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Author
Series
Lunch Lady volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The school lunch lady, a secret crime fighter, sets out to stop a group of librarians bent on destroying a shipment of video games, while a group of students known as the Breakfast Bunch provides back-up.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the dispassionate editor, the willful obscurantism...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"'Weir and Steenz have crafted a freshly-textured ghost story for the new millennium. It's a grand mystery, a pointed critique, and a celebration of individual resilience all wrapped up with a perfectly charming dose of the macabre.'--Daniel F. Yezbick. (Back cover) The Logan Museum is a mysterious old building practically covered in skulls, and also the new workplace of Celeste "Cel" Walden, a librarian who was let go from her previous job after...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Kazarian and his students step up to help when Walden's hearing aid picks up a distress call from the alien colonists called Arrok, when a large asteroid collides with their settlement. Includes facts about asteroids, glossary, and discussion questions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"At the Mallville Public Library they've seen it all. Like Naked Ned, who takes Freedom of Expression to new lengths. Or Merv, who does everything in the library but read. Or Buddy the Book Beaver, ex-con tree surgeon turned summer reading program mascot. Or the missing books that keep showing up on eBay. Or the amorous teenagers who won't take it outside. In all this chaos and insanity, who ya gonna call? Why, a librarian of course. But please -...
Author
Series
Mr. Kazarian alien librarian volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Kazarian, the school librarian, is actually an extraterrestrial (with a holographic disguise) studying the behavior of human children, and if he wants to continue his research he will have to find a way to convince the four students who have discovered his secret not to expose him--perhaps by helping their assignment on gas giants with a quick trip to Jupiter.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Kazarian's evil cousin Kronkhold has a black hole generator, and it is up to the alien librarian and the four students who know his secret to stop Kronkhold before his device swallows Earth, and the rest of the solar system--and get back to Earth in time for TJ, Dani, Shea, and Walden to make their class presentation on Albert Einstein.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Unshelved entertains tens of thousands of library workers, teachers, and book nerds around the world with tales of what really goes on behind the desk, between the stacks, and in the staff lounge of your local public library. In this, the final collection, you'll find over two years of full-color comic strips including the third Unshelved graphic novella, Lights out.
10) Spell-bound
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While cramming for her spelling test at an old library, Avery suddenly finds the words of her vocabulary workbook coming alive and wrapping around her --it is a cursed book, created by the evil Spellbinder, and only the Librarian can help her escape from the trap.
11) Book of storms
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Pablo, twelve, and his younger brother Alex find a book on extreme weather, only to discover the book does not just discribe weather, it creates it--and only the Librarian can control the book's power.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
English edition; Kodansha Comics edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ambition tested. Theo has set out from his hometown on a journey to the great city of Aftzaak with three goals: to see the city he's longed for his whole life, to take the test to become a Kafna, and to return the book lent to him by Sedona seven years earlier -- the book that changed his life. The journey is difficult and the road long, but the world is filled with things for a young scholar like Theo to learn. Yet no matter how prepared he feels,...
13) The howling book
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Shay Isley loves to read but she has become bored by the usual stories so she turns to the horror section and finds the book, Attack of the Moon Beast; but when night comes this book turns into a monster, part werewolf and part book--and only the Librarian can save her and her little brother from becoming its prey.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Whitney and Ben are two middle school students on a field trip to a college library for a research project; but the bored teens venture through a door marked "Special Collection Sinister History" and meet the evil Archivist who collects tales of the world's oldest, most terrifying creatures and uses magic to bring them to life--she is looking to bring a local legend called The Stalker into the real world and only the Librarian can save Ben and Whitney...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
English edition; Kodansha Comics edition.
Language
English
Description
A story about a poor boy swept away by a kind library mage and the (literal) magic of reading, Magus of the Library is a beautifully-drawn, spirited fantasy adventure, like a Fullmetal Alchemist for all ages! Theo has completed the first part of the grueling exam to become a kafna, but he's not in the clear yet--there are two more trials he must face. Even if he makes it through the second test, an intense face-to-face oral examination, the last challenge...
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