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.
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Humans have all but destroyed the world and now live in hiding. Creatures across the world hunt and eat humans as tasty treats. One day, a guardian forest spirit, himself towards the end of his life, discovers a human child alone in the woods bound and abandoned. Moved to kindness, the guardian golem determines to bring the poor creature to other humans, rather than leave it to the ravenous others lurking in the woods. Somali is filled with wonder and a passion for tasting lots of dishes that amuses the forest spirit and brings out a defensiveness they didn't know they had, and the two venture forth through the wild world in search of Somali's people.
Mio sets out to look for Yuri and finds out that July, the fox Elementsia, took him deep into the Forest of Rejection, where humans can’t enter but she seems to be able to go. July is waiting for her and tells her his tragic backstory. Millicuffs residents break through the forest in an attempt to rescue her but end up agrivating July, so Mio tries to appease everyone by offering to take July with her on her quest. Mio, Yuri, and July are smuggled out of the country into Totodoro, the next neighboring country, where Mio attracts the attention of another prince and is quickly captured.
 Vol 2: The ghost and the stolen dragon
Booklist starred review Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 3-6 Reviews of previous volumes in this series: vol 1 Publisher: JY (Yen Press) Publication Date: October 15, 2024 ISBN: 9781975311261 (Hardcover) Tags: Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: Elementary School, Graphic Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, School Life, Yen Press 
Vol 1: The Silver Eyes, adapted by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley, illustrated by Claudia Schröder
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. On the first night, everything's fine. The second night, however, as a larger group decides to walk down memory lane, things start to get weird and some of the horrors of their childhood start to come back and revisit them. 
Vol 1: Escape from Complex 12, illustrated by Emma Galloway, colored by Iacopo Calisti, lettered by LetterSquid
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. This sets Kimi and her crew off to find her long lost father before the corporation can strike again.  Booklist review
Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 6-10 Publisher: UDON Entertainment Publication Date: October 1, 2024 ISBN: 9781772943443 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Elementary School, Manga, Biography, Educational, Nonfiction, History, UDON Entertainment 
Blue begins studying at the Helios Training Academy but continues to have difficulty as an outcast with black wings. Prince Cassian constantly ignores her in public and downplays their familiarity, which makes her question if she should be at the Academy. Nevertheless, Blue holds tight to her dream of being an archangel. She crosses swords with Archangel Steele in a test and even meets Steele’s sworn soul partner. Blue makes a new friend and reconnects with an old one, and Prince Cassian finally reveals to her an age-old prophecy that has her tangled in the fate of the kingdom.
Illustrated by Jes and Cin Wibowo
Tony is constantly the new kid at school, having made many transfers, but this latest school is proving to be even more challenging with a more than fair share of bullies pointing out every eccentricity Tony has and posting much of it to social media. It becomes too much for Tony to handle - the bullies suck all of the joy and light from his days until he's ready to give up completely. His parents begin having him go to therapy, and he switches schools yet again to one where most students are more accepting and there are fewer bullies. Tony finds a home with the Literature Club and even finds his voice again as a champion for others with their own bullies and in their self-expression.  Booklist starred review
Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 5-10 Publisher: UDON Entertainment Publication Date: September 3, 2024 ISBN: 9781772943085 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: Elementary School, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Nonfiction, Art, Animals, UDON Entertainment |
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