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Series
Goodnight Punpun volume 7
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"This is the end, Punpun"-- Taken from publisher.
Author
Series
Goodnight Punpun volume 4
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
450 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Punpun is on his own now. His mom is dead and his dad is useless. When he's not working crappy part-time jobs, he spends most of his time on the floor of his room. But buck up, PunPun! It's only the rest of your life, right?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Series
Goodnight Punpun volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
480 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Punpun has finally reunited with the love of his life, Aiko! But she isn't as exciting and wonderful as he remembered. And she doesn't make him exciting and wonderful. In fact, he thinks they're both terribly banal. And now they've done something terrible ... Punpun, what do you do when there's no way out?
4) Hungry ghost
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Pub. Date
2023
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Description
After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help.
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, knows that she has been binging and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself taking a good, hard look at...
5) The mare
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 unnumbered volume : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"A juvenile fiction coming-of-age story in graphic novel format, exploring issues of self-doubt and restlessness in the late teenage years"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Follow the journey of two young adults, Joshua and Claire, each individually shaped by the day the sky went dark, but drawn to each other because of it. Coming of age in this new landscape, they will be forced to confront and challenge notions of identity, guilt, and survival as the darkness grows around them. When fear threatens to envelop all hope they have left, the two discover that love, family, and finding the true light in a world seemingly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Description
"A Princess Diana unlike any we've seen before. As a child, she is spoiled and free to exert her will without restraint -- until her selfishness leads to tragic results. Before she can become a hero, she will first have to find redemption"--Page 4 of cover.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
168 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Description
"Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he is also terrified that he had been outed as gay. Just as he's contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the world, a search for inner peace proves to be the most...
9) Miss Quinces
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Pub. Date
2022
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"Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. They live way out in the country, which means no texting, no cable, and no Internet! The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quince|era for Sue, which is the last thing she wants. She can't imagine...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
236 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down? At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia and missed even more school. Before Jimmy knew it, his grades were sinking and nothing seemed to be going right. How did Jimmy turn things around, get back...
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Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
Description
My Mom Had an Abortion is a unique coming-of-age tale told by a self-described dyslexic-asexual-lesbian-feminist teenager and illustrated by body-positive comic artist Tatiana Gill. We follow our protagonist Beezus B. Murphy as she chronicles her evolving understanding of menstruation, reproduction, and abortion and finds her place in a confusing world. Initially influenced by harmful narratives in pop media such as the “the pregnant teenager”...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
246 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods."--Provided by publisher.
14) This one summer
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
317 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summer getaway, her refuge. Her friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had, completing her summer family. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and Rose and Windy have gotten tangled up in a tragedy-in-the-making in the small town of Awago Beach. It's a summer of secrets and heartache, and it's a good...
15) Fire starters
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
53 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Looking for a little mischief after finding an old flare gun, Ron and Ben suddenly find themselves in trouble when the local gas bar on Agamiing Reserve goes up in flames, and they are wrongly accused of arson by the sheriff's son. As the investigation goes forward, community attitudes are revealed, and the truth slowly comes to light.
16) The talk
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
17) Srta. Quinces
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
234 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Sue solo quiere pasar el verano leyendo y haciendo c̤mics en el campamento con sus amigos, pero en lugar de eso se embarca con sus padres y sus dos hermanas en un viaje a Honduras a visitar a la familia, que vive en medio del campo, ¡as̕ que no podr̀ mandar mensajes y no tendr̀ cable ni internet! Las cosas empeoran cuando la mam̀ de Sue anuncia que le har̀n una quinceąera sorpresa a la chica, aunque esto es lo ͠ltimo que ella desear̕a....
Author
Series
Eat your heart out volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
102 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Blanca is running away. Away from her mother--the overbearing and strict Reina--and her mother's narrow idea of what shape Blanca's life should take. While Reina finds Blanca's dream of pursuing fashion design a wasteful flight of fancy, Blanca sees possibility . . . and she knows if she doesn't leave now, she might never. Of course, following your passion isn't easy, and when Blanca arrives in New York City without a job or a roof over her head,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
192 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Carlos Gomez is a member of the only Mexican American family in town, so he's used to being the odd one out. A lisp, a penchant for girl glamor, and being picked on by the class bully don't help either. But now there's a talent show coming up, and Carlos is performing with the BMX stunt team. What could possibly go wrong?
20) The high desert
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining--new school, new you, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of micro-aggressors to future Neo-Nazis. Mixed race, acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty,...
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