Catalog Search Results
1) Class act
Author
Language
English
Description
"Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together."--Provided by publisher....
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts MEGASCOPE
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
55 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious massacre that took place there in 1921. Across the Tracks introduces the reader to the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 690L
Physical Desc
272 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
4) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First graphic edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism in graphic-novel format focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists."--
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
Presents a graphic novel describing the life, accomplishments, and murder of Medgar Evers, a NAACP fighter for African-American civil rights.
7) The talk
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the 'the talk' parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : chiefly color illustrations
Language
English
Description
A Black graduate student named Lyndsey's life is turned upside down when she discover a mysterious box that always seems to appear during the most violent and troubled times in Africana history. As she uncovers secrets that connect the box to major events in Black history for her dissertation, she must decide whether or not to open the box. But soon the lines between fact and fiction begin to blur, and Lyndsey starts to feel like she's losing her...
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (45 pages) : chiefly color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Black graduate student Lyndsey Ford is writing a dissertation on mysterious box called the Box of Bones. When questioned about her research by faculty, she shares a story of her grandfather who was brutally attacked by a group of white classmates as a teenager along with his friend Gauge who was raped. Gauge used the Box of Bones to enact her revenge on their attackers, and Lyndsey has begun to discover connections between the box and violent events...
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
GN 460L
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In Southern California, during World War II, twin sisters Flaca and Cuata are harassed by soldiers stationed nearby, but a bigger problem arises when the lost member of an underground species, shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard, needs the sisters' help.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 16 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lee Wagstaff is the daughter of a black sharecropper in the depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi. When Lily Westmoreland, her white playmate, is snatched by agents of an evil creature known as Bog, Lee's father is accused of kidnapping. Lee's only hope is to follow Lily's trail into this fantastic and frightening alternate world. Along the way she enlists the help of a benevolent, blues singing, swamp monster called Bayou. Together, Lee and...
12) Palestine
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
vi, 285 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
13) No Ivy League
Author
Series
Publisher
Roar [an imprint of] The Lion Forge LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
205 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When 17-year-old Hazel Newlevant takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in her home town of Portland, Oregon, her only expectation is to earn a little money. Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, Hazel soon finds her job working side by side with at-risk teens to be an initiation into a new world that she has no skill in navigating. This uncomfortable and compelling memoir is an important story of a girl's awakening to the racial insularity...
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
As a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in East London, Sabba Khan paints a vivid snapshot of contemporary British Asian life and investigates the complex shifts experienced by different generations within immigrant communities, creating an uplifting and universal story that crosses borders and decades. Race, gender, and class are explored in a compelling personal narrative creating a strong feminist message of self-reflection and empowerment...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act" --