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THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE HONOR BOOK! From Stonewall Honor-winning writer SJ Sindu, author of Shakti, and celebrated illustrator Dion MBD comes a powerful coming-of-age teen graphic novel that follows one girl’s journey to Sri Lanka to reconnect with her long-lost mother during the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Perfect for fans…
THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE HONOR BOOK! From Stonewall Honor-winning writer SJ Sindu, author of Shakti, and celebrated illustrator Dion MBD comes a powerful coming-of-age teen graphic novel that follows one girl’s journey to Sri Lanka to reconnect with her long-lost mother during the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Perfect for fans…
A great read and teaching tool for National Indigenous History Month! Inspired by true events, this story of strength, family, and culture shares the awe-inspiring resilience of Elder Betty Ross. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy is adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changes. Betsy…
Navigate through monsters, mysteries, and the will of the gods with two young extraordinary adventurers in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica as they search for a missing father. Donajà is a fearless Zapotec girl who, even though she’s only fifteen, is heralded as a hero by her village. In Codex Black, Donajà sets out on an adventure–accompanied by…
Best friends Donajà and Itzcacalotl stumble into dangerous political intrigue in this follow-up to the young adult epic Codex Black: A Fire Among Clouds! In 15th-century Mesoamerica, Donajà and Itzcacalotl travel to the Oracle of Lyobaa in the hopes of learning the secret behind DonajÃ’s missing father. But instead of receiving information, they find themselves…
Best Books of 2024 lists: NYPL, The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire – Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024, Ms. magazine – Kids Indie Next Pick A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about how mothers and daughters pass down–and rebel against–standards of size, gender, race, beauty, and worth. Guangdong, 1954 Sixteen-year-old Mei Laan longs for…
A graphic novel adaptation of Bryan Davis’s bestselling YA Christian fantasy Raising Dragons that’s inspired thousands of readers. A boy with fiery breath. A girl with dragon wings. And an ancient prophecy launching them into an epic destiny. Teen outcasts Billy Bannister and Bonnie Silver must come together to preserve a secret legacy more than…
Best Books of 2024 lists: NYPL, The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire – Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024, Ms. magazine – Kids Indie Next Pick A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about how mothers and daughters pass down–and rebel against–standards of size, gender, race, beauty, and worth. Guangdong, 1954 Sixteen-year-old Mei Laan longs for…
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator Isabel Greenberg’s Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest is a unique YA graphic novel about an epic quest through Arthurian legends and a girl’s journey to believe in magic again after the loss of her mother. ****4 starred reviews!**** Once there was magic in Britain. There were dragons…
On a journey to uncover her family’s story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land–creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls. They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the…
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator Isabel Greenberg’s Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest is a unique YA graphic novel about an epic quest through Arthurian legends and a girl’s journey to believe in magic again after the loss of her mother. ****4 starred reviews!**** Once there was magic in Britain. There were dragons…
Acclaimed creator Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award Honor Book As the Crow Flies) brings together two unlikely partners, a Latinx outlaw and a trans runaway, for a rollicking queer western adventure full of robbery and romance. Young Grace, a trans runaway, has headed west, fleeing her Georgia home–and conscription into the Confederate Army. But her coach…
It’s 1830 and Mexico experiences a political divide when their first Afro-Mexican president, Vicente Guerrero is assassinated. Demons begin to enter through dimensional doorways as the fate of Mexico is left at the hands of the young Tijax Tabares, who summons the power of the Aztec and Mayan gods and the protector iEl Fuego! Making…
After his parents are brutally murdered, Ahiahia is raised by his grandmother in a camp surrounded by enemies. His grandmother knows that eventually the camp will turn on Ahiahia, just as it did his parents, so she chants a protection chant over the clothing that she lovingly sews for him, over the amulet and necklace…
Es 1830 y México experimenta una división polÃtica cuando su primer presidente afro-mexicano, Vicente Guerrero, es asesinado. Se abre otra división cuando los demonios comienzan a entrar por las puertas dimensionales y el destino de México queda en manos del joven Tijax Tabares, quien invoca el poder de los dioses aztecas y mayas para convertirse…
AJ WASHINGTON AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ALL SEEING EYE Every kid thinks there might be monsters in the closet-but for one little boy, they’re real. When he uncovers a secret about who he truly is, his world turns upside down. Thrust into an adventure that will test his courage, he’ll make new friends, face…
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