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Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all. Raina...

After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and three older brothers, Maggie enrolls in public high school, where interacting with her peers is complicated by the melancholy ghost that has followed her throughout her entire life.

Fourth-grade genius Mal and his talking dog Chad shrink themselves to microscopic size and travel through time, but girls and the school bully present bigger challenges.

Amanda's seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when she realizes she has a crush on her best friend, Cat, and uncovers a secret held by her father that could tear her family apart.

"Face it, Tiger--nobody in the Marvel-Verse is more amazing than Mary Jane Watson! And you're about to hit the jackpot in this collection of her greatest adventures! First, the greatest love story in comics begins as Mary Jane navigates high school with her friends Liz Allan, Harry Osborn, "Flash" Thompson and Peter Parker! Her life is soon turned upside down when she makes a new friend in her neighborhood��� the Amazing Spider-Man! But when...

"Enn is a fifteen-year-old boy who just doesn't understand girls, while his friend Vic seems to have them all figured out. Both teenagers are in for the shock of their young lives, however, when they crash a local party only to discover that the girls there are far, far more than they appear!"--

Do you love networking to advance your career? Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared? Ugh. Please go away. These casually drawn, perfectly on-point comics by the hugely popular young Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Andersen are for the rest of us. They document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, and dreaming all day of getting...

Yumiko was born in Japan but has made a life in London, losing herself in its cosmopolitan bustle. She has a gallery show of her art, a good job, and a good guy she plans to marry. The culture she grew up in seems very far away—until her brother phones with the news that their father has died. Yumiko returns to Tokyo and finds herself immersed in the rituals of death while also plunged into the rituals of life—fish bars, bullet trains,...

The sweet "aww"-inspiring tale of school life continues!! Hori and Miyamura decide to ring in the New Year at the local shrine...but with it comes their last term in high school. As the pair and their friends return to their everyday lives and usual hijinks, both the special days and the humdrum ones prove irreplaceable. But these precious days can't last forever...

Oliver has a crush on Hannah Montana until Lily comes up with plan to burst Oliver's romantic fantasy. In another episode, Jackson is feeling the power of a high powered engine and the imagined smell of burning rubber when he becomes the new owner of a brand-new used car. Then his machismo is deflated when he learns that this car is driven only by girls. Illustrated with scenes from the television series.