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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
We all have that one friend from school -- the strange kid, the class freak, the guy whose antics amused, entertained, and maybe even alarmed us. The one who sticks in our heads even with the passing of the years. That classmate is invariably left behind when we graduate, vanishing into memory, filed away with our old yearbooks and other teenage mementoes. But every now and then we wonder, whatever happened to that friend? For one man who grew up...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...
Author
Series
Heartstopper volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Nick and Charlie are best friends. Nick knows Charlie's gay, and Charlie is sure that Nick isn't. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family ... and himself. Heartstopper is about friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Yumiko was born in Japan but has made a life in London, losing herself in its cosmopolitan bustle. She has a gallery show of her art, a good job, and a good guy she plans to marry. The culture she grew up in seems very far away-until her brother phones with the news that their father has died. Yumiko returns to Tokyo and finds herself immersed in the rituals of death while also plunged into the rituals of life-fish bars, bullet trains, pagodas-as...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Ink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"With just five dollars and a knapsack to her name, fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel is sent to live in Gotham City. She's not worried, though--she's battled a lot of hard situations as a kid, and knows her determination and outspokenness will carry her through life in the most dangerous city in the world. And when Gotham's finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in, it seems like Harley has finally found a place to grow into her most "true true" with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Comic Art
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his best friend, Sara, moves to New York City, Jimmy--who loves science fiction but knows very little about the outside world--works up the courage to travel cross-country by bus to see her, and perhaps change their relationship.
9) Flamer
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about Bangladesh while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime when a man violently attacks her for wearing a headscarf. Deeply traumatized by the experience, Nisrin spends the summer depressed and isolated. Other than weekly therapy,...
Author
Series
Avant-Guards volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a transfer student to the Georgia O'Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle Dramatics, former sports star Charlie is struggling to find her classes, her dorm, and her place amongst a student body full of artists who seem to know exactly where they're going. When the school's barely-a-basketball-team unexpectedly attempts to recruit her, Charlie's adamant that she's left that life behind...until she's won over by the charming team captain, Liv, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In another world, ninja are the ultimate power--and in the village of Konohagakure live the stealthiest ninja in the world. But twelve years ago Konohagakure was attached by a fearsome threat--a nine-tailed fox demon which claimed the life of the Hokage, the village champion. Today, peace has returned, and a troublemaking orphan named Uzumaki Naruto is struggling to graduate from the ninja Academy. His goal: to become the next Hokage. But unknown...
Author
Series
Heartstopper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore, and he's sort of got a boyfriend, even if he's kind of mean and only wants to meet up in secret. Nick Nelson is in Year 11 and on the school rugby team. He's heard a little about Charlie - the kid who was outed last year and bullied for a few months - but he's never had the opportunity to talk to him. That...
14) Swallow me whole
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Swallow Me Whole is a love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucination, apophenia, insect armies, secrets held, unshakeable faith, and the search for a master pattern to make sense of one's unraveling. In his most ambitious book to date, Nate Powell quietly explores the dark corners of adolescence-- not the cliched melodramatic outbursts of rebellion, but the countless tiny moments of madness, the vague relief of medication, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK! Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don't worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan that'll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian and out. See, she's going to intern with Harlowe Brisbane - her favorite feminist author, someone...
16) I kill giants
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Barbara is an angry elementary-school girl who is known as a freak and claims to be a killer of giants. She faces bullies and storms with no fear, but cannot face what she hides from at home.
17) The waiting
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
19) Marvel 1602
Author
Publisher
Marvel Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
1602, England. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings and at the center of the rising chaos is Virginia Dare, a young girl newly arrived from the New World, guarded by a towering Indian warrior. Can Fury and his allies find a connection to these unusual happenings before the whole...
20) The magic fish
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tié̂n still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tié̂n, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"--
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