Case, Jonathan
Summary: In the twenty-second century, a sun shift has made it impossible for mammals to survive in the daylight, and ten-year-old Elvie and her caretaker, Flora, are studying the migration route of monarch butterflies along what used to be the western coast of the United States, hoping that something in the butterflies wing scales can be used to protect people from the sun and save humanity from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC CASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC CAS (Graphic Novel)Anta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTGerster, Michelle
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 GERSummary: "Dig into folklore from across South America with this collection of comic reimaginations and retellings. The sixth volume of the Cautionary Fables and Fairytales series takes you across the continent -- from Peru, Chile, Columbia, and more!" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LIZChandler, Matt
Summary: "The true story of Lt. Robert Grimes running for his life as he evades being captured by Nazi soldiers. Robert Grimes escapes danger with help from the Comet Line, a resistance group that rescued Allied soldiers during WWII"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 CHAHowell, Izzi
Summary: A graphic nonfiction volume that describes Earth's landforms and geography of its continents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Moonshot, the Indigenous Comics Collection Volume 3 brings you even more original stories, graphic novels and comics written by Indigenous authors from across North America. The stories in Moonshot 3 pay homage to Indigenous futurisms, which weaves in traditional knowledge and culture with futuristic ideas and settings where some stories are sci-fi based, some appear in the past, and some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avani, an imprint of Inhabit Education Books Inc. 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling, from dozens of creators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avani, an imprint of Inhabit Education Books Inc. 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling, from dozens of creators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avani, an imprint of Inhabit Education Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 MOOFoster, Bob
Summary: John Smith, an English soldier, and Pocahontas, the daughter of an Algonquin chief, fall in love when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISBenson, Koni
Summary: Crossroads: I Live Where I Like is a graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the struggle for land, housing, and public services in Cape Town, South Africa, over the last fifty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 BENConyngham, Richard
Summary: "All rise: resistance and rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts--each of which is illustrated by a different South African artist--All Rise shares the long-forgotten struggles of ordinary, working-class women and men who defended the disempowered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jacana Media 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 968.73 CONLoewen, James W.
Summary: "A graphic adaptation of the bestselling book about what most American history textbooks get wrong"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 973 LOEKing, Thomas
Summary: A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC KINGillen, Kieron
Summary: They say you can never go home. For the Young Avengers, that's not true. They can go home--it's just that if they do, the universe may end. Better not go home then, eh? (Wait, what are you doing, Young Avengers? You've decided to go home?!?) The team takes on the gig to save reality, but is Kate Bishop an enemy in waiting? Is this the last we see of the loveable/ strangle-able Kid Loki?.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide Inc. 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 YOUMyer, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Loup Garrou, trickster rabbits, and spirits with names that can't be spoken--the plains and forests of North America are alive with characters like these, all waiting to meet you in this collection of folklore retold in comics! This fifth volume of the "Cautionary Fables and Fairytales" anthology series features updated takes on ancient stories from tribes spanning the continent, bursting with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC WOMJones, Stephen Graham
Summary: "The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 EARBell, 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 BELTerry, Jim
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 TERKing, Thomas
Summary: A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KINKrug, Nora
Summary: "A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRUGill, Joel Christian
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 GILSmoker, M. L. (Mandy L.)
Summary: "If Aiyana hears one more traditional Lakota story, she'll scream! More interested in her social media presence than her Native American heritage, Aiyana is shocked when she suddenly finds herself in a magical world-with no cell coverage! Pursued by the trickster Raven, Aiyana struggles to get back home, but is helped by friends and allies she meets along the way. Her dangerous journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curiosity Books, an imprint of Curiosity Ink Media, LLC 2022