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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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High school star athlete Colin Kaepernick is at a crossroads in life. Heavily scouted by colleges and MLB as a baseball pitcher, he has a bright future ahead of him as a highly touted prospect. Everyone from his parents to his teachers and coaches are in agreement on his future. Colin feels differently. Colin isn't excited about baseball. In the words of five-time all-star MLB player Adam Jones, "Baseball is a white man's game." Colin looks up to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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ALA Great Graphic Novels for Adults - 2022
ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2023
ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Young Adults
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ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2023
ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Young Adults
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"Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining--new school, new you, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of micro-aggressors to future Neo-Nazis. Mixed race, acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated in a painted palette of warmy, earthy tones, it is a quiet book...
84) Layers: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Pénélope Bagieu never thought she'd create a graphic memoir. But when she dusted off her old diaries (no, really this book is based on her actual diaries!), she found cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking stories begging to be drawn. In Layers, Bagieu reflects on her childhood and teen years with her characteristic wit and unflinching honesty. The result is fifteen short stories about friendship, love, grief, and those awkward first steps...
85) Sylvie
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When a teacher asks Sylvie's class what they want to be when they grow up, Sylvie is the only one without an answer. In this funny, perceptive graphic memoir, a girl who works very hard to be the perfect student, daughter, and friend must figure out who she is to the least demanding person in her life: herself."--Book jacket flap.
86) Nervosa
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Gold's memoir about disordered eating, chronic illness, and a profound relationship with hope."--
87) ¡Sonríe!
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Raina is about to start sixth grade and all she wants to be is a normal girl. One night, however, after a scouts' meeting, she trips, falls, and seriously injures her two front teeth. She must then endure a whole series of dental operations and apparatuses, even a retainer with fake teeth! On top of that, she also has to deal with an earthquake, boy trouble, and friends who turn out to be not what they seem. Raina va a sexto y su único deseo es ser...
88) Chunky
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Graphic Novels ALSC 2022 (6-8)
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Jewish American Heritage - Tweens
Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading List 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Jewish American Heritage - Tweens
Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading List 2023
Description
"In this full-color middle grade graphic memoir for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft, 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"--Publisher marketing.
90) Just pretend
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Language
English
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"Tori makes up stories all of the time, so she has never lived in just one world. Those stories might just save her when her world seems to crumble"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Young Adults
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Maverick Graphic Novels 2024 (Gr. 6-12)
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2024 (YA Gr. 9+)
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Maverick Graphic Novels 2024 (Gr. 6-12)
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2024 (YA Gr. 9+)
Description
"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 new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as...
92) Tiny dancer
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Siena Cherson Siegel dreamed of being a ballerina. Her love of movement and dedication to the craft earned her a spot at the School of American Ballet. [She's] worked hard her whole life to be a professional ballet dancer, then makes the difficult decision to quit dancing and tries to figure out what comes next. But what do you do when you have spent your entire life working toward a goal, having that shape your identity, and then decide it's time...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In Big Apple Diaries, a heartfelt diary-style graphic memoir by Alyssa Bermudez, a young New Yorker doodles her way through middle school--until the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack leaves her wondering if she can ever be a kid again. It's the year 2000 in New York City. For 12-year old Alyssa, this means splitting time between her Puerto Rican dad's apartment in Manhattan and her white mom's new place in Queens, navigating the trials and tribulations...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2023
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Clean Reads for Young Adults
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Clean Reads for Young Adults
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Description
"After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as foreign as Marsat least until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name. In Messy Roots, Laura illustrates her coming-of-age as the girl who simply wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why girls make her heart flutter."--Provided by publisher.
96) Short and skinny
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"As a middle schooler, Mark finds himself on the smaller side of the physical spectrum--being short AND skinny has really wreaked havoc on his confidence. So to end his bullying woes and get the girl--or at least the confidence to talk to the girl--he starts to explore bulking up by way of the miracle cures in the backs of his comics. But his obsession with beefing up is soon derailed by a new obsession: Star Wars, the hottest thing to hit the summer...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing... until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an...
98) Button pusher
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Back to School - Tween
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Maverick Graphic Novels 2023 (Gr. 6-12)
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Maverick Graphic Novels 2023 (Gr. 6-12)
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2023 (Gr. 6-8)
Description
Tyler's brain is different. Unlike his friends, he has a hard time paying attention in class. He acts out in goofy, over-the-top ways. Sometimes, he even does dangerous things--like cut up a bus seat with a pocketknife or hang out of an attic window. To the adults in his life, Tyler seems like a troublemaker. But he knows that he's not. Tyler is curious and creative. He's the best artist in his grade, and when he can focus, he gets great grades. He...
99) Cub
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Author and artist Cindy Copeland comes of age, discovers new talents, and finds her voice as a cub reporter at her local newspaper during the Watergate era"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation--following her mother's announcement that she's getting married--Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new...
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