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Must Read Graphic Novels: Teen Nonfiction & Biographies
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Dragon hoops : From Small Steps to Great Leaps
by Gene Luen Yang
An introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves. By the award-winning author of American Born Chinese. Illustrations.
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Fights : one boy's triumph over violence
by Joel Christian Gill
"The visceral and deeply affecting memoir, in graphic format, 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. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everyone and everything around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into"
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Banned book club
by Hyun Sook Kim
Documents the gripping true story of the South Korean authors student days under the authoritarian regime of the early 1980s, describing how she defied state censorship laws by joining an underground banned book club to read great works of literature. Original. Illustrations.
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Across the tracks / : Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre
by Alverne Ball
"Across the Tracks introduces the reader to the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented time of prosperity for Black Americans. We learn about Greenwood and why it is essential to remember the great achievements of the community as well as the tragedy which nearly erased it. However, Ball is careful to recount the eventual recovery of Greenwood. With additional supplementary materials including a detailed preface, timeline, and historical essay, Across the Tracks offers a thorough examination of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Black Wall Street. "
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Almost American Girl
by Robin Ha
Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class.
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Hey, kiddo
by Jarrett Krosoczka
A powerful graphic memoir by the award-winning author of Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute traces the author's unconventional coming of age with a drug-addict mother, an absent father and two lovingly opinionated grandparents
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Queer as all get out : 10 people who've inspired me
by Shelby Criswell
"The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South, revealing their own personal struggle for acceptance and how they were inspired by these historical LGBTQIA+ people to live their own truth. Featuring biographies of Mary Jones, We'wha, Magnus Hirschfeld, Dr. Pauli Murray, Wilmer "Little Axe" M. Broadnax, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Carlett Brown, Nancy Cardenas, Ifti Nasim, and Simon Nkoli"
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In waves
by A. J Dungo
Delves into the origins and evolution of surfing by looking back at the sport's greatest heroes, while reflecting on the author's memories of his late partner, her battle with cancer, and their shared love of surfing
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The fire never goes out : a memoir in pictures
by ND Stevenson
The National Book Award finalist and creator of Nimona presents a collection of personal essays and mini-comics spanning eight years of the authors young-adult life to reveal the experiences and embarrassments that shaped her career. 150,000 first printing. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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Maus : a survivor's tale
by Art Spiegelman
A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America, in an omnibus edition of Spiegelman's two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller. 25,000 first printing.
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Tiny dancer
by Siena Cherson Siegel
Suffering from the injuries and doubt that are taking a toll on her body, teenage ballerina Siena must look beyond the world of dance to figure out who she is without the thing that defines her and what comes next for her life. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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