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Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
159 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Liz Montague was a senior in college, she wrote to the New Yorker, asking them why they didn't publish more inclusive comics. The New Yorker wrote back asking if she could recommend any. She responded: yes, me. Those initial cartoons in the New Yorker led to this memoir of Liz's youth, from the age of five through college--how she navigated life in her predominantly white New Jersey town, overcame severe dyslexia through art, and found the confidence...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 330L
Physical Desc
236 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down? At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia and missed even more school. Before Jimmy knew it, his grades were sinking and nothing seemed to be going right. How did Jimmy turn things around, get back...
123) Passport
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages: chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young Sophia has lived in so many different countries, she can barely keep count. Stationed now with her family in Central America because of her parents' work, Sophia feels displaced as an American living abroad, when she has hardly spent any of her life in America. Everything changes when she reads a letter she was never meant to see and uncovers her parents' secret. They are not who they say they are. They are working for the CIA. As Sophia tries...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Published in the USA by Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Second Drawn & Quarterly hardcover & paperback editions.
Physical Desc
582 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on the author's life, chronicling his journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
10 pages, 14 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 37 cm
Language
English
Description
Cartoonist Spiegelman presents a highly personalized, political, and confessional diary of his experience of September 11 and its aftermath. In 10 large-scale pages of original material (composed from September 11, 2001 to August 31, 2003), two essays, and 10 old comic strip reproductions from the early 20th century, Spiegelman expresses his feelings of dislocation, grief, anxiety, and outrage over the horror of the attacks---and the subsequent "hijacking"...
128) A Chinese life
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
691 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An autobiography in graphic-novel form, A Chinese Life traces a remarkable personal journey through modern history, from the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present day. Working in close collaboration with writer Philippe Ôtié, artist Li Kunwu has created a timely and compelling memoir of state and self that is at once epic and intimate, comic and tragic, in scope" -- page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
279 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A memoir in graphic novel format about the author's experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later.
"GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family's history. Born and raised in South Carolina as...
Author
Publisher
Zuiker Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lexi's story of cyberbullying is a shocking depiction of a young teenager's torment in the world of online harassment. Lexi is ganged up on by a few girls over a misunderstanding in the schoolyard. The incident escalates on social media, local chat boards, and gossip sites. In a twist of karmic fate, Lexi turns the tables on her former tormentors with one touch of a button."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A funny graphic memoir that takes us through the early diaries of Merrill Markoe (the original head writer for the The David Letterman Show) and captures the difficulties of growing up and, ultimately, finding out that a smart mouth is a perfectly fine thing to have" --