cartoons and comics

Presents a brief graphic novel featuring the story of Roald Amundsen and how he made it to the South Pole.

?Alex, Bernardo the caretaker, and a quirky cast of characters discover all kinds of interesting facts about space in ?Alex's extraordinary house.

"In graphic novel format, follows the adventures of Nickolas Flux as he travels back in time and must survive the California Gold Rush"--Provided by publisher.

"In graphic novel format, follows the adventures of Nickolas Flux as he travels back in time and must survive the eruption of Mount Vesuvius"--Provided by publisher.

A history of the Soviet War in Afghanistan during the Cold War that includes three stories in graphic novel format about actual skirmishes in the war.

Relates the story of how the peacful protest begun by Rosa Parks and led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., brought about the desegregation of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and 1956.

"A graphic history of the Civil War, told through everyday objects"--.

The author recounts her childhood experiences in Beirut during the civil war between Christians and Muslims in the 1980s, as her family tried to carry on a normal life despite violence, a partition of the city, and a lack of food.

"When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance Expedition to Antarctica, what's a teenage history buff to do? Try to avoid becoming stranded, of course! From the crushing of the Endurance to a heroic lifeboat journey, Nick must survive one of the most amazing expeditions of the early 1900s"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of twenty stories, in graphic novel format, that depict life in New England between 1620 and 1750, focusing on the people and stories that did not make it into the history books. Created by comic book writers and artists and renowned historians.