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Nat Turner and slave life on a southern plantation

Presents in graphic novel format the life and achievements of Nat Turner, a slave and prophet who led a revolt against slave owners in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

It's her story Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells was a groundbreaking journalist and civil rights activist in the decades after the Civil War. She worked fiercely for the equal treatment of Black people in schools, in society, and at the voting booth. With her powerful voice, she spoke out against injustice wherever she saw it.

The fire never goes out

a memoir in pictures
A collection of personal comics documenting the highs and lows of the author-illustrator's life over an eight-year span. Discusses her award nomination for her debut graphic novel "Nimona," her relationships, her creative process, and her struggle with mental health.

Ay, Mija!

my bilingual summer in Mexico
In this graphic novel based on the author's life, sixteen-year-old Christine travels to Mexico for the first time to spend the summer with their grandparents and extended family. Besides the language barrier, Christine struggles with aspects of the culture, with their unfamiliar surroundings, and with homesickness after their mother arrives from Texas some weeks later. However, eventually Christine finds a way to embrace their surroundings and discovers they have a place in both worlds.

Basquiat

Graphic novel depiction the life of American graffiti artist and painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Chronicles his troubled childhood, involvement in the SAMO graffiti duo, his struggles with drug addiction, rise to fame as a neo-expressionist painter, and death from a drug overdose in 1988 at the age of twenty-seven.

Messy roots

a graphic memoir of a Wuhanese American
Presents a graphic novel memoir in which the queer Asian American author toggles between the past and the present as she describes her childhood in Wuhan, China, growing up with her Chinese immigrant parents in Texas, her budding attraction to other girls, and the arrival of the COVID-19 virus.

The Batman & Scooby-Doo! mysteries

"It all starts when Alfred's old friend from butler school is in town, and he's brought along his charges: Daphne and Scooby-Doo! When Scooby and his pal Ace are dog-napped, the humans will have to rescue them without giving away any family secrets"--Amazon.

Rocket and Groot

tales of terror
"Determined to pull off another (not so) successful heist, Rocket and Groot find themselves trapped in the forest with a mysterious cloaked figure. The problem? They can't actually leave the woods until they tell the scariest story ever heard. Zombie aliens? Not scary enough. Bloodthirsty bugs? Nope, not good enough either. It isn't until the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy arrive that Rocket and Groot even stand a chance! Join the Guardians of the Galaxy in this hilarious (and spooky) Graphix adventure! It's perfect for young fans of the beloved Marvel characters." --.

Lilo & Stitch

When Stitch is kidnapped by robots from another planet, he travels around the world fighting them off in order to return to Lilo and his family.

Continental drifter

"With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That's when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine. Kathy loves Maine's idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can't get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries, she struggles to fit in. She doesn't look like the other kids in this rural New England town. Kathy just wants to find a place where she truly belongs, but she's not sure if it's in America, Thailand... or anywhere"--.

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