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Blue Lock 2
(Paperback)
Muneyuki Kaneshiro; Illustrated by Yusuke Nomura
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A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. It's a no-balls-barred battle to become Japan's next top striker, in this Squid Game–meets–World Cup manga, now available in print!
WILL YOU SHOOT WITHOUT HESITATION?
Yoichi Isagi, one of three hundred high school soccer players is in Team Z--the lowest ranked group in the controversial training facility, Blue Lock, where the aim is to create Japan's best striker.
To survive their first round-robin tournament, Isagi's Team Z will need to find a way to use their unique "weapons," while struggling through a clash of egos. But Isagi grapples to understand what his strength is as a striker...
Shakespeare's Hamlet like you've never seen it - or read it -
before! Classics in Graphics: Hamlet has been adapted into a
graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow,
with illustrations by Alessandro Valdrighi and Edu Rubio. The
tragic mayhem swirls on the page - as Hamlet's life crumbles around
him. Classics in Graphics is a series of graphic novels for
children aged 10 plus that has inclusion at its heart, flinging
wide the doors of literature for everyone to enter and understand.
Including dyslexia-friendly design on every page, and encouraging
readers to relate to these iconic roles - casting spells, falling
in love and winning duels. Each graphic novel includes
pitch-perfect illustrations for presenting the tragic, the
romantic, the comedic, the magical, as well as: - snappy simplified
text presenting Shakespeare's themes clearly - introductory
materials to help set the scene and context of each story - heaps
of extra material at the back to keep the learning and fun going,
including an exploration of themes in the play, the language,
Shakespeare's inspirations, the publication and performance of the
play in history, a timeline of Shakespeare's life and works, and
much more! Plays available in the series include: Macbeth The
Tempest Hamlet Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado
About Nothing
After breaking a "curse" on the imperial heirs, a palace servant with training in herbal medicine is promoted up the ranks to food taster...and right into the thick of palace intrigue in this lushly illustrated period mystery series!
Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn't long for a life of drudgery! Using her wits to break a "curse" afflicting the imperial heirs, Maomao attracts the attentions of the handsome eunuch Jinshi and is promoted to attendant food taster. But Jinshi has other plans for the erstwhile apothecary, and soon Maomao is back to brewing potions and...solving mysteries?!
Could your worst week be funny too? Start Monday with a bang in the
hilarious new series taking the world by storm. Justin Chase is
having the WORST WEEK EVER! His Mum has just married a vampire. His
Dad is driving a giant toilet on wheels. His cat has probably been
abducted by aliens. A bully is making his first day at a new school
miserable. And right now, he's hanging off the edge of a
10-metre-high diving tower in front of his entire class wearing
nothing but rapidly disappearing crocheted swimmers! And it's
only... MONDAY! The first book in the hilarious new seven-part
highly-illustrated series for fans of the globally bestselling
Treehouse series.
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