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Cartoonists United States Biography Comic books, strips, etc Cartoons and comics Coming of age Coming of age Comic books, strips, etc Coming out (Sexual orientation) Comic books, strips, etc Graphic novels Mothers and daughters Comic books, strips, etc Racism United States Women cartoonistsKrosoczka, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBSpooner, 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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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SPOSantat, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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3 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 921 SANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction SantatBell, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BELL, DARRIN BELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BELL BELHa, Robin
Summary: "A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray/Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 ROSMercado, Yehudi
Summary: "In Yehudi Mercado's full-color middle grade graphic memoir sequel to Chunky, Hudi and his imaginary friend, Chunky, head to Jewish summer camp, where the dynamic duo meet a new friend who can see Chunky, too, and get mixed up in a prank war. This series is perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft. Hudi finally embraced his love of art and comedy, but his class clown antics keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 GILKrosoczka, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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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 KROHogg, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.7 HOGKurzweil, 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 KURAwada, Dounya
Summary: "Dounya Awada is a 24-year-old, devout Muslim, happy, healthy, and very much alive. But just a few years before, she nearly starved to death. Her struggle began when she was six years old. Little Dounya wanted nothing less than to be perfect, like her mother. She pushed herself hard every day, excelling in schoolwork and at home. She had to be the cutest, prettiest, smartest girl in the room....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AWAErvick, Kelcey
Summary: "A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl's life and changed women's history forever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 ERVICK, KELCEY ERVWilson, Misty
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILDe la Cruz, Sharon Lee
Summary: "In this delightfully compelling full-color graphic memoir, the author shares her process of undoing the effects of a patriarchal, colonial society on her self-image, her sexuality, and her concept of freedom. Reflecting on the ways in which oppression was the cause for her late bloom into queerness, we are invited to discover people and things in the author's life that helped shape and inform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DE LGlidden, Sarah
Summary: Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends--reporters and founders of a journalism non-profit--as they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and, specifically, the war's refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former Marine whose past service in Iraq adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint, both to the people they come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 GLISuggs, Christine
Summary: "In this memoir, Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, as Christine embraces and rebels against their heritage and finds a sense of belonging"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 SUGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SUGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SUGThrash, Maggie
Summary: "A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change it all back. She's trapped in a dark depression and flunking eleventh grade, befuddling her patrician mother while going unnoticed by her father, a workaholic federal judge. The only thing Maggie cares about is her cat, Tommi--who then disappears somewhere in the walls of her cavernous house. So her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 THRKurzweil, Amy
Summary: A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. How do we relate to--and hold--our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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Summary: "For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a poignant, stirring graphic memoir—both heartbreaking and darkly funny—that perfectly captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis" -
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2024
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Summary: "Meet Charise. She's energetic, helpful, a model pet owner and full of inventions. But she's also a bad sister. When she goes too far and breaks little brother Daniel's tooth, can she redeem herself? Is an accident really an accident if you could have stopped it? But most importantly... What does it mean to be a good sister?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021
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Summary: "In a collection of personal comics that span eight years of her young adult life, author-illustrator Noelle Stevenson charts the highs and lows of being a creative human in the world."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2020