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41) The parakeet
Author
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press/Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
147 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"An account in graphic novel format, based on the author's own experiences, of a boy coping with his mother's suffering from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, showing how mental illness can both tear families apart and reaffirm the bonds of love"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Akiko has finally achieved her dream of becoming a manga artist! She's almost ready to fully immerse herself in the wonderful world of shoujo when Hidaka-sensei approaches her. Just what does he want?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins. 'Be thankful', she was told; surely her life in Sweden...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans....
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
258 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Debut author Misty Wilson chronicles her seventh-grade experience as the only girl on her town's football team in this empowering graphic memoir about teamwork, friendship, crushes, and touchdowns"--
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Fantagraphics Books edition.
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In late 2004, Vivian Chong's life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber -- whose graphic autobiography, Dumb, chronicled her own disability -- to trace her journey out of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
[136] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing if she ever wants to reach her goal. Looking for an easy fix, she signs up for an art class, thinking all her problems will soon be solved. She's in for a surprise: her new instructor is a sword-wielding taskmaster who doesn't care about manga one bit. But maybe this unconventional art teacher is just what she needs...
48) The third person
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
904 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 2004, a shy woman named Emma sits in Toby's office. She wants to share this wonderful new book she's reading, but Toby, her therapist, is concerned with other things. Emma is transgender, and has sought out Toby for approval for hormone replacement therapy. Emma has shown up at the therapy sessions as an outgoing, confident young woman named Katina, and a depressed, submissive workaholic named Ed. She has little or no memory of her...
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
118 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bird perches on the cell window and offers a deal: 'You bring the pencil, and I will bring the stories,' stories of family, of community, of Gaza, of the West Bank, of Jerusalem, of Palestine. The two collect threads of memory and intergenerational trauma from ongoing settler-colonialism. Helping us to see that the prison is much larger than a building, far wider than a cell; it stretches through towns and villages, past military checkpoints and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
51) Spinning
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
395 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good. She won. And she hated it. For ten years, figure skating...
Author
Series
Monstrous volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Bullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode.
"Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A graphic memoir for teens about the author's efforts to overcome her social anxiety by learning improv comedy. Alex has crippling social anxiety. All day long, she is trapped in a web of negative thoughts and paralyzing fear. To pull herself free of this endless cycle, Alex does something truly terrifying: she signs up for an improv comedy class. By forcing herself to play silly games and act out ridiculous scenes, Alex confronts the unbearable...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emilia first met Charlotte in their school locker room in the late '90s. They quickly bonded over indie music, feminist literature, a love of purple, and a shared sense of outsiderness. Their joyful, intense friendship evolved through the years--until Charlotte died in 2018 following a long struggle with depression. Now, Emilia assembles her memories into a graphic memoir reflecting on the bond they shared and the ways it shaped them. As they pass...
56) Dreamer
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
118 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence he often experienced both on and off the ice. This is...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Muhammad Najem was only eight years old when the war in Syria began. He was thirteen when his beloved Baba, his father, was killed in a bombing while praying. By fifteen, Muhammad didn't want to hide anymore--he wanted to act. He was determined to reveal what families like his were enduring in Syria: bombings by their own government and days hiding in dark underground shelters. Armed with the camera on his phone and the support of his family, he...
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood. In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he tries in vain to fit in and eventually turns to alcohol to...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A funny graphic memoir that takes us through the early diaries of Merrill Markoe (the original head writer for the The David Letterman Show) and captures the difficulties of growing up and, ultimately, finding out that a smart mouth is a perfectly fine thing to have."--
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
133 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An emotional new diary manga about critical illness from award-winning creator Nagata Kabi. Nagata Kabi's downward spiral is getting out of control, and she can't stop drinking to soothe the ache of reality. After suffering from unbearable stomach pains, she goes to a clinic, where she is diagnosed with pancreatitis - and is immediately hospitalized. A new chapter unfolds in Nagata Kabi's life as she struggles to find her way back to reality and...
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