Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence
By: Joel Christian Gill
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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1. Swallow Me Whole
By: Nate Powell
3.63
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Swallow Me Whole is an award-winning love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucina… read more
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2. I Am Alfonso Jones
By: John Jennings , Stacey Robinson , None
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Alfonso Jones can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classi… read more
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- graphic novels
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3. Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
By: Geoffrey Canada
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Recreating his childhood world in the South Bronx and examining current crime legislation, the auth… read more
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- biography
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4. Petrograd
By: Tyler Crook , Philip Gelatt
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Introducing the untold tale of the international conspiracy behind the murder of Gregorii Rasputin … read more
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5. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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6. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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7. Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy.… read more
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"I AM WHO I AM IN SPITE OF MY MOTHER, BUT I ALSO AM WHO I AM BECAUSE OF HER."-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
"I NOