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This side-by-side bilingual collection of graphic memoirs by Latino youth immigrants not only builds connections across language, but also breaks down barriers and expands hope. Their book is an opportunity to hear directly from youth who are often in the headlines but whose stories don’t get told in full. Spanish/English edition.
“Visually stunning.” —Kirkus, starred reviewIn this debut graphic memoir, a young woman searches for belonging as her immigrant family moves between Canada and China. Lily isn’t sure where home is anymore. Her family is constantly on the move, resettling in different towns across Canada and, eventually, in Shanghai, China. Her father plays the role of…
Mei, Maggie, and Sophie are BEST FRIENDS FOREVER! With fourth grade just around the corner, the three girls look forward to another fun school year together. But disaster strikes on the first day of school: MAGGIE’S LEAVING!! Suddenly, Mei and Sophie only have each other. They can still have fun together, right? But soon, Sophie…
“Visually stunning.” —Kirkus, starred reviewIn this debut graphic memoir, a young woman searches for belonging as her immigrant family moves between Canada and China. Lily isn’t sure where home is anymore. Her family is constantly on the move, resettling in different towns across Canada and, eventually, in Shanghai, China. Her father plays the role of…
Mei, Maggie, and Sophie are BEST FRIENDS FOREVER! With fourth grade just around the corner, the three girls look forward to another fun school year together. But disaster strikes on the first day of school: MAGGIE’S LEAVING!! Suddenly, Mei and Sophie only have each other. They can still have fun together, right? But soon, Sophie…
A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti–the Pan-African frontman, multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powerhouse, and father of Afrobeat. In this bold and striking graphic novel, artist Jibola Fagbamiye and writer Conor McCreery team up to tell the remarkable origin story of one of Nigeria’s most famous sons, the King of…
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York…
THE TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE BOY DID HIS PART TO END THE SYRIAN REGIME A 2024 YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for Teens – An NPR Best Book of 2023 – A 2023 NCSS Notable Social Studies Book “Inspiring and exciting, powerful and very poignant” –Anderson Cooper ★ “[A] gripping narrative, told with…
Exploring American history and finding diversity at its roots–now in SPANISH! Now available in an affordable Spanish paperback edition, this award-winning graphic novel by James Otis Smith stars three real-life Black heroes who took control of their destinies and stood up for their communities in the Old West. Meet Mary Fields, born into slavery in…
“The racial and cultural diversity of the Old West gets the comic-book treatment in Smith’s exploration of the lives and adventures of three Black historical figures…It’s about time.”—Kirkus Reviews NYPL’S TOP 10 BOOKS FOR KIDSA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Exploring American history and finding diversity at its roots! This graphic novel by JAMES…
“With light and airy illustrations, Mahdavian tackles these complex themes with humor and wit.” —NPR, Books We Love 2023 NPR BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ● NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS WE’VE READ IN 2023● A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West, by New…
“The racial and cultural diversity of the Old West gets the comic-book treatment in Smith’s exploration of the lives and adventures of three Black historical figures…It’s about time.”—Kirkus Reviews NYPL’S TOP 10 BOOKS FOR KIDSA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Exploring American history and finding diversity at its roots! This graphic novel by JAMES…
Ho Che Anderson’s long-awaited sequel to the graphic novel biography of the life and career of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ultimately traces the civil rights leader’s life from his birth to assassination. Anderson’s successful use of graphic novel to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to works by Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco.
Great Lives in Graphics: Frida Kahlo reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. You may already know that Frida Kahlo was an artist, but did you know she lived in a bright blue house? Or that she owned two pet spider monkeys? The…
A celebration of the wacky and wonderful Jewish grandmothers who nurtured the author as she grew from a kid struggling with anxiety and insecurity to a teen finding her own voice. Danny Noble grew up in an eccentric family with two weird and wonderful Jewish grandmas living right around the corner. One grandma stuffed her…
Imagine living in a high-rise mini-city that people built with their own hands. This city took up only the size of a sports stadium, but it was home to sixty thousand people! What would it be like to live in the most tightly packed place on Earth? Fiona wanted to find out, so she went…
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