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Alagbé, Yvan Brown, Don Folman, Ari Kinoshita, Itaru Maddox, Jake Pham, Thien TenNapel, Doug Watts, Irene NBrown, Don
Summary: Presents a graphic account of the events of Syrian refugees' attempt to escape the horrors of their country's civil war in search of a better tomorrow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 956.91 BROMaddox, Jake
Summary: Recently resettled in America, Adnan Zakaria is a Syrian refugee whose skateboarding ability is the only thing that allows him to make a connection with the other kids in his neighborhood--but when his skateboard disappears and turns up in the possession of a local troublemaker Adnan will have to out-skate his foe in order to win it back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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Summary: "Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 PHAAlagbé, Yvan
Summary: "Yvan Alagbé one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. In the stories gathered in Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures--drawn between 1994 and 2011, and never before available in English--he uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape. It is both an extraordinary experiment in visual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review of Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALAFolman, Ari
Summary: "In Amsterdam, a year from today, a terrible thunderstorm rages over the city. It is the middle of the night at the Anne Frank House, a magnificent thunderbolt hits the house and shatters the protective glass in which the most famous diary in human history is displayed. Magically, Kitty, Anne's imaginary friend, comes to life. At first, Kitty does not know that 75 years have passed--after all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FOLTenNapel, Doug
Summary: When the evil Lizzarks make an all-out assault on Amphibopolis, Herk must seek the help of the Megasloth to save the city and his adopted family, while his sister Sissy discovers the dark truth about their long-lost brother, Zerk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TENWatts, Irene N
Summary: Young Marianne escapes Nazi Germany to the safety of Britain, but she does not speak English, she is not welcome in her sponsors' home, and she misses her mother terribly, which all add up to a difficult struggle to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tradewind Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WATTenNapel, Doug
Summary: Pursued by the Lizzarks who killed his parents and destroyed his amphibious community of Nnewtown, Herk the Nnewt encounters several characters who assist him on his journey as he confronts the Snake Lord and reclaims his stolen legs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2015
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3 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TENKinoshita, Itaru
Summary: "WHAT REALLY HAPPENED... When dinosaurs were found to have survived to modern times, people were enthralled-until a catastrophic incident drove dino-mania to extinction. When Kaidou, who was there to witness it, opens up about what happened, the rookie keeper Suma Suzume learns more about the disaster-and her coworker-than she ever expected. But that's far from the only thing on her mind....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2023