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Feder, Tyler

Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FED

Baptiste, Tracey

Summary: "Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BAP

Krosoczka, Jarrett

Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Bell, Cece

Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BEL

Krosoczka, Jarrett

Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R Krosoczka

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KRO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KRO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC KRO

Cooke, Pan

Summary: "A memoir of living with OCD before and after diagnosis"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2024

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Louis, Rick

Summary: "A graphic novel memoir recounting one parent's unique and wrenching journey caring for a child with a terminal diagnosis. When Rick and Emily's infant son Ronan is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an incurable neurological disorder, they are faced with the practical and emotional hurdles of parenting and loving their son--despite the shadow of inevitable loss. Rick Louis narrates this original...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LOU

Hogg, Lauren

Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.7 HOG

Bagieu, Pénélope

Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 Bagieu

Orsi, Tea

Summary: When Fawn befriends a huge and mysterious creature known as the NeverBeast, she, Tinker Bell, and their friends must rally the fairies and save the NeverBeast from capture.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ORS

Santat, Dan

Summary: "A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkward middle school years and the trip to Europe that changed his life. Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a good kid doesn't stop him from being bullied and feeling like he's invisible,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023

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3 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SAN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 921 SAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Santat

Rose, Amy

Summary: Survivor Amy Rose recounts her upbringing in an abusive cult which forbade independent learning, and how she discovered books in a secret library that opened up her world and inspired her to escape.--Publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 ROS

Bell, Cece

Summary: The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JB BELL BEL

Moss, Marissa

Summary: After returning home from a year abroad, Marissa's husband, Harvey was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for their children. This is a story about the redemptive power of terminal illness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.83 MOS

Russo, Marisabina

Summary: "It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves--but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood, and that her family members are Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, her childhood is thrown into turmoil. To make matters more complicated, her father is out of the picture, her mother is ambitious and demanding, and her older...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 RUS

Yang, Gene Luen

Summary: Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches especially the high school's basketball team, the Dragons.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 YAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YANG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Yang

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC YAN

Downs, Maggie

Summary: "Braver Than You Think is the life-affirming story of how Downs, newly married and established in her career as a journalist, quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother's. Over the course of one year backpacking through seventeen countries - visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, cannot visit herself -...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOW

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOWNS, MAGGIE DOW

Bell, Darrin

Summary: "This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BELL, DARRIN BEL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B BELL BEL

Walden, Tillie

Summary: 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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WAL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 WAL

Myer, Sarah

Summary: "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 moments--but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023

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Bernardin, Marc

Summary: "Muhammad Ali was one of the most photographed--and photogenic--figures in the history of sports. He demanded to be looked at, to be seen, and this epic captures his meteoric rise from Cassius Clay to Olympian and heavyweight champion of the world with stunning illustrations befitting his storied legacy. Bringing readers through major moments of his life--his first meeting with civil rights...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 ALI

Krosoczka, Jarrett

Summary: "When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Krosoczka

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KRO

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KRO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B KRO (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC KRO

Caplan, Bryan Douglas

Summary: "American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive laws argue the need to protect native citizens. But economist Bryan Caplan adds a new, compelling perspective to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 CAP

Higashimura, Akiko

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLA

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