Graphic Novels for
Grades 9 & 10
(ONLY for 9A, 9H, & 10A students)
ONLY need to choose ONE book from either FICTION, NON-FICTION, or GRAPHIC NOVELS
"Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture."
Subjects: Adolescence, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Comic strips, Comic books, Identity, Racism, Schools, Self love
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by Vera Brosgol
"Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse."
Subjects: Belonging, Child immigrants, Ghosts, Immigrant families, Interpersonal relations, Russian Americans, Schools, Self-esteem, Teenage girls and ghosts, Wells
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by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá
"Presents key moments in the life of Bras de Oliva Domingos, a Brazilian writer and sometime journalist, and the son of a prominent author, as if each episode would turn out to be the day in which he was about to die."
Subjects: Death, Friendship, Love, Grief, Comic books, Expectation (Psychology), Family relationships, Men, Men/women relations, Obituary writers, Purpose in life, Second chances
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by Don Brown
"On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage -- and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history."
Subjects: Natural disasters, Rescue work, Death, Social class, Convention facilities, Floods, Heroes and heroines, Hurricane damage, Hurricane Katrina, Responsibility, Survival (after hurricanes)
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by Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang
"Immersing herself in an online role-playing game where she enjoys fantasy heroics, Anda confronts a difficult choice when she befriends a disadvantaged Chinese kid who works illegally to collect valuable objects and sell them to other players for real money."
Subjects: Cultural differences, Guilt, Injustice, Internet games, Online friendship, Poverty, Role playing games, Social justice, Teenagers, Video gamers
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by Brooke Gladstone & Josh Neufeld
"The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today."
Subjects: Journalism, Technology, History, Broadcast journalism, Mass media, Newspapers, Television
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March series #1
"A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement."
Subjects: History, Civil rights movements, Segregation, Comic books, African Americans, United States history
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Marvels series #1
by Kurt Busiek & Alex Ross
"Follows thirty-five years of Marvel superhero action from the perspective of Phil Sheldon, a newspaper photographer who witnessed some of the more spectacular battles and events."
Subjects: Good and evil, Prejudice, Fear, Curiosities and wonders, Difference (Psychology), Heroes and heroines, Men, Mutants, Photographers, Superheroes, Superheroines, Xenophobia
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Ms. Marvel, Volume III & IV series #1
by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona
"Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American girl from Jersey City who lives a conservative Muslim lifestyle with her family, suddenly acquires superhuman powers and, despite the pressures of school and home, tries to use her abilities to help her community."
Subjects: High school girls, Islam, Ms. Marvel (Fictitious character), Muslim teenagers, Superheroes, Superheroines, Teenage girls, Teenage superheroes
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Monster: A Graphic Novelby Walter Dean Myers, Guy A. Sims, & Dawud Anyabwile
"While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken."
Subjects: African American teenagers, Robbery, Self-perception, Teenage boys, Teenage murder suspects, Teenage prisoners, Trials (Murder)
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"Lord Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, and his sidekick, Nimona, an impulsive young shapeshifter, must prove to the kingdom that Sir Goldenloin and the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are."
Subjects: Comic books, Fantasy, Science fiction, Technology, Middle Ages, Good and evil, Humor, Quests, Shapeshifters, Supervillains
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by Gene Luen Yang
"In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity... The Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero."
Subjects: Science fiction, History, Asian Americans, Comic books, Adventure, Mythology, Father-son relations, Immigrants
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"Rose's latest summer at a beach lake house is overshadowed by her parents' constant arguments, her younger friend's secret sorrows, and the dangerous activities of older teens."
Subjects: Comic books, Summer, Family, Adolescence, Vacations, Friendship, Beaches, Change, Family problems, Girls, Growing up, Secrets
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"Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss. These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll. Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there..."
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works), Horror comics, Short stories, Creepy
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by Liz Prince
"Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir."
Subjects: Autobiographies, Coming of age, Sex roles, Comic books, Self esteem, Gender identity, Gender role, Teenage girls, Tomboys
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"A plague suddenly kills every mammal and cell on earth with a Y chromosome except, inexplicably, a man named Yorick and his pet monkey. Yorick's escape artist talents come in handy as various groups try to kill him, protect him, study him, or use him for purposes he cannot even imagine."
Subjects: Plague, Sex roles, Biological warfare, Terrorism, Women soldiers, Crisis management, Escape artists, Extremists, Gender role, Men, Men/women relations, Monkeys, Plague, Post-apocalypse, Voyages and travels, Women bodyguards, Women geneticists
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by G. Neri & Randy DuBurke
"A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members"
Subjects: Gangs, Violence, Murder, Urban life, Biographies, African Americans, Social sciences
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