Books for 6th and 7th Graders - Spring 2019 | Gail Borden Public Library District

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1) Tips & tricks: over 100 essential techniques to sharpen your skills

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Hart, Christopher

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"The third title in Christopher Hart's bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime series is essential for all anime artists who want to fine-tune their skills. This is the guide that all anime and manga artists--of any level--need! Chris Hart delves deep into the specifics of drawing anime characters and scenes and explores every aspect of anime forms. He reveals his secrets for composing a complete picture, and discusses rarely covered topics. Entirely...

2) Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World from Bird and Moon

Author

Mosco, Rosemary

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Birding is My Favorite Video Game is a collection of fun, quasi-educational comics combining weird science, cute visuals, sweet wit, and a strong environmental message. Based on the popular webcomic Bird and Moon, this collection brings facts about birds, bees, and insects to life in the quirkiest, most wonderful way.

3) The complete cookbook for young chefs

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4) The creativity project

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"Book advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge! Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other; photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds into any form of creative work they wanted to share. The...

5) The dogist puppies

Author

Friedman, Elias Weiss

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"The book presents a gallery of puppy portraits arranged into themes including Ears, Big Paws, Cones of Shame, Learning to Walk, and Fancy Outfits, giving every dog lover something to pore over." -- From Amazon.com summary.

6) The Dogist: photographic encounters with 1,000 dogs

Author

Friedman, Elias Weiss

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A treasury of expressive canine portraits is complemented by subject stories and characteristics and is thematically organized under sections ranging from "Puppies" and "Cones of Shame" to "Working Dogs" and "Dogs in Fancy Outfits."

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eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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"Beautifully drawn, brutally funny, brilliantly honest. Vera is such a good cartoonist I almost can't stand it." —Raina Telgemeier, author of Smile
In Be Prepared, all Vera wants to do is fit in—but that's not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps. Vera's single mother can't afford that sort of luxury, but there's one

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8) Funny, you don't look autistic: a comedian's guide to life on the spectrum

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McCreary, Michael

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks" different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary got hit with the performance bug not much later. During a difficult time in junior high, he started journaling,...

9) No fixed address

Author

Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin

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Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.

10) Game changer

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While thirteen-year-old Teddy fights for his life after a football injury at training camp, his friends and family gather to support him and discuss events leading to his coma. Told through dialogue, text messages, newspaper articles, transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy's inner thoughts.

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Turner, Megan Whalen

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.

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New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1

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2020 Audie Awards® Finalist—Middle Grade

Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature, and an Audie Award finalist!

An original full-cast audio adaptation of the graphic novel from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft, performed by the author with Jesus Del Orden, Nile Bullock, Robin Miles,

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13) Share your smile: Raina's guide to telling your own story

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Telgemeier, Raina

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Offers writing prompts, activities, and tips and techniques for writing and illustrating a story.

14) It wasn't me

Author

Levy, Dana Alison

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Book, eAudiobook

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When Theo's photography project is vandalized, the five students nearby all claim it was not them, so Theo's favorite teacher suggests they all spend vacation week together and get to the truth.

15) Making friends

Author

Gudsnuk, Kristen

Series

Making friends (Kristen Gudsnuk) volume 1

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When she and her friends are placed in different classes and begin liking different things at the start of seventh grade, Dany inherits a magic sketchbook and uses it to create a perfect best friend, but this best friend soon becomes far from perfect.

16) Sal & Gabi break the universe

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Hernandez, Carlos Alberto Pablo

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In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.

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Vande Velde, Vivian

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Witnessing a bank robbery gone awry, misfit 15-year-old Zoe, a girl with supernatural ability to jump back in time and repeat events with up to 10 tries, attempts to stop the crime, but only makes things worse with each successive effort.