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Banned Book Club
I picked this graphic novel because the name stood out to me at first. The idea that books or reading could be banned is very intriguing and I wanted to [...]
Author: Kim Hyun Sook
Publisher: Iron Circus Comics
Genre: Graphic Novel
They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei
They Called Us Enemy
George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy investigates the violation of Japanese Americans’ rights during WWII through Executive Order 9066. Within the first 25 [...]
Author: George Takei
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Genre: Graphic Novel
Amazons, Abolitionists, & Activists, by Mikki Kendall
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists, by Mikki Kendall, is about the struggles women have faced while trying to achieve equality. Kendall tells the [...]
Author: Mikki Kendall
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Genre: Graphic Novel
Brave, by Svetlana Chmakova
Brave
While the graphic novel Brave, by Svetlana Chmakova, talks about the experience of one child being bullied for being “nerdy,” the effects of bullying for [...]
Author: Svetlana Chmakova
Publisher: JY
Genre: Graphic Novel
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, by Don Brown
The Unwanted
I chose to read the graphic novel The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, which was about Syrian refugees. This novel told stories about Syrians [...]
Author: Don Brown
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Genre: Graphic Novel
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Connie Colwell Miller
Rosa Parks and The Montgomery Bus Boycott
While looking for a new graphic novel I wanted to choose a topic I have always thought was fascinating. Coming across a graphic novel on Rosa Parks, I knew [...]
Author: Connie Colwell Miller
Publisher: Capstone Press
Genre: Graphic Novel
Martin Luther King & the Montgomery Story, by Alfred Hassler
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
I decided to read the graphic novel Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, written by Alfred Hassler and Benton Resnik. I found this graphic novel [...]
Author: Alfred Hassler and Benton Resnik
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Genre: Graphic Novel
Maus, by Art Spiegelman
Maus
The graphic novel Maus, by Art Spiegelman, depicts an insightful yet comedic storyline of Spiegelman’s father being interviewed on his time as a Holocaust [...]
Author: Art Spiegelman
Publisher: Pantheon
Genre: Graphic Novel
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, by Penelope Bagnieu
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
I enjoyed how the author, Pénélope Bagieu, selected the heroines in her novel Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World. Some of them are well known and [...]
Author: Pénélope Bagieu
Publisher: First Second
Genre: Graphic Novel
Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science, by Philippe Squarzoni
Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science
The format for Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science, by Philippe Squarzoni, could have been improved in the storytelling aspect, but was [...]
Author: Philippe Squarzoni
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Genre: Graphic Novel