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2019 Top Ten (11) Best Graphic Books for Teens

5/9/2019

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Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby High School Library collection.
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Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation – Anne Frank (author), Ari Folman and David Polonsky (Illustrator) – This is the first graphic edition of Anne Frank's diary; a young girls poignant writings during her years of hiding in Amsterdam. This beautiful retelling is a feast for the eyes. Anne Frank's story, already so powerful and unforgettable is brought to life in full color. Even if you have read and reread her story, you will be drawn to this new version. (GRA 921 Frank)


Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt With Family Addiction – Jarrett Krosoczka – This is a memoir about being raised by grandparents and finding art as a way of communicating and self-expression while dealing with family addiction and absenteeism. (GRA 921/Krosczka)
 

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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees – Don Brown – This minimalist text takes a journalistic approach to describing the political and social implications of the Syrian refugee crisis It features the stories of individual refugees, while also focusing on local and global trends contributing to the crisis. (GRA 956.9104/Bro)

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Crush – Svetlana Chmakova – Perfectly capturing the challenges of friendship drama and the anguish of first crushes in middle school, this is the story of Jorge Ruiz, sweet, gentle, and strong, who is crushing on Jazmine, strong, kind, and intelligent. Jorge must navigate his friendships and romantic interests and the drama that ensues.

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​Illegal – Eoin Colfer (author), Andrew Donkin (author), Giovanni Rigano (Illustrator) – Ebo's older sister left Ghana and now his brother has disappeared, leaving a note saying he's taking the arduous journey to Europe to seek a better life. Alone and refusing to be left behind, Ebo catches up with his brother so they can make the trip together, living on the streets, negotiating with human smugglers, and struggling to survive.


My Brother’s Husband (Vol. 2) – Gengoroh Tagame – Yaichi has been struggling to fully understand and accept his brother's husband, Mike. Spending time together during Mike's visit to Japan, Yaichi and his daughter realize just how important he is to their family
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On a Sunbeam – Tillie Walden – Mia becomes the newest member on a ship that travels through space reconstructing historical ruins for new use. Though quiet and unsure of herself, she fits in with the crew and eventually reveals her true purpose for taking the job; finding her lost love.
 


​Royal City (Vol. 2): Sonic Youth – Jeff Lemire – In volume one, the story of the Pike family is set up with older brother Patrick Pike returning to his childhood home in the wake of his father's stroke and his brother’s death. In this volume, the reader is taken back to the year 1993, following the then-teenaged Pike siblings and glimpsing the last week of Tommy Pike's life.
 

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​Royal City (Vol. 3): We All Float On – Jeff Lemire – The final volume of this series brings readers a thoughtful and unique exploration of loss, grief, family, and acceptance.

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Silver Spoon (Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4) – Hiromu Arakawa – Yuugo Hachiken has always been a great student, but instead of going to a regular academic high school, he decides to enroll in Ooezo Agricultural High School instead. This city boy was hoping to coast through high school, and an agricultural school is sure to be easy, right? Wrong! Instead of doing math problems, and reciting poetry, he's waking up at 5:00 A.M. to do chores, raise piglets and learn to ride a horse.

Speak: The Graphic Novel – Laurie Halse Anderson (author) and Emily Carroll (Illustrator) – Melinda is shunned at school because she called the cops at a summer party, but what everyone doesn't know is that she was sexual assaulted there. In this beautifully illustrated graphic adaptation of the original novel, Melinda works on coming to terms with what happened to her and learning how to speak about it.

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2018 Top ten graphic books for teens

5/10/2018

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​The Backstagers – James Tynion IV – Jory, a new student at an all-boys school, feels left out of school life until he stumbles upon the backstage crew of the drama club and the mysterious tunnels they keep watch over.

Black Hammer, Volume 1: Secret Origins – Jeff Lemire – Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien are trapped! In their old lives they were superheroes, but because of a strange occurrence in their multiverse they are thrust into life in a rural town from which they cannot escape.

