P. Craig Russell
1) Coraline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their teeth. But there's another mother and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go....
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Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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Fairy tales of Oscar Wilde volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A young woman, having made a string of bad choices, finds herself the pawn of mercenaries - one of which is Conan of Cimmeria. As the former dancing girl poses as the dead oracle of a primitive cult, Conan puts his experience as a thief and a soldier together in pursuit of some of the most prized jewels in the world - the Teeth of Gwahlur.
8) The giver
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Giver quartet graphic novels volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Publisher Annotation: Placed on countless reading lists, translated into more than forty languages, and made into a feature film, The Giver is the first book in The Giver Quartet that also includes Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. In this new graphic novel edition, readers experience the haunting story of twelve-year-old Jonas and his seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment, through the brilliant art of P. Craig Russel...
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Hailed as his finest work, this Eisner Award-winning and critically acclaimed mini-series was adapted by legendary writer and artist P. Craig Russell in direct collaboration with Michael Moorcock.
Elric: Stormbringer marks the final, climactic chapter in the epic Elric story, concluding the saga of doom-driven adventurer Elric of Melniboné, the Eternal Champion and wielder of the Runeblade Stormbringer. The stage is set for an apocalyptic battle...
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Ring of Nibelung volume 1
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The Eisner Award-winning series, finally collected in one volume, presents one of the grandest stories of Western civilization, now one of the most explosive epics in the history of comics. Giants plot against gods, who in turn tear human lovers apart, while the lives of great warriors are ruined, and murder after murder is committed in the name of love and gold. It's the epic as it was meant to be read. This new high point in Russell's distinguished...
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Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard. But it's in the land of the living that the real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives, and he has already killed Bod's family.
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What would the Gotham City of one hundred years ago have been like?. In an age of mystery and superstition, how would the people of Gotham react to a weird creature of the night, a bat-garbed vigilante feared by the guilty and the innocent alike?. Some would live in terror. Others would rest easier. Only one man would take no notice at all, a man with other matters to attend to. His name?. No one knows for sure. Most people know him only as Jack....
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American gods volume 2
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Shadow and Wednesday leave the House on the Rock and continue their journey across the country where they set up aliases, meet new gods, and prepare for war.
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American gods volume 3
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"The new and old gods agree to meet in the center of America to exchange the body of the old gods' fallen leader--heading towards to the inevitable god war in this final arc to the bestselling comic series!" --
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Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 1
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A refugee with a suspicious story brings war to Fabletown, bringing the magical land's decades of uneasy peace to an end.
"For centuries, the Fables have watched the gateways between our mundane world and their lost magical homelands, ever on guard for signs of invasion. Now, after decades of quiet, it seems that someone has finally escaped the Adversary's oppression and made it to sanctuary. But appearances, as always, can be deceiving, and there's...
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In this third volume, Gaiman and Russell once more team with a legendary collection of artists to bring more Norse myths to life, including a wild quest where Thor and Tyr face a multiheaded giantess, fire-breathing sea serpents, and more bizarre mythological creatures; the journey of Odin to the end of the world, and finally we reach the end of the world Ragnarok: the final destiny of the gods.
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"In this second volume, Gaiman and Russell once more team with a legendary collection of artists to bring more Norse myths to life, including the origins of poetry and a mead that many will die for, Thor and Lok's eventful trip into the land of giants, the gods' woeful bargain that might lose them eternal life, and the beloved god Frey's journey to Valhalla and beyond to find a certain missing something.."--Provided by publisher.
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American gods volume 1
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"This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent."--
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"Mike Mignola, best known as the creator of Hellboy, started out his comics art career drawing the adventures of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes, applying his moody artwork to tales of Superman, Batman, Swamp Thing and more. Now, this new collection assembles these stories written by John Byrne, Roger Stern, Neil Gaiman, Paul Kupperberg, and others for the first time."--