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Summary: "A poignant bilingual YA graphic memoir about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who crosses the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey is filled with both heartbreak and hope. Will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GERLewis, John
Summary: This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEW1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW