Graphic Novels for
Grades 11 & 12
(ONLY for 11A, 11AP, & 12A students)
ONLY need to choose ONE book from either FICTION, NON-FICTION, or GRAPHIC NOVELS
by Stan Lee, Peter David, & Colleen Doran
"The comic book author and creator of such famous comic-book characters as Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk describes his early struggles in the comic book industry of the 1940s and 1950s and his emergence as a world famous cartoonist."
Subjects: Authors, Comic book illustrators, Comic book writers, Comic books, strips, etc., Popular culture, Superhero comics
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Ant Colonyby Michael DeForge
"Follows the strange exploits of a handful of black ants in a colony at war with a nearby colony of red ants."
Subjects: Ants, Centipedes, Fathers and sons, Imaginary wars and battles, Interpersonal relations, Lovers, Police, Prophets, Spiders, War and society
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Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of HiroshimaBarefoot Gen series #1
"In this graphic depiction of nuclear devastation, three survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima--Gen, his mother, and his baby sister--face rejection, hunger, and humiliation in their search for a place to live."
Subjects: Atomic bomb, Bombings, Boys, Children and war, Hunger, Nuclear holocaust survivors, Parent and child, Self-sacrifice, Survival (after nuclear warfare), War and civilization, World War II
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"Deogratias is just a teenager when he experiences genocide in Rwanda with the tale unfolding only before and after the massacre revealing the madness and horror of one young boy and his country."
Subjects: Children and war, Coming of age, Genocide, Violence, Wars, Abandoned children, Brothers and sisters, Ethnic identity, Identity (Psychology), Multiracial children, Racism, Teenage boys, Teenage girls, War and society
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"An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual."
Subjects: Coming of age, Family life, Family relations, LGBTQ+, Autobiographies, Divorce, Funeral homes, Historic preservation, Teacher-student relationships, Undertakers and undertaking
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by Jules Feiffer
"The lives of five women from two different families are forever linked and altered by a drunk private eye during the Depression."
Subjects: Comic books, Detective fiction, History, Women, Actors and actresses, Boxers (Sports), Deception, False personation, Femmes fatales, Intrigue, Murder, Private investigators, Secrets
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Treasury of XXth Century Murder series - A Treasury of Victorian Murder
by Rick Geary
"This suspenseful historical whodunit from graphic novelist Rick Geary is the fourth installment in the Treasury of XXth Century Murder series. Geary continues to examine the details surrounding controversial cases from history in a graphic novel format with this tale about Nicola Sacco and Bartomoleo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants who were executed for theft and murder. One of the most notorious and divisive trials in the 20th century, the case caused an uproar as many people around the world felt the evidence against the men was insufficient. Geary sheds light on the lives and families of these two anarchists, their friendship with each other, and details about the crime, manhunt, and subsequent trial."
Subjects: Trials, History, Mystery, Italian Americans, Anarchists, Guilt (Law), Immigrants, Italian, Trials (Murder), Trials (Robbery)
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by Derf Backderf
"In graphic novel format, the author offers an account of growing up in the same schools as Jeffrey Dahmer, who went on to become one of the most notorious serial killers and cannibals in United States history."
Subjects: Crime, Criminals, Serial murders, Murder, Friendship, High schools, Biographies
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Persepolis series #1-2
"The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and private life."
Subjects: Adolescence, Autobiographies, Childhood, Coming of age, Cultural conflict, Family, Islam, Middle East, Muslims
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by Sarah Glidden
"Glidden accompanies her two friends--reporters and founders of the journalistic non-profit The Seattle Globalist--as they research stories on the Iraq War's effect on the Middle East and, specifically, the war's refugees. Joining them is a former Marine and childhood friend of one of the journalists whose deployment to Iraq in 2007 adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint, both to the people they come across and perhaps even themselves."
Subjects: Cartoonists, Interviewing in journalism, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Journalism, Journalistic ethics, Journalists, Marines, Refugees War and society, War correspondents, War in the news media
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by David Small
"The author recounts in graphic novel format his troubled childhood with a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of sixteen in the hopes of becoming an artist."
Subjects: Autobiographies, Cancer, Father-son relations, Art, Family secrets
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by Henrik Rehr
"Fictional account of the life of the young Serbian terrorist, Gavrilo Princep, who touched off World War I in 1914 by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand."
Subjects: Assassination, Assassins, Military history, Revolutionaries, Serbs in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Terrorists, War, World War I
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"Meet Victorian London's most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. When Lovelace translated a description of Babbage's plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, she added annotations three times longer than the original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. Sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and Babbage never built any of his machines. But do not despair! The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do..."
Subjects: Computers, Crime prevention, Mathematicians, Technology, Women mathematicians
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V for Vendetta
"In a near-future Britain ruled by a totalitarian regime, Evey is rescued from certain death by a masked vigilante calling himself "V," a beguiling and charismatic figure who launches a one-man crusade against government tyranny and oppression."
Subjects: Dictators, Dystopias, Futuristic society, Resistance movements, Science fiction, Suspense, Terrorism, Violence
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 01: Days Gone ByeThe Walking Dead series #1
by Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore
"Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family isstill alive and endures many horrors along the way."
Subjects: End of the world, Survival, Family, Zombies, Plague, Comic books, Law enforcement, Death, Grief, Betrayal, Terror, Human behavior, Violence, Apocalypse
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"Moore and Gibbons have crafted what many feel is the ultimate superhero story. In a world where Richard Nixon was never impeached, superheroes were outlawed, with the exception of Dr. Manhattan, a human atomically powered and employed by the government. When Dr. Manhattan disappears, it brings all the "normal" superheroes out of hiding, and humanity must face the ways that superpowered individuals could truly change the world as we know it."
Subjects: Comic books, Conspiracy, Politics, Adventure, Crime, Arms control, Cold War, Crime, Criminals, Murder, Political corruption, Superheroes, Vigilantes
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