cartoons and comics

"This graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth includes her creative awakening and her much-speculated-upon encounters with Tom Lefroy, a brash law student"--Provided by publisher.

Liz Prince chronicles her efforts to reject a "girly" identity as a child and young adult, and her later realization that she can be comfortable with being a woman without embracing an ultra-feminine identity.

The author shares her memories of growing up on McNeil Island in Washington State which also housed the prison where her parents worked.

Presents a graphic novel history of women in space, exploring the struggles that both American and Russian women, including Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and Sally Ride, faced in their quest to become astronauts.

Presents a graphic memoir of artist and immigrant Shing Yin Khor and her trip with her dog Bug's to travel America's famous Route 66 to find out what it really means to "be American.".

In graphic novel form, Raina Telegmeier relates her struggles with stress and anxiety as a child.

In graphic novel format, describes Medgar Evers' efforts to gain equal rights for African Americans in Missisippi, his work with the NAACP, and his assassination in 1963, which gave the Civil Rights Movement new momentum.

"Monsters to laugh with! The funniest-looking monsters you've ever seen are here."--Cover.

Tells the life story of Sioux chief Sitting Bull in graphic novel format, covering the Battle of the Little Bighorn and providing background on the conflicts between the U.S. government and Native Americans in the West.

Tells the life stories of Orville and Wilbur Wright in graphic novel format, chronicling the path to their historic flight on December 17, 1903.