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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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English
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Do you love networking to advance your career? Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared? Ugh. Please go away. These casually drawn, perfectly on-point comics by the hugely popular young Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Andersen are for the rest of us. They document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, and dreaming all day of getting...
2) Guts
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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AANHPI Heritage Month - Nonfiction
AANHPI Heritage Month for Teens
All Together Now - Ages 19+
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All Together Now - Ages 19+
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A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new...
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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"With characteristic wit and charm, Sarah Andersen's third collection of comics and illustrated personal essays offers a survival guide for frantic modern life: from the importance of avoiding morning people, to Internet troll defense 101, to the not-so-life-changing futility of tidying up. But when all else fails and the world around you is collapsing, make a hot chocolate, count the days until Halloween, and snuggle up next to your furry beacon...
5) Sisters
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all. Raina...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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The creator of "Hyperbole and a Half" presents a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and deceptively illustrated essays on topics ranging from childhood and very bad pets to grief, loneliness, and powerlessness in modern life.
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country—from the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream. “What a joy it is to read Malaka Gharib’s It Won’t Always Be Like This, to have your heart expertly broken and put back together within the space of a few panels, to have your wonder in the world restored...
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March volume 3
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From a childs-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals and insects rather than the unpredictable adults around him. Dandro perceptively details the effects of poverty and addiction on a family while maintaining a childs innocence for as long as he can....
10) March: Book one
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March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Graphic Novels by People of Color
Graphic Novels for Teens
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 8th - 12th grade
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Graphic Novels for Teens
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 8th - 12th grade
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John Lewis's autobiographical account of his lifelong battle for civil rights for all Americans.
11) El deafo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
12) Hey, kiddo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Banned Books Week
Books for Aspiring Readers
Graphic Novels for Teens
One World, Many Stories 9th - 12th
Books for Aspiring Readers
Graphic Novels for Teens
One World, Many Stories 9th - 12th
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Shares the author's upbringing in a family grappling with addiction and how he used art to survive.
"The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. 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...
13) Bad sister
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"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?"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"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. Mistynever shies away from a challenge, on or off the field. So when the boys tell her she can’t play football, there’s only one thing to do: join their team and show them what she’s got. But the training is rougher than she thought—and so...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"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 half-brothers have troubles, too. Following the author's young...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Excuse Me assembles more than 500 of her most loved cartoons from Instagram and The New Yorker over the past few years, in such distinctive chapters as: Love & Dating; Gender & Other Politics; Animals; Art & Myth-Making; Humanity; Time, Space, and How to Navigate Them; Strangeness, Shyness, Sadness; and Notes to Self.
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Hell-o-kitty! Master of Japanese horror manga Junji Ito presents a series of hissterical tales chronicling his real-life trials and tribulations of becoming a cat owner. Junji Ito, as J-kun, has recently built a new house and has invited his financee, A-ko, to live with him. Little did he know ... his blushing bride-to-be has some unexpected company in tow--Yon, a ghastly-looking family cat, and Mu, an adorable Norwegian forest cat. Despite being...
18) Chunky
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this full-color middle grade graphic memoir, Yehudi Mercado draws inspiration from his childhood struggle with his weight while finding friendship with his imaginary mascot, Chunky, as he navigates growing up in a working class Mexican-Jewish family"--
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