boys

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The kite runner

graphic novel
A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about Amir, a forty-year-old novelist living in the U.S., who returns to his native Afghanistan to right a terrible wrong that ended his boyhood friendship with Hassan, a member of the persecuted Hazara people.

The way he lived

Six young people in a small Utah Mormon community describe how they coped with the death of Joel Espen, a sixteen-year-old who died while hiking, and how Joel's life affected theirs.

Anthem of a reluctant prophet

Luke, a seventeen-year-old from a small Michigan town, embarks on a personal struggle with spirituality, love, and responsibility after foretelling a friend's death.

Jim the boy

a novel
Jim, living with his mother and three uncles in the small hamlet of Aliceville, North Carolina, comes of age in the Depression years and begins to realize the largeness of the world outside his happy home.

Ninja baseball Kyuma!

Ninja boy Kyuma is introduced to baseball and tries to learn how to play, but struggles with the concept of it being a game and not a new type of battle.

Kidnapped

Presents the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about a sixteen-year-old orphan who is kidnapped by his villainous uncle.

3x3 eyes

Pai, a strange and beautiful women, travels to Japan from a hidden land in the Tibetan Highlands hoping to find a young man who can help her in her quest to become a human.

3x3 eyes

Pai, a three-hundred-year-old girl with three eyes, mystic powers, and amnesia, searches China, along with her immortal slave Yakuma, for the artifacts that will restore her memories.

Exploits of a reluctant (but extremely goodlooking) hero

After getting caught stealing from his grandmother's toilet store, the narrator is punished by being forced to work at a soup kitchen, an experience that seems inconsequential until he discovers one of his friends depends on the free food.

Get well soon or else!

Nat and Boyd have plans to go to Camp Willomet for a week, but, four days before camp, Fink gets sick. Nat's hoping Fink will get well in time, or he'll have to face Camp Willomet alone.

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