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2) 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...
Author
Series
Lou! volume 4
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Lou and her friends find romance when they spend summer vacation at a posh beach house, while Lou's mother travels on a book tour for her new science fiction novel.
4) Oksi
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Poorling is a little bear. She's a bit different from her brothers. Mother keeps their family safe. For the Forest is full of dangers. It is there that Mana lives, with her Shadow children. And above them all, Emuu, the great Grandma in the Sky"--
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Bechdel nos describe la relación con su madre, una mujer muy especial: lectora voraz, amante de la música, apasionada actriz amateur y esposa infeliz a causa de la homosexualidad de su marido, una mujer cuyas aspiraciones artísticas crecieron coincidiendo con la infancia de Alison. Con un estilo conmovedor a la vez que agudo, Bechdel busca respuestas a su infancia en este maravilloso recorrido por su vida."--
Author
Series
Hildafolk volume 6
Publisher
Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After swearing she will never sneak out again, Hilda wakes up to find herself in the body of a troll.
Author
Series
Lou! volume 3
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Lou finds it confusing and difficult to be thirteen, especially with her mother and Richard's romance heating up, being separated from her best friend Mina at school, and getting another letter from Paul when she never answered the first one.
Author
Series
Hildafolk volume 5
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Hilda is hardly at home anymore, seeking days filled with excitement and her mother can't help but worry. In a moment of tension, the pair find themselves flung far away into a mysterious, dark forest-- the land of the trolls! Can they work together to escape the clutches of these sinister stone creatures? -- page 4 of cover.
9) 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
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Shares the author's experiences as an only child born to a single mother in Korea, who abruptly moved to the United States as a teenager and the difficulties she had fitting in in both countries.
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