It time for the Teen Summer Reading Program! Signing up is painless!
Teens get a card and when you get nine clips from the card, you can turn it in for the drawing and prizes! The grand prize drawing includes $50 cash cards from US Bank.
Anyway, just to tie back in to [...]
Teens Summer Reading Program!
Girls just wanna…
…kick butt and change the world!
Spider-Girl is May Parker, a future daughter of Peter Parker, the amazing Spider-man. She was originally created for a one-shot imaginary story, but was so popular that Marvel continued with her and other “next generation” heroes. And super-hero teens can have a whole set of problems. Her [...]
Mystics and Dimension Travel
xxxHolic and Tsubasa:Reservoir Chronicle are the latest manga being written by the CLAMP artist team. The two series tie in and cross over with the other as well as a variety of other CLAMP series.
Both series start out with deceptively simple storylines.
In xxxHolic, high school student Watanuki is plagued with the ability to [...]
Go West?
The space for shelving manga at the West Duluth branch has doubled! So I need to buy lots of new books for the branch. The patrons there seem to prefer boy’s manga, but I thought I should throw in a few girl’s manga titles as well.
Here are some titles I am thinking of [...]
As Seen On TV
Lots of popular anime is based on popular manga series. These two series have anime that is currently licensed for the Cartoon Network.
Bleach features Ichigo Kurosaki, a young man who starts with the ability to see spirits and accidentally absorbs the powers of a shinigami (Soul Reaper or Death God) from Rukia Kuchiki, a shinigami [...]
A Fine Romance!
In Japan, Valentine’s Day is celebrated by the ladies giving the men in their lives chocolate. Giri-choco (obligation chocolate) is given to friends, bosses, and co-workers so they don’t feel left out. Honmei-choco (potential winner chocolate) is a more expensive or homemade chocolate that a woman gives to a man she likes. [...]
Novels going graphic!
While there is a long history of comic book adaptations of classic stories, the growing popularity of the graphic format is leading to an increase of adapted and original graphic novels by popular authors.
Artemis Fowl the graphic novel is a straight adaptation of the first novel. Criminal genius Artemis Fowl II decides to restore [...]
Star struck revenge!
Skip Beat!
Kyōko Mogami gave up everything for her childhood sweetheart, Shōtaro Fuwa. She dropped out of school, worked multiple jobs, and took care of him at home, while he became a big pop idol. Then she catches him with another woman, proclaiming how he would send away the plain, boring servant girl.
Does Kyoko [...]
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts is based on the video game of the same name. The main character, Sora, travels to various worlds interacting with both Disney and Final Fantasy characters while trying to find King Mickey and eventually battling the Disney Villains.
Kingdom Hearts Chain of memories continues Sora’s story. His friend [...]
Naruto update
As my colleague mentioned here Naruto now has three volumes published per month until the end of the year. The library also has Naruto the movie:Ninja clash in the land of snow.
