war. This causes the entire family to be branded as traitors and encourages the eldest son Koji to volunteer early for the pilot training force. Gen and Shinji constantly get into antics, which are usually pointless until their pregnant mother becomes ill, then the boys decide to use their skills to beg for change to help buy her nutritious food. Their days pass on while, looming in the background, American scientists inch closer to the atomic age.
Doctor Rei's other patient, Miss Alde, finally arrives, but she isn’t like Mira suspected. Alde wants nothing to do with Mira and believes that no one can truly understand her affliction. Alde suffers from shadow sickness, which makes her unable to be outside in the sunshine, nor have anything touch her that has had the sun shine on it. Mira enlists the help of Mr. Capri to try to break down the walls Alde has built around herself. After Alde and Mira’s encounter, Miss Stella takes Mira on an adventure to a beautiful night forest full of wonderful starry rivers, magical creatures, and illuminated plantlife.
Illustrated by Max Fiumara, colored by Dave McCaig, lettered by Rus Wooton
Pigeon returns home to try to help his family but finds his village has been decimated by storms from the uncontrolled tides of Luna’s abandoned post. Soluna wanders the wilderness and is attacked by a mysterious inky blob. When Pigeon is discovered by the kingdom’s monk, he is chastised for not carrying out his sacrificial duty correctly and sent to Aquarius’ kingdom in order to make things right with the gods. Meanwhile, Soluna wanders into a different village looking for help but is spurned there because everyone believes her to be a beggar.  Carina and Ana attend a high stakes dance school in Bucharest, Romania, where if you aren’t good enough, if your body is taking up too much space, if you were hurt too long, if you don’t do better, you will lose all you ever wanted. Carina puts all she is into dance. Ana puts all she is into Carina. Ana's roommate, Sara, is possibly the best dancer the school has ever had, but she's infatuated with her teacher. Each practice or missed practice exposes the flaws of the unrequited relationships. Perhaps the next dance will be the one that gets them to understand who they are, their potential, and their dreams.
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