comic books, strips, etc

This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban s rule in Afghanistan.

Provides a graphic novel account of the life of Anne Frank, covering her family, the rise of Nazism, her years in the Secret Annex, her arrest, her deportation, her death, her father's recovery of her diary, and other related topics.

In this graphic retelling, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn witness a murder, run away from home, and find a treasure in nineteenth-century Missouri.

"Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continental United States. Now imagine she is black and is journeying across the country in the pre-Civil Rights era of the 1930s and '40s. That is the amazing true story of Bessie Stringfield, the woman known today as The Motorcycle Queen of Miami and the first black woman to be inducted into the American Motorcyclist Association Hall of Fame and the Harley Davidson Hall of Fame. Stringfield was a pioneer in motorcycling during her lifetime; she rode as a civilian courier for the US military and founded the Iron Horse Motorcycle Club in Miami, all while confronting and overcoming Jim Crow in every ride"--Provided by publisher.

"The ... true story of the Second World War, set in Budapest, Hungary, shows in vivid words and pictures how Peter, his cousin Eva and his mum and dad bravely struggle to survive in a city torn apart by warfare."--OCLC.

A graphic novelization of Anthony Horowitz's "Scorpia" in which fourteen-year-old Alex Rider goes to Italy after being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.

In graphic novel format Dr. Cosmic's class of monsters looks at gravity, comets, and the Solar system.

In the late 1930's, Spanish Facists, led by Francisco Franco, and aided by Hitler and Mussolini, overthrew the democratically elected government of Spain. Almost 200,000 men and women fell in battle, were executed, or died in prison. Their orphaned children were ripped from their homes and shuttled from place to place, tortured, and fed a steady diet of misinformation. The author of this graphic memoir, Carlos, Gimenez, was one of those children. In 1975, after Franco's death, Carlos began to tell his story in comic book form.

Rolando P?erez falls to his death outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, sparking rumors of a conspiracy that he may have sacrificed himself to protect documents from his family, the police, and the Catholic Church. After Rolando's death, Ilan Stavans arrives in Santa Fe to give a lecture on "crypto-Jews" and he is drawn into a race to find Rolando's lost documents that may contain secrets to Rolando's mysterious death.