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by Kiku Hughes
Fiction
Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class.
Book: BCCLS
by Oima Yoshitoki
Fiction
Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can’t hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children’s cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?
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by Charles Burns
Fiction
A chilling graphic novel set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s describes the lives of the area’s teenagers, who are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that has descended on the young people of Seattle.
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by Octavia Butler
Fiction
Dana, a young black writer, can’t explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder – and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: hoopla
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
by Fabien Nury
Fiction
On March 1, 1953, Joseph Stalin had a severe stroke.Treatment would’ve been administered, except he had ordered all of the top physicians’ deaths. With his death begins the bureaucratic nightmare known as, “The Death of Stalin”.
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by Art Spiegelman
Fiction
A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history’s most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.
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by Gary Larson
Fiction
Enter the crème de la crème of inoffensive, apolitical, non-sequitur, single-panel comics. Gary Larson’s “The Far Side” enjoyed a popular run in newspapers from 1980 – 1995. The series often depicts surreal humor and anthropomorphic animals.
Book: BCCLS
Written by Alan Moore; illustrated by Dave Gibbons
Fiction
Alan Moore, the master of Graphic Novels, delivers to us a deconstruction of the ever popular superhero genre as well as an imaginative piece of alternate history where Richard Nixon is president for four terms.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
by Jason Reynolds
Fiction
As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn’s fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
