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Author and Artist: Tomomi Mizuna
Publisher: Udon Kids / Udon Entertainment
Compare prices for The Big Adventures of Majoko Vol. 1

Majoko is a witch who's feeling a bit bored, so she hatches a plan: she creates a magic diary that she throws into the human world. The first person who finds Majoko's diary will be her partner for some magical adventures. So when Nana, an ordinary tween girl finds this magic book, she's immediately swept up in Majoko's world, where almost anything can happen.

Author and Artist: Asuka Izumi
Publisher: CMX Manga
Compare prices for The Lizard Prince Vol. 1

Princess Canary finds out that she's been betrothed to Prince Heath of the neighboring kingdom of Gazaria. Canary's not crazy about the idea, and neither is Prince Heath. So Prince Heath convinces his brother Sienna to take his place on a date with Canary to get her to turn down the engagement. To their surprise, Canary and Sienna hit it off – but happily ever after isn't going to be easy because Sienna is cursed to turn into a lizard, usually at very inconvenient times.

Author: Clint Bickham
Artists: rem, Jared Hodges, Lindsay Cibos, Sonia Leong
Publisher: TokyoPop
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NHK-TV's fuzzy brown mascot gets into mischief galore in this full-color collection of all-new comic stories. With his forest friends looking out for him, Domo tries his hand at catching stag beetles, building a soap box racer, and becoming a video game champion. He doesn't always get it right, but somehow Domo makes things work in his own Domo way!

Author and Artist: Kenji Sonishi
Publisher: VIZ Kids / VIZ Media
Compare prices for Leave It To PET Vol. 1

PET is a pint-sized, self-proclaimed "super robot" made from a recycled plastic bottle. His mission? To help 9-year old Noboru Yamada to repay him for recycling. Trouble is, PET's misfiring mecha gadgets and half-hearted efforts to help usually ends up creating headaches galore for poor Noburu. And to make things worse, PET has other recycled robot pals who are just as inept and destructive as he is.

Author and Artist: Moyamu Fujino
Publisher: TokyoPop
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Neko Fukuta flunked almost all of her high school entrance exams and is left to attend the only school that would accept her, Morimori High. But Morimori is filled with special students: they're all animals who can take on human form.

Author and Artist: Hitoshi Shioya
Publisher: VIZ Kids / VIZ Media
Compare prices for Dinosaur Hour Vol. 1

Everyone thinks that dinosaurs became extinct because of a giant meteor or some other natural disaster. But what if it was because of something simpler? What if the dinosaurs died out because they were just too stupid to live? With a mix of science fact and fun, Dinosaur Hour cracks Jurassic jokes while introducing readers to a variety of prehistoric critters.

Author and Artist: Sayuri Tatsuyama
Publisher: VIZ Kids / VIZ Media
Compare prices for Happy Happy Clover Vol. 1

Clover is an outgoing girl bunny who goes to school, plays games with her friends and gets into mischief. With her BFF Mallow, a sweet and shy lop-eared bunny, Clover and the rest of her forest friends learn about the ways of the forest, dream of adventures, get into a few messes, and occasionally save the day too.

Author and Artist: Mera Hakamada
Publisher: Udon Kids / Udon Entertainment
Compare prices for Fairy Idol Kanon Vol. 1

Kanon is a good-natured girl who loves to sing. While her classmate Marika is a more polished singer, Kanon has the ability make listeners happy when they hear her sing. Encouraged to sing by a fairy’s plea, Kanon joins forces with haughty Marika and shy Kodama to use the power of their singing to save a fairy kingdom from a dire energy shortage. But the road to pop stardom won't be easy, when the trio's chief rival has some dark magic on her side.

Author and Artist: Shunshin Maeda
Publisher: Udon Kids / Udon Entertainment
Compare prices for Ninja Baseball Kyuma Vol. 1

Kyuma is a young ninja-in-training who gets an unusual mission: he must trade in his sword and shuriken for a bat and glove to save the Moonstar baseball team from its losing streak. While he can run, catch and hit with astonishing strength and speed, Kyuma has one problem: he doesn’t understand what baseball is, much less how to play the sport.

Authors: Mitsuhisa Tamura and Kazuhiro Fujita
Artist: Mitsuhisa Tamura
Publisher: VIZ Kids / VIZ Media
Compare prices for BakeGyamon Vol. 1

Sanshiro craves excitement and adventures, but there isn't much to be found on his island home. So when a mysterious stranger invites him to play a game, Sanshiro's too curious to turn him down. He then finds himself in a backwards land to play a game called BakéGyamon, where he must use his mastery of his assigned monster to compete against other kids with pet monsters. But how far can Sanshiro get with a pair of mudballs as his partners?