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Hana-Kimi, Vol. 1

Hisaya Nakajo · 184 pages

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Vampire Knight, Vol. 5

Matsuri Hino

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the day class and the night class. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of the school, protecting the day class from the Academy's dark secret: the night class is full of vampires!

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Kitchen Princess, Vol. 01

Miyuki Kobayashi · 208 pages

Najika is a gifted cook and attends the prestigious Seika Academy cooking school. Her friendship with two brothers, Sora and Daichi, creates resentment with other girls at the school. Her greatest rival is a popular, teen model, Akane who tries to drive Najika from the school by staging a cooking contest.

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Gakuen Alice, Vol. 09

Tachibana Higuchi · 192 pages

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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1

Bisco Hatori · 184 pages

A female scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School ends up working for the school's swankiest club after she stumbles upon the all-male Host Club--who mistake her for a boy--and accidentally destroys a valuable vase. While working off her debt, she learns how the other half really lives.

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Rosario+Vampire, Vol. 3

Akihisa Ikeda · 178 pages

Tsukune is trying to hide the fact that he is human from the rest of Yokai because monsters kill humans on sight, especially humans who discover the existence of Yokai. Now, Kuyo, leader of the Security Enforcement Committee, has gotten a hot tip that Tsukune is human. Not only does that mean death for Tsukune, but his friends and allies--Moka and the rest of the newspaper club--may also have to d

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Skim

Mariko Tamaki · 146 pages

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself — possibly because he's (maybe) gay — the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with he

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My Hero Academia, Vol. 02

Kohei Horikoshi · 208 pages

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Food Wars!, Vol. 6

Yuto Tsukuda · 192 pages

Soma Yukihira s old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father s culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue, his father decides to enroll Soma in a classy culinary school! Can Soma really cut it in a place that prides itself on a 10 percent graduation rate? And can he convince the beautiful,

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La Esperança, Volume 01

Chigusa Kawai · 208 pages

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Sand Chronicles, Volume 2

Hinako Ashihara · 200 pages

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Winger

Andrew Smith

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.

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Gakuen Alice, Vol. 01

Tachibana Higuchi, Tong Kou Ju · 192 pages

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Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Vol. 1

Ken Akamatsu · 208 pages

Ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield dreams of becoming a master wizard, but he's sent to teach English at an all-girls high school instead. The students are delighted with their new teacher--except for Asuna. Sometimes Negi can't resist using magic and when Asuna discovers his secret, she sets out to make his life as miserable as possible.

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The Dreaming, Vol. 1

Queenie Chan · 175 pages

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Honestly Ben

Bill Konigsberg · 339 pages

Ben Carver returns for the spring semester at the exclusive Natick School in Massachusetts determined to put his relationship with Rafe Goldberg behind him and concentrate on his grades and the award that will mean a full scholarship--but Rafe is still there, there is a girl named Hannah whom he meets in the library, and behind it all is his relationship with his distant, but demanding father.

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After School Nightmare, Volume 10

Setona Mizushiro · 200 pages

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Food Wars!, Vol. 11

Yuto Tsukuda, Yuki Morisaki · 181 pages

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This Is Where It Ends

Marieke Nijkamp · 304 pages

Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun. 10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve. 10:02 a.m. The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. 10:03 The auditorium doors won't open. 10:05 Someone starts shooting. Tol

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