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Clock striker vol 2 by issaka galadima and frederick l. jones

12/15/2024

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Cover of Clock Striker volume 2. Cast is holding a wrench and enthusiastically pointing forward. An array of characters is positioned behind her, including Mrs. Clock and the Demon Bandits.
Vol 2: The Sharing Society
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Klaus has been kidnapped by the outlaws known as the Demon Bandits and taken back to his kingdom of Alter. Cast and Mrs. Clock have decided to rescue him, even though that means coming face to face with the deadly and powerful forces from Mrs. Clock’s past as a participant in the war that ravaged the country. Cast and her mentor find themselves in a castle town full of infuriating villagers who bend to the will of a tyrannical ruler, but some of these confusing people might be the only hope they have for saving Klaus.


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Victoria’s Electric Coffin Vol 3 by Ikuno Tajima

11/15/2024

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Cover of Victoria's Electric Coffin volume 3
School Library Journal review

Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 7-12

Publisher: Square Enix
Publication Date: October 1, 2024​
ISBN: 9781646092932​ (Paperback)

​Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Adaptations, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Square Enix

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Victoria's Electric Coffin vol 2 by Ikuno Tajima

11/15/2024

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Cover of Victoria's Electric Coffin vol 2
School Library Journal review

Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 7-12

Publisher: Square Enix
Publication Date: April 2, 2024
ISBN: 9781646092925​ (Paperback)

​Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Adaptations, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Square Enix

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Victoria’s Electric Coffin Vol 1 by Ikuno Tajima

11/15/2024

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Cover of Victoria's Electric Coffin vol 1
School Library Journal review

Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 7-12

Publisher: Square Enix
Publication Date: April 2, 2024
ISBN: 9781646092918 (Paperback)

​Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Adaptations, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Square Enix

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Karneval vol 1 by touya mikanagi

10/19/2023

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Cover of Karneval volume 1. Nai is holding out his wrist with the special Circus bracelet. He has a bandage on his cheek and his side.
Nai is a young boy searching for someone important to him, and all he has for a clue is a valuable bracelet that may entangle him with a secretive organization known as Circus. First, he finds himself being saved repeatedly by Gareki, a young man himself who has a tragic past and who society had not treated kindly. Gareki isn’t exactly a law-abiding citizen, having a strong affinity to making and dissecting explosives, and running afoul of Circus himself, the two nevertheless find themselves in the sights of the organization and somewhat on their way to finding Nai’s important person, and finding more about themselves along the way. Set in a world that is past fantasy, past steampunk with flying airships, magical creatures, and possible chimeras.


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The Least we can do vol 1 by iolanda zanfardino

4/26/2023

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Cover of The Least We Can Do volume 1. Uriel is holding out her hands and her Justice Stone is floating above them bathing everything in a gold light. Her curly blonde hair frames her face. Behind her is a menacing person with red eyes glaring at us.
Illustrated by Elisa Romboli
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In a United Kingdom that has already been ravaged by war, soldiers have magical Medium Stones that augment their deadly fighting skills. Uriel is dissatisfied with the powerful Eden Army, which uses their Medium to oppress and exploit others. She steals a Justice Light, a powerful type of medium, and absconds to join the Eclipse Rebels in the fight to bring Eden down. Uriel also has a mind for inventions and hopes her inside knowledge and creativity can bring more solutions to the Eclipse as they face a foe much larger and much more powerful than they. Along the way, Uriel has to prove herself to the rebels by not only providing them with valuable information but attuning with a stone that already has a master.


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Clock Striker vol 1 By issaka galadima and Frederick L. Jones

2/1/2023

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Cover of Clock Striker volume 1
Vol 1: "I'm Gonna Be a SMITH!"

Booklist review

Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12

Publisher: Saturday AM
Publication Date: February 7, 2023
ISBN: 9780760381571 (Paperback)

​Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, OEL Manga, Manga, Action Adventure, Science, Fantasy, Steampunk, Saturday AM

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Castle in the stars vol 4 by Alex Alice

1/3/2021

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Cover of Castle in the stars volume 4
Vol 4: A Frenchman on Mars

Seraphin and his aethership make it to Mars and find a world teeming with strange life forms and weird versions of aetherite that solidify after you walk through a seeming puddle. Searching for the previous Prussian expedition turns up no survivors, including Seraphin’s father. But Gubbard reveals the true nastiness of his plan to get Seraphin and the others to agree to go to Mars in the first place, and it is steeped in deception! Seraphin is wounded and wakes up abandoned by his fellows. He stumbles upon what he thinks is a winged beast, badly injured, but still he feels the need to save the creature from being a feast to other beasts. The creature ends up being a prominent figure in a fractured Martian society, one half dying out, the other exiled to the desert.


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Castle in the Stars vol 3 by Alex Alice

11/28/2020

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Vol 3: The Knights of Mars

The Knights of the Aether are hiding out at Seraphin's grandfather's house in Brittany.  Seraphin's father travels to London to a society of the best minds, a group he calls "The International Society of the Aether." He seeks to showcase aether ships and to recruit anyone willing to be an ally against the Prussian forces.  But, their meeting is sabotaged, and Seraphin loses contact with his father.  Meanwhile, King Ludwig's sister begs for more information about her brother's whereabouts, and she won't believe he is traveling to Mars.  Then, the Prussian forces are upon them, and it will take everything the Knights have to outwit and escape them, on board a ship hurtling towards Mars!


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Castle in the stars vol 2 by Alex Alice

10/13/2020

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Vol 2: The Moon-King

After the dangerous runaway liftoff from the end of volume 1, the aethernauts, the professor, and the king make it to the moon. The ship has sustained some damages from leaving Earth’s atmosphere, and they’ll have to slingshot around the moon using the moon's gravity if they want to get back to Earth. However, the aether has other plans for them and pulls them to the surface of the moon. On the dark side of the moon, they will have 14 days of lunar daylight before descending into 14 days of lunar night. The lunar day brings about melted snow and provides a thin atmosphere, so the crew sets about repairing the ship. More discoveries on the moon help in repairs and preparing them to return without the balloon that helped them float in Earth’s atmosphere. But, many of these discoveries are too alluring for the king, and he decides to explore on while the rest of the crew returns to Earth.


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