The cardboard kingdom

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The work The cardboard kingdom represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The cardboard kingdom

Statement of responsibility

by Chad Sell ; [with contributions by Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Manuel Betancourt, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Cloud Jacobs, Michael Cole, and Barbara Perez Marquez]

Creator

• trueSell, Chad

Contributor

• Jacobs, Cloud
• Schenkel, Katie
• Marquez, Barbara Perez
• DeMeo, David
• Cole, Michael
• Alliger, Vid
• Fuller, Jay
• Muldoon, Molly, 1987-
• Betancourt, Manuel, (Writer)

Artist

• trueSell, Chad

Author

• Jacobs, Cloud
• Marquez, Barbara Perez
• trueSell, Chad
• Schenkel, Katie
• Muldoon, Molly, 1987-
• Alliger, Vid
• Betancourt, Manuel, (Writer)
• Cole, Michael
• DeMeo, David
• Fuller, Jay

Subject

• Costume
• Costume -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Costume -- Fiction
• Costume -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• trueFriendship
• Graphic novel
• Graphic novels
• Graphic novels
• trueGraphic novels
• Graphic novels
• Imagination
• Imagination -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Imagination -- Fiction
• Imagination -- Juvenile fiction
• trueImagination in children
• Juvenile works
• truePlay
• truePretending
• trueSummer
• Comic books, strips, etc
• trueCardboard crafts
• Adventure graphic novels
• Adventure fiction
• Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
• Action and adventure comics
• Action and adventure comics

Genre

• Adventure fiction
• Graphic novel
• Fiction
• trueComic books, strips, etc
• Adventure graphic novels
• Graphic novels
• Juvenile works
• Action and adventure comics
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Follows the adventures of a group of neighborhood children who create costumes from cardboard and use their imagination in adventures with knights, robots, and monsters

Writing style

• trueAttention-grabbing

Character

• trueBelievable
• trueCulturally diverse
• trueLikeable

Illustration

• trueColorful

Award

• Amelia Bloomer List, 2019.
• Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award (Wisconsin), 2019.
• Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Fiction (Grades 6-8), 2020.
• Notable Books for a Global Society, 2019
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2018.
• Surrey Schools' Book of the Year Award (British Columbia), 2020.

Awards note

• Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018
• NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children Recommended Book, 2019
• New York Public Library Best Books for Kids, 2018
• Rainbow Book List, 2019
• School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018
• Texas Bluebonnet 2019-2020

Cataloging source

JQR

Dewey number

741.5/973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN6727.S446

LC item number

C37 2018

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 7

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Reading level

2.4

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

juvenile