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A collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.
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Link and Hud volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Brothers Lincoln and Hudson Dupré go on imaginary adventures that often wreak havoc in the real world and conspire to undermine their newest babysitter.
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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English
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ALA Black Lives Matter, Black Literature Matters - Comics Reading List 2022
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
5) Ghost roast
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Fifteen-year-old Chelsea, daughter of a paranormal specialist, risks her hard-won popularity and more when she's drawn into a paranormal romance after discovering her own ability to communicate with ghosts."--
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[2017]
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English
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ALA Black Lives Matter, Black Literature Matters - Comics Reading List 2022
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
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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.
7) Blackward
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2023.
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English
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"Tired of feeling like you don't belong? Join the club. It's called the Section. You'd think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much easier to come by for nerdy, queer punks. But when four longtime, bookish BFFs--Lika, Amor, Lala, and Tony--can't find what they need, they take matters into their own hands and create a space where they can be a hundred percent who they are: Black, queer, and weird. The group puts a call out for all...
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2019.
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English
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"When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes that the wizarding community is finally taking its first crucial steps toward inclusivity. Or is it? When Tom Token, the beneficiary of the school's "Magical Minority Initiative," begins uncovering weird clues and receiving creepy texts on his phone, he and his friend, Lindsay, stumble into a conspiracy that dates all...
9) Black
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[2017]
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English
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"In a world that already hates and fears them--what if only Black people had superpowers? After miraculously surviving being gunned down by police, a young man learns that he is part of the biggest lie in history. Now he must decide whether it's safer to keep it a secret or if the truth will set him free"--
10) New kid
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New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
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English
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Back to School, More Titles - Tween
National Hobby Month - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Tween Advisory Club: Favorite Books
National Hobby Month - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Tween Advisory Club: Favorite Books
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"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
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Follow the journey of two young adults, Joshua and Claire, each individually shaped by the day the sky went dark, but drawn to each other because of it. Coming of age in this new landscape, they will be forced to confront and challenge notions of identity, guilt, and survival as the darkness grows around them. When fear threatens to envelop all hope they have left, the two discover that love, family, and finding the true light in a world seemingly...
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Tristan Strong (graphic novels) volume 1
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2022.
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English
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Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.
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[2019]
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English
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Livewire finds herself face-to-face with a brand-new foe! Investigating the disappearance of a young psiot girl, Livewire stumbles upon OMEN's answer to the psiot "problem," a facility where young psiots are taken and taught to control their powers. Is this facility the safe haven Livewire's dreamed of or is there something more sinister to this sanctuary?
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2018.
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English
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Straight from Solo: A Star Wars Story swaggers a younger, smoother Lando Calrissian! Before his days in the Rebellion, before he ran Cloud City, even before he lost the Millennium Falcon, comes this tale of Lando's adventures and misadventures in search of love and money--leading right up to his appearance in "Solo!" Lando isn't one to stick his neck out...unless there are credits to be had. So when oppressed slaves in an Imperial droid junkyard need...
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2023.
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English
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"Few Black cartoonists have entered national syndication, and before Barbara Brandon-Croft, none of them were women. From 1989 to 2005, she brought Black womens perspectives to an international audience with her trailblazing comic strip Where Im Coming From. From diets to day care to debt to dreaded encounters with everyday racism, no issue is off-limits. This remarkable and unapologetically funny career retrospective holds a mirror up to the ways...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Mentor. Savior. Enemy of the State. Seeking to protect other vulnerable super-powered psiots like herself, Livewire plunged the United States into a nationwide blackout with her technopathic abilities, causing untold devastation. After choosing the few over the many, she must now outrun the government she served - and those she once called allies. With the whole world hunting her, what kind of hero will Livewire be ... or will she be one at all?"--Page...
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2017.
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English
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"A new Iron Age begins! From the violent streets of Chicago, a new armored hero rises! Clad in her very own Iron Man armor, Riri Williams is ready to show the world what she can do as the self-made hero of tomorrow. Her technology just might change the face of the Marvel Universe forever...if she survives the experience. But is she ready for all the problems that come with stepping into Iron Man's jet boots? Where's a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist...
18) Class act
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New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
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English
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"Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying You have to work twice as hard to be just as good. His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isnt afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted? To make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids. He wants to pretend...
20) Monster mayhem
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Science-obsessed Zoe finds herself trapped in one of her favorite monster movies and needs to invent her way out of a disaster while also saving the monster who has become her friend"--|cProvided by publisher.
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