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• Gamer Girls

  25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry

  Kenney, Mary,

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  "Discover the women behind the video games we love--from the iconic games they created, the genres they invented, the studios and companies they built--and how they changed the industry forever."

• Cat + Gamer. Volume 1

  Nadatani, Wataru,

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  After taking in a stray, Riko uses lessons drawn from video games to guide her in cat care, while her cute companion tries to understand her behavior through a cat's worldview.

• The Grandest Game

  Barnes, Jennifer Lynn,

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  Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune. With millions on the line, the seven players will do whatever it takes to win.

• Girl Code

  Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done

  Gonzales, Andrea,

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  Teen gamers share their experience at Girls Who Code and their rise to fame, plus a look at starts-ups, women in tech, and the power of coding.

• Ready Player One

  Cline, Ernest,

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  Immersing himself in a technological virtual utopia to escape an famine, poverty, and disease, Wade joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

• Slay

  Morris, Brittney,

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  An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Kiera enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide.

• It's All a Game

  the History of Board Games From Monopoly to Settlers of Catan

  Donovan, Tristan,

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  From the genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win.

• Walking in Two Worlds

  Kinew, Wab, 1981-

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  Playing in the MMORPG allows Bugz to be somewhere entirely different than who she is living on the Rez. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massive multiplayer video game universe.

• Twelfth Knight

  Follmuth, Alexene Farol,

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  Being student body VP is frustrating but thankfully Vi has her MMORPG escape where she pretends to be her brother. But this sanctuary is in trouble when injured football player and student body president Jack finds the game.

• Side Quest

  a Visual History of Roleplaying Games

  Sattin, Samuel,

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  A meld of history, fantasy, and memoir about tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs).

• Dating and Dragons

  Boyce, Kristy,

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  After starting at a new school, high school junior Quinn joins a D&D group to make friends but finds herself torn between her feelings for a charming yet annoying teammate and the drama stirred up by ex-friends from a previous campaign.

• Roll for Love

  England, M. K.,

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  Harper reconnects with her childhood best friend and first crush Ollie through a D&D campaign. Their growing romantic tension complicates Ollie's desire to keep her bisexuality private and Harper's struggle to stay true to herself.

• Mystery Royale

  Cavalancia, Kaitlyn,

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  16-year-old Mullory accepts an invitation to Mystery Royale, an illusion-infused game where participants must unravel clues to identify the murderer and inherit a billionaire's magic and fortune. But the game grows deadly.

• Game On!

  Video Game History From Pong and Pac-man to Mario, Minecraft, and More

  Hansen, Dustin,

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  The history and impact on pop culture of video games.

• The No-girlfriend Rule

  Randall, Christen,

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  Her boyfriend's "No Girlfriends at the Table" rule has forced Hollis to find her own tabletop RPG. Now she's part of an all-girls game and an in-game crush is edging towards IRL.

• Who We Are in Real Life

  Koops, Victoria,

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  When her family moved, Darcy misses her tabletop gaming friends and her boyfriend -- and is horrified by the homophobia her family faces in their new home. Then she meets kind, quiet Art, who invites her to join his Dungeons & Dragons game.

• Design a Game!

  Wolf, Bree (Bree D.),

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  What makes a game fun? What kinds of games are out there? How can designers turn an okay game into a great one?

• Tag, You're Dead

  Foxfield, Kathryn,

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  Seveneen-year-old social media influencer Anton starts a livestreamed and high-stakes game of Tag to find a new assistant, but four contestants have ulterior motives.

• Didn't See That Coming

  Sutanto, Jesse Q.,

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  Kiki plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other players. Even her online best friend, who plays under the username Sourdawg, doesn't know her true identity and she doesn't know his. It's not like they'll meet IRL.

• Bye Forever, I Guess

  Meadows, Jodi,

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  Eighth-grader Ingrid runs a blog anonymously and has online personas more popular than she is. When a wrong-number text offers her a chance at connection, Ingrid opens herself to the opportunity to make a real live friend.