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The Alice Network: A Reese's Book Club Pick By Kate Quinn Cover Image
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Captain Grey's Gambit: A Novel (A Thomas Grey Novel #2) By J. H. Gelernter Cover Image
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Countdown: Amy Cornwall Is Patterson’s Greatest Character Since Lindsay Boxer By James Patterson, Brendan DuBois Cover Image
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Only the Dead: A Thriller (Terminal List #6) By Jack Carr Cover Image
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    The Force: A Novel By Don Winslow Cover Image
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    For Every One By Jason Reynolds Cover Image
  • My Dad Is a Tree By Jon Agee Cover Image
  • How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up By Catherine Newman Cover Image
  • What Can I Say?: A Kid's Guide to Super-Useful Social Skills to Help You Get Along and Express Yourself; Speak Up, Speak Out, Talk about Hard Things, and Be a Good Friend By Catherine Newman Cover Image
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    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse By Charlie Mackesy Cover Image
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    Drawn Together By Minh Lê, Dan Santat (Illustrator), Dan Santat (Cover design or artwork by) Cover Image
  • What My Daddy Loves By Raissa Figueroa, Raissa Figueroa (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Whoops . . . I'm Awesome: A Workbook with Activities, Art, and Stories for Embracing Your Wonderfully Awesome Self By Melissa Villaseñor Cover Image
  • A First Time for Everything By Dan Santat Cover Image
  • Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties By Beth Kobliner Cover Image
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike By Phil Knight Cover Image
  • Weird Crescenta Valley: Historical and Natural Oddities By Mike Lawler Cover Image
  • Dad Bakes By Katie Yamasaki Cover Image
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann Cover Image

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Doodleville By Chad Sell Cover Image

Doodleville (Paperback)

By Chad Sell
$12.99

Welcome to Doodleville, everyone!!! This beloved author, Chad Sell, brings us to his next fabulous graphic novel, Doodleville, which grabs the reader, heart and soul!! Doodleville brings us into a normal school, to a normal group of kids, in a normal art club.....except that these kids' doodles come alive!!! Drew loves her doodles dearly, but when one of her doodles goes rogue and hurts the other student's characters, she is wisked away on an adventure that teaches her so much: the complexities of friendship, the strength that lies in trusting yourself, and the power of working together with friends that can save the day!! Chad Sell's trademark combo of fun, vibrant artwork and deeply emotional and human storytelling makes you smile throughout, and reminds you that "being different can make you powerful." Sell's work is also a perfect example of representation as it should be: people of all types existing together, just like in real life. And while having a blast visiting Doodleville, you may even learn a bit of art history! No matter what, you'll surely be smiling till the very last page.
 
Be sure to check out this author's first wonderful graphic novel too, Cardboard Kingdom!
 
(Graphic Novel, Ages 8+) - reviewed by Iz


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