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Waltz with Bashir

a Lebanon war story
2009
Ari Folman's life becomes a nightmare when he sets out to reconstruct the events of one night twenty years earlier when, as an Israeli soldier in September 1982, he witnessed the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians by Christian militia members at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut.

At a crossroads

between a rock and my parents' place
2008
Watercolor illustrations aid in describing the twenty-three months that Kate T. Williamson spent living with her parents in Pennsylvania after she graduated from Harvard and spent a year in Japan.

The snowshoeing adventure of Milton Daub, blizzard trekker

2011
During an 1888 blizzard in the Bronx, New York, twelve-year-old Milton Daub makes a pair of snowshoes and braves the weather to take food and medicine to his neighbors.

El boicot a los autobuses de Montgomery

2007
In graphic novel format, chronicles the history and events surrounding the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and describes how one woman, Rosa Parks, led the way to the desegregation of buses in that city.

La historia de Jamestown

2007
Presented in accessible graphic novel format is the story of Jamestown, the first permanent settlement in North America.

La Cabalgata de Paul Revere

2007
Presented in accessible graphic novel format, this is the story of Paul Revere's ride to Lexington in April 1775 to warn colonists of approaching British troops.

La Masacre de Boston

2007
Presents a short history of the Boston Massacre which occurred in March 1770 written in graphic novel format, and focuses on the events leading up to the confrontation, its aftermath, and the trial of those involved.

El Mot?n del T? de Boston

2006
Contains the story of the Boston Tea Party, one of the acts of rebellion taken by patriots against England which led to the American Revolution. Presented as a graphic novel.

La Batalla de el ?lamo

2007
Presents a brief history of the Battle of the Alamo written in graphic comic format.

La fiebre del oro en California

2007
Presents an accounting of the 1849 California Gold Rush written in graphic novel format.

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