TY  - BOOK
AU  - Galadima,Issaka
AU  - Jones,Frederick L.
TI  - Clock striker: "I'm Gonna Be a Smith!"
SN  - 9780760381571
AV  - PN6748.C56 G35 2023
U1  - 741.5/944 23/eng/20231120
PY  - 2023///]-
CY  - Beverly, MA
PB  - Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quatro Group
KW  - Women engineers
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Apprentices
KW  - Technology
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Technologie
KW  - fast
KW  - adventure story comics
KW  - aat
KW  - manga (comic books)
KW  - Action and adventure comics
KW  - Comics (Graphic works)
KW  - Graphic novels
KW  - Manga
KW  - Science fiction comics
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Mangas
N1  - "Manga-inspired comics"--Page 4 of cover; Vol. 1. "I'm gonna be a smith!" --; T for Teen, recommended for ages 13+. Contains action scenes and mild profanitiy
N2  - Clock Striker follows Shonen manga's first Black female lead hero, Cast, in her quest to become a member of the SMITHS, the legendary warrior engineers. Cast dreams of being a SMITH, and though she's rather handy with her tools, no one in her small town ever realizes their dreams. Besides, these legendary warrior engineers haven't been seen in years and were never known for having female members. Fortunately, Cast meets one surviving member named Ms. Philomena Clock, who agrees to take her on as her apprentice, or striker. Now Cast is thrust into one deadly adventure after another! From cybernetic desperadoes to technology thieves and more, Cast has to use her mind and her remodeled robotics-lab prosthetic hand, which offers unfathomable offensive power in the form of scientific experiments. Need lightning? Cast can generate it from her hand! Cast's mentor seeks to uncover an ominous mystery that explains what happened to the SMITHS and shines a light on a hidden power that may be within Cast herself. Can Cast become a new member of the SMITHS? More importantly, can Cast survive the process to become a SMITH?
ER  -