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Zinn, Howard
A People's History of American Empire : a Graphic Adaptation
A graphic adaptation of Zinn's landmark "A People's History of the United States" focusing on focusing on the cycles of U.S. imperialism and connections to the present day.
273 p. 2008
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Trondheim, Lewis
A.L.I.E.E.E.N. Archives of Lost Issues and Earthly Editions of Extraterrestrial Novelties
Beaten up, tattered, and weather worn, this volume has crossed through space to become the first extra-terrestrial comic book in print on earth. The language and even the alphabet are alien, but as human readers will soon discover, the themes and stories are universal. These interwoven stories and vignettes start out quite simply, but a darker, more complex side is gradually revealed as alien characters act out very human problems. Beneath its apparently childlike and cartoony style, A.L.I.E.E.E.N. explores human nature, cruelty, and kindness with surprising depth and loads of humor.
2006
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Yang, Gene Luen
American Born Chinese
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.
233 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
 Printz Medal Winners
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
The Perfect Holiday Gift: Books
Graphic Novels: Memoirs and History
Between Two Cultures
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Kibuishi, Kazu
Amulet. Book One The Stonekeeper
After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals. Together with a small mechanical rabbit named Miskit, they face the most terrifying monster of all, and Em finally has the chance to save someone she loves
185 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Graphic Novels
Best Books for Kids - October 2008
Book Trailers Autumn 2008
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Thompson, Craig
Blankets : an Illustrated Novel
Loosely based on the author's life, Blankets chronicles Craig's journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way.
582 p. 2003
Appears on the following book lists:
Guys in Love
Graphic Novels: Literature
Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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Pyle, Kevin C.
Blindspot
Dean and his friends have turned the woods behind their housing development into an area of operations for their army fantasy and spend hours lost in episodes of intrigue and danger. A scary encounter with a homeless man in the woods one night, however, changes everything.
2007
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Donner, Rebecca
Burnout
After Danni and her mother move in with her mother's alcoholic boyfriend, Danni wrestles with her own identity when she finds herself with a crush on her soon-to-be stepbrother, a hardcore environmentalist.
147 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
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Wilson, G. Willow
Cairo : a Graphic Novel
Set in bustling modern-day Cairo, this magical-realism thriller interweaves the lives of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, an Israeli soldier, and a genie as they navigate the city's streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hooka sought by a wrathful gangster-magician.
2007
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Dead High Yearbook
Eight intertwining tales about teenagers from the same school who die horrible deaths throughout the school year and come to rest somewhere between life and death.
78 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
CHS Booktalk List September 2009 - June 2010, Graphic Novels
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Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989
Dororo
Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a samurai general in Japan's Warring States period, promises to offer body parts of his unborn baby to 48 devils in exchange for complete domination of the country. Knowing the child to be deficient, Kagemitsu orders the newborn thrown into the river. Calling himself Hyakkimaru, he searches the world for the 48 demons. Each time he eliminates one, he retrieves one of his missing parts. Hyakkimaru meets a boy thief named Dororo, and together they travel the countryside, confronting mosters and ghosts again and again.
308 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Manga: Seinen and Shonen
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Willingham, Bill
Fables. 1001 Nights of Snowfall
Presents the backstories of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans.
140 p. 2006
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Gipi
Garage Band
Four boys with turbulent home lives find refuge in the music they play and their friendship, but when their only amp blows a fuse as their demo tape deadline nears, they decide to steal in order to replace it, setting off a chain of events that rapidly spiral out of control.
114 p. 2007
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Foglio, Phil
Girl Genius. [1] Agatha Heterodyne the Beetleburg Clank
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become all-out war, and Mad Science rules the world with mixed success, Agatha Clay, a student at Transylvania Polygnostic University is unable to build anything that actually works. However, when the University is overthrown, a strange clank stalks the streets, and it seems that Agatha may have a spark of Mad Science after all.
87 p. 2001
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Eldred, Tim
Grease Monkey
In a future world where mysterious aliens have advanced the intelligence of simians, young Robin Plotnik, apprenticed to a cranky gorilla supervisor, works on an Earth defense station and becomes entangled in a scandal over a bet about the planet's top fighter squadrons.
352 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Science Fiction
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Wood, Don
Into the Volcano : a Graphic Novel
While their parents are away doing research, brothers Duffy and Sumo Pugg go with their cousin, Mister Come-and-Go, to Kokalaha Island, where they meet Aunt Lulu and become trapped in an erupting volcano.
174 p. 2008
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Lat
Kampung Boy
Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.
141 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Multicultural - chapter books
Graphic Novels
Graphic Novels: Memoirs and History
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Abadzis, Nick
Laika
Laika was the abandoned puppy who grew up to become Earth's first space traveler. This is her story, from the streets of Moscow to the Soviet space program, and then to her fateful final journey on Sputnik 2, the journey that ended her life.
205 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Graphic Novels: Memoirs and History
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Abel, Jessica
Life Sucks
Life sucks when you're a baby-faced kid in LA -- broke, girlfriendless, and stuck in a dead-end job. Life sucks harder when that job is night manager at the Last Stop, LA's finest vampire-owned convenience store, and you're facing an eternity of restocking beef jerky and blood brew for Radu, your crappy boss and Vampire Master. It's bad enough that Dave pines for his days as a vegetarian, but when he finds himself competing with psychotic surfer-vamp Wes for the affections of Rosa, a beautiful mortal with a fixation on the dark side, unlife really gets complicated.
186 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Vampire Love
Graphic Novels: Literature
Quick and Easy
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Helfer, Andrew
Malcolm X : a Graphic Biography
With the thoroughly researched and passionately drawn Malcolm X, Andrew Helfer and award-winning artist Randy DuBurke capture Malcolm Little's extraordinary transformation from a black youth beaten down by Jim Crow America into Malcolm X, the charismatic, controversial, and doomed national spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
102 p. 2006
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Pak, Greg
Marvel 1602. New World
When Captain America was thrust back in time, it changed reality as we know it. Dinosaurs still roam the Earth, and the super heroes we know cam to exist 500 years early. Witness David Bruce Banner and Peter Parquagh become the Hulk and Spider-Man.
120 p. 2006
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