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Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens
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Great Graphic Novels for Teens is a list of recommended graphic novels and illustrated nonfiction for those ages 12-18, prepared yearly by the Young Adult Library Services Association.
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Brave
by Svetlana Chmakova
Although shy Jensen daydreams about being a hero, the reality of his school life is very different, but when two school newpapers writers begin to put him in their stories, he discovers he may have to find real solutions for his problems
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Black Hammer : Secret Origins
by Jeff Lemire
"Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City--Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien--now lead simple lives in anidyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape! But as they employ all of their super abilities to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure!"
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I am Alfonso Jones
by Tony Medina
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store
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Jonesy. Volume three
by Sam Humphries
Jonesy, a teenager with the super power of love, tries to give up the match-making life, but when a mysterious stranger comes to town, she may be forced to use her powers
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Octavia Butler's Kindred : A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Damian Duffy
Inexplicably pulled back in time to the antebellum South, a contemporary Black woman, raised in the age of Civil Rights and Black Power, must confront the harsh realities of Black history in America
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Lighter than My Shadow
by Katie Green
A graphic memoir in tribute to the challenges of eating disorders, abuse and recovery follows the experiences of a picky eater whose silent starvation-protests ultimately put her life at risk.
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My Brother's Husband 1
by Gengoroh Tagame
When a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan—who declares himself the widower of Yaichi’s estranged gay twin, Ryoji—arrives on the doorstep of Yaichi's family in Japan, hoping to explore Ryoji's past, the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in, changing their lives in the process.
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Pashmina
by Nidhi Chanani
When Priyanka finds a mysterious pashmina in her house, she is transported to an India which may or may not be real, and goes in search of the reason why her mother left her homeland and the father she has never met
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Spill Zone
by Scott Westerfeld
When a disaster destroys her city, ends her parents' lives and leaves her sister badly scarred, Addison earns money by taking photographs of the devastation for high-paying art collectors, including an eccentric patron who offers a million dollars for a life-risking image.
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