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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction KrosoczkaCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KROCopies 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 KROSpooner, James
Summary: "Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The few Black kids here seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of microaggressors to future neo-Nazis. Mixed-race and acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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Summary: "How do you know if you're ready to have a baby? How do you know if you might be pregnant? And how do you deal with peeing all the time and being hungry all the time and fielding well-meaning but kind of insulting advice and finding a doula and being dropped by your old friends and learning why it's called mom brain and not dad brain and spending half your life on hold with your insurance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FINKurzweil, Amy
Summary: "Flying couch tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy Kurzweil weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother, a psychologist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. The voices and histories of these wise, hilarious, and very different women create a portrait...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult/Black Balloon 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 KURVan Sciver, Noah
Summary: "Noah Van Sciver is haunted by the house at 133 ____ Street, or as his brothers rechristened it "One Dirty Tree." This sprawling dilapidated New Jersey house was his first home and the site of formative experiences. Growing up in a big, poor, Mormon family--surrounded by comic-books, eight siblings, bathtubs full of dirty dishes--Noah's childhood exerts a powerful force on his present day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Uncivilized Books 2018
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Summary: "Mike Hawthorne's mother is left alone to raise her son in New York City, a city that torments them both with its unforgiving nature. But when Mike falls victim to an old world Santeria death curse, a haunting sign from the old country of something his mother could never truly escape --she begins a series of events that drive him away both physically and emotionally. For the first time ever,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HAWWertz, Julia
Summary: "Celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WERTZ, JULIA WERMontague, Elizabeth
Summary: "A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir by one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker, at the age of 22"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022