graphic novels

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Laddertop

2011
When the alien Givers came to Earth, they built giant towers that rose 36,000 miles into space leading to space stations that powered the Earth. After the aliens disappeared, only highly skilled children could perform maintenance to keep the power flowing to Earth. Two of those children, Robbi and Azure, become entangled in the mystery that may solve the mystery of the Givers.

Miki Falls

2007
In Miki's final year of high school, she meets new student Hiro and falls for him. Miki doesn't realize that Hiro has a dangerous secret.

Barefoot Gen

2004
A graphic novel account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, based on the experiences of the author who was six-years-old at the time of the attack. Covers events leading up to and immediately following the bombing.

Herman Melville's Moby Dick

2008
Presents the story of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale, Moby Dick, in graphic novel format.

Jerusalem

a family portrait
Follows a Jewish family between 1940 and 1948 as they witness the events of the Holocaust and the moments leading up to the creation of a Jewish state.

Chiggers

2008
When Abby returns to the same summer camp she always goes to, she is dismayed to find that her old friends have changed, and the only person who wants to be her friend is the strange new girl, Shasta.

The lion or the mouse?

2003
In this adaptation of Aesop's fable, a mouse who removes a thorn from a lion's paw tries to turn himself into the mighty beast that he helped.

A game for swallows

to die, to leave, to return
2012
Zeina Abirached, a Lebanese Christian born in 1981 during the hight of the civil war between Christians and Muslims, here has her life recounted by her granddaughter, also named Zeina. Zeina, her little brother, and her parents were used to the bombings, threat of snipers, the dividing wall of Beirut made out of brick and sandbags, and constant danger. When her parents do not return one day from a visit to the other half of the city, Zeina's neighbors kindly take her in and try to make a home for her and her brother.

Relish

my life in the kitchen
2013
Lucy Knisley is the daughter of a chef and a gourmet. In her thoughtful and down-to-earth memoir, she casts a light on the role of food in all our lives.

I, witness

2012
When Boone and his friends witness a murder, and the friends are killed, Boone must decide whether to take responsibility and tell the truth, or to say nothing and let the murderers go free.

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