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Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga) Part 1 Volume 1

By Miya Kazuki
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Ascendance of a Bookworm follows the journey of a college girl who, after an untimely death, is reborn as Myne, a frail five-year-old in a world where books are scarce and literacy is rare. Determined to live among books, she embarks on a quest to create them herself, aiming to become a librarian in a society that has almost no access to literature.
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Age range 13+ This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them! Dive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms!

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A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

Myne resolves herself: If there aren't any books, she'll just have to make them! Her goal is to become a librarian. This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them!

Dive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms with Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga) Part 1 Volume 1.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781718372504

Publisher: J-Novel Club

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 October 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: J-Novel Club

Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 172g

Pages: 164

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About the Author

Miya Kazuki is a Japanese author best known for the series Ascendance of a Bookworm. Suzuka is the manga adaptation artist for Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 1.

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