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Brave – Svetlana Chmakova – Jensen, a daydreaming artist obsessed with sunspots and NASA, navigates middle school, bullies and math!


 
I Am Alfonso Jones – Tony Medina – Fifteen year old Alfonso Jones is shot by the police while shopping for a suit, and his loved ones and classmates are left behind to address his death and the larger issue of police brutality.

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Jonesy (Volumes 1, 2, and 3) – Sam Humprhies – Jonsey's superpower is that she can make anyone fall in love with anything... except herself!
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation – Damian Duffy and Octavia E. Butler – It's 1976 and Dana is trying to settle down to a comfortable life with her husband when she finds herself unexpectedly ripped from the present and sent hurtling to the slavery-era past. Here, she is tasked with saving the life of her ancestor, lest she risk never being born.


 
Lighter than My Shadow – Katie Green – The author's personal account of the eating disorders she developed in an attempt to manage the black scribbles of her inner thoughts. Green candidly recounts both her steps and missteps along her path to recovery.
 
 
 
 

 

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My Brother’s Husband – Gengoroh Tagame – After the passing of Ryoji, his twin brother, Yaichi, and his now widowed husband, Mike, come together to learn more about the loved one they have both lost.

 
 
 
 

 


Pashmina – Nidhi Chanani – Priyanka discovers in her mother's belongings a magical pashmina that leads her on a journey to India, where she seeks to understand secrets of her family and to claim her own personal identity.

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​Spill Zone – Scott Westerfeld – An event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie three years ago, forever changing reality within its borders. When an eccentric collector makes a million-dollar offer, Addison breaks her own hard-learned rules of survival and ventures farther into the Spill Zone than she has ever dared.

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2017 Top Ten Graphic Novels for Teens

8/23/2017

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Giant Days – John Allison and Lissa Treiman
  • Giant Days, Volume 1 - Giant Days is an entertaining, slice-of-life look at three friends away at university,
  • Giant Days, Volume 2 - Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends because their dorm rooms were next to each other. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves.
​Black Panther:  A Nation Under Our Feet (Black Panther  series 2016 – Book 1) – Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze - Confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group calling itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil. Author Interview
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Mighty Jack, Book 1 – Ben Hatke  – Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day at the flea market, Maddy does talk—to tell Jack to trade their mom's car for a box of mysterious seeds. It's the best mistake Jack has ever made. (Book Review)
Plutona- Books #1 - #5 – Jeff Lemire and Emi Lennox – Five kids discover the body of the world’s greatest super hero, Plutona, in the woods after school one day. This discovery sends them on a dark journey that will threaten to tear apart their friendship and their lives.

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March: Book Three – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell – By the fall of 1963, as chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is right in the thick of the Civil Rights movement. With the stakes continuing to rise, white supremacists intensify their opposition through government obstruction and civilian terrorist attacks.  Across the South African-Americans are still blatantly prohibited from voting.  Book Trailer
Filmish:  a Graphic Journey Through Film – Edward Ross – In Filmish, cartoonist Edward Ross takes his readers on an
exhilarating ride through the history of cinema, using comics to uncover the magic and mechanics behind our favorite movies.  
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Prez, Volume 1:  Corndog in Chief – Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, and Mark Morales - Oregon teen Beth Ross has just been elected President of the United States of America. Age restrictions were abolished when corporations gained the right to run for office and voting booths have been replaced by Twitter, making just about anyone eligible for the nation’s top job, including the viral-video-famous Corndog Girl!
orange: The Complete Collection 1 – Ichigo Takano – On the day that Naho begins 11th grade, she recieves a letter from herself ten years in the future. At first, she writes it off as a prank, but as the letter’s predictions come true one by one Naho realizes that the letter might be the real deal.

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​Paper Girls, Volume 1 – Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang - In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.  Book Trailer
We Stand on Guard – Brian K. Vaughan, Steve Skroce, and Matt Hollingsworth - Set 100 years in our future, We Stand on Guard follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned freedom fighters who must defend their homeland from invasion by a technologically superior opponent...the United States of America.   Book Review
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