CBBC: The Confessional, The Great British Bump-Off, Freestyle: A Graphic Novel

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Title: The Confessional
Creators: Paige Hender
Page Count: 200
Publication Year: 2025
Genre: Fantasy, Vampire Horror

From Goodreads:
New Orleans, 1922. Cora Velasquez lives with her sister and her own haunted memories in a speakeasy run by a vampire coven. Unable to bear the weight of her damned soul, she turns to Father Orville Thibodeaux, a charismatic priest and the object of her hidden desires. Their veiled courtship becomes deadly serious when he discovers her nature, and proposes a way to both slake her thirst and save her soul. So begins the charged dance between an all-powerful but unsure young woman, and the mortal man who claims to hold her fate in his hand.

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Title: The Great British Bump-Off
Creators: John Allison, Max Sarin
Page Count: 104
Publication Year: 2025
Genre: Humor, Crime, Mystery

From Goodreads:
When she enters her country’s most beloved baking competition, Shauna Wickle’s goal is to delight the judges, charm the nation, and make a few friends along the way. But when a fellow contestant is poisoned, it falls to her to apprehend the culprit while avoiding premature elimination from the UK Bakery Tent…and being the poisoner’s next victim!

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https://www.hoopladigital.com/comic/the-great-british-bump-off-john-allison/16568437

Title: Freestyle
Creators: Gale Galligan
Page Count: 272
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: Children/Middle Grade, Sports

From Goodreads:
Cory's dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It's the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate ways to high schools all over New York City, so they have to make it count! The group starts to have problems as their crew captain gets increasingly intense about nailing the routine, and things go from bad to worse when Cory's parents ground him for not taking his grades seriously. He gets stuck with a new tutor, Sunna, who he dismisses as a boring nerd… until he catches her secretly practicing cool yo-yo tricks. Cory wants to learn the art of yo-yo, and as his friendship with Sunna grows, he ends up missing practice and bailing on his crew -- and they are not happy about it. With mounting pressure coming from all sides, how is Cory supposed to balance the expectations of his parents, school, dance, and his new friend?

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