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1) Portugal
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the acclaimed Equinoxes comes a return to roots that serves as spiritual renewal. Comics artist Simon Muchat is stuck. Suffering writer's block, uninspired, vegetating as a school art teacher, he is losing direction and his taste for life, until one day he is invited to appear at a comic's convention in Portugal, the country his family came from and which he hadn't seen since his childhood. Even though he is a foreigner there, so...
4) Monster mess
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Peter and Jean draw Oko, a bad monster that comes to life and creates havoc, and then draw a good monster to defeat Oko and clean up the mess.
5) Grandpa bug
Author
Series
Ernest and Rebecca volume 3
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
,2012
Language
English
Description
"Sent to the countryside to spend the summer with her grandparents, Rebecca misses her parents and her germ best friend, Ernest, but makes friends with a dog named Missile and spends time with her grandfather, known as 'Grandpa Bug'" -- Vendor record.
6) Illegal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
,2012
Language
English
Description
"Sent to the countryside to spend the summer with her grandparents, Rebecca misses her parents and her germ best friend, Ernest, but makes friends with a dog named Missile and spends time with her grandfather, known as 'Grandpa Bug'" -- Vendor record.
8) Hey, kiddo
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Shares the author's upbringing in a family grappling with addiction and how he used art to survive.
Author
Series
Monster (Lewis Trondheim) volume 4
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
What could possibly go wrong when Jean, Petey, Kriss, Mom and Dad take a vacation in the country? Would you believe they wind up on a fearsome farm where all the animals have mutated into horrible monsters? Watch and scream (and laugh!) as colossal cows, outrageously over-sized chickens, pigs of preposterous proportions, dangerously deadly ducks, frightening fish, and a tremendous, terrifying turkey turn a fun family vacation into a never-ending nightmare!...
10) Lo and behold
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting with who she's always been"--
11) Old souls
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Chris Olsen has a good life. He has a regular job, a wife and daughter who love him, and a promising future. By any measure this is a good life, but it isn't his first. When a troubling encounter with a homeless man triggers something inside Chris, memories of his past lives bubble to the surface. A lost Chinese boy, a wailing grandmother, and a love so powerful it never left his soul--all compete for his attention. Chris sinks deep into the seedy...
12) Stone fruit
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties -- Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother...
13) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
14) Yotsuba&!: 13
Author
Series
Yotsuba&! volume 13
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh off the excitement of her camping trip, Yotsuba initiates a very productive session of sandbox play in which she instructs Fuuka how to properly run a bakery. But even more exciting is a visit from Grandma! Yotsuba learns how to value and enjoy cleaning, how not to be rude when hoping for souvenirs, and most important, how to cope when Grandma leaves. But don't worry, she'll be back someday!"--Publisher.
15) Sisters
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Raina can't wait to be a big sister, but once Amara is born she realises things won't be quite what she had expected. Despite Amara's cuteness, she is a cranky, grouchy baby. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years but when their family starts to change, they realise they must figure out how to get along like real sisters.
Author
Series
Monster (Lewis Trondheim) volume 1
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Petey and Jean love to draw monsters. They create Oko, a frightening monster who escapes from the sheet of paper and disappears into their house. All they need to do now is create a nice monster that eats bad ones. So they draw a nice monster named Kriss with three legs, four arms and ten mouths to eat the bad monster. The plan works and they decide to keep Kriss as the family's new pet monster. For Christmas, Jean & Peter go on vacation to the mountains...
17) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Korea to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental health...
18) Pashmina
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Indian-American teen, Priyanka "Pri" Das, attempts to reconnect with her mother's homeland through a magical pashmina shawl. Presented in comic book format.
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions and the topic of India is permanently closed. For...
Author
Series
My brother's husband volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and...
Author
Publisher
Charmz, an imprint of Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
By now, you all know Chloe "Misty" Blin, the breakout middle school star of her own Charmz graphic novel series. Now, get to know the origin story of the Blin family feline, the mischievous Cartoon! Cartoon arrives as a three-month-old kitten to the Blin household many years ago, back when an excitable Chloe is not embarrassed to be called Misty and before her brother Arthur is born. Chloe's dad is not as excited to share his house with a cat. Little...
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