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Author
Publisher
Clover Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Teaching Artfully draws the reader in as it presents the growth and explorations of an early-career art teacher, the author Meghan Parker. Parker comes to understand both her teaching and art-making practices through making insightful comics. The reader, too will find themselves illuminated and inspired and entertained! Teaching Artfully looks at daily teaching practices, visual literacy, the teacher's experience, relationships, and engagement with...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In lithe, sensuous colored pencils, this international prize-winning, impressionistic graphic biography traces the life, the affairs, and the artistic process of Anais Nin, one of the best-known authors of women's erotica in the 1920s and '30s"--
Author
Publisher
Humanoids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Katherine Johnson grew up to be the first Black woman to work at NASA, figuring out the path for spacecrafts to go around the Earth and land on the Moon! But before she set her sights on outer space, she was busy making the Earth's surface her laboratory! Equipped with a mind for math, nothing gets past Katherine: how did Noah manage to put 48,000 animals on his ark, not to mention all that feed?! Accompanied by her brother Charlie and her chicken...
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A poignant bilingual YA graphic memoir about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who crosses the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey is filled with both heartbreak and hope. Will America be the country of dreams like they imagined? Or will...
Author
Publisher
BiG, an imprint of Humanoids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The hilarious adventures of the acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie as a child—a curious little girl who treats the everyday world as one big crime scene! As an unusual child with a penchant for puzzles, Young Agatha imagines thrilling twists on the classic fairytales (was the story of "Goldilocks" a plot by Baby Bear to get more porridge?), transforms a tea party into a crime scene, and in general drives her friends and family mad with her...
27) A chance
Author
Publisher
Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The incredible lives and hidden histories of eighteen women writers from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century are brought to life in this compelling graphic collection. From the forgotten mother of the gothic genre to the unexpected success of Little Women, the personal account of a mastectomy in 1811 to the public speech advocating intersectional suffrage in 1866, learn the untold stoies behind some of the greatest written works in the English...
Author
Series
Action presidents volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"We all know that George Washington was our first president and a hero of the American Revolution. But did you also know that he didn't want to be president, never thought he would fight in a war, and had teeth so bad that he hated to smile? Read all about the ultimate Founding Father, prime patriot, and awesome American George Washington in the first Action Presidents book, where the history is real and the jokes are fake!"-- cover page 4.
30) Abraham Lincoln!
Author
Series
Action presidents volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address and ended the Civil War. But did you also know that he pardoned the first White House turkey, once snuck into Washington in disguise, and grew his famous beard because an eleven-year-old girl said it made him look less ugly?! Read all about the radical rail-spliter, supreme speaker, and paramount president Abraham Lincoln in the second Action Presidents book, where the history...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tokyo Rose: Zero Hour tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American woman who was visiting her relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trapped in Japan, Iva refused to renounce her American citizenship. But she was forced to take a job with Radio Tokyo to host "Zero Hour," a propaganda broadcast aimed at demoralizing American troops--in the role of the infamous Tokyo Rose, 'The Siren of the Pacific.'"-- provided by...
Author
Series
Hakim's odyssey volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in the birth of his son. But between unstable jobs and selling what he can in the streets, it's hard to survive--and impossible for the family to stay together. Reluctantly separated from the woman he loves and alone with his child, Hakim will have to overcome incredible odds and seemingly impossible obstacles to reunite his family, which leads him to make the most difficult decision of...
Author
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka{u2014}Japan's "God of Manga"{u2014}looks at one of the twentieth century's great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). It is also an anecdotal study of the evolution of Japan's early manga and anime business and its heroes. A never-before-seen popular culture history of postwar Japan, it is sure to fascinate fans and anyone interested in manga, anime, and the potential of the...
35) In waves
Author
Publisher
No Brow
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Even though Kristen hadnt touched a surfboard in years, she looked as though she had never stopped. She inspired us all. But Kristen wasnt always up for it; her body had its limits. Told in a series of alternating chapters. AJ Dungo delves into the origins and evolution of surf by looking back at the sports greatest heroes; while reflecting on his own personal narrative of love, loss, and the solace of surfing.
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When the Rolling Stones hit the scene in the 60's, it was to play rhythm & blues, nothing more. They were far from imagining that they would change music, let alone become the mouthpiece of a changing world. Sticking their tongue out at the establishment with their brilliant music and hard-hitting lyrics, they achieved planet-wide success. With Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in the lead, these rebels have become, over 50 years, not just a band, but...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Arab of the Future, comes the first book in a bestselling series of graphic novels that follow the hilarious, heartbreaking, and all painfully true life of a real girl growing up in Paris. Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friend's 10-year old daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, her family, her school, her friends, her hopes, her dreams and her fears. And then he creates a one-page...
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Discover the man behind Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang in this imaginative and tender-hearted tribute told in comic-strip format! Charles M. Schulz was arguably the most influential and popular cartoonist of the 20th century, and he poured many of his own emotions and experiences into the world of Peanuts over its iconic 50-year run. Now, Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi pay tribute to the master by telling the story of Schulz’s...
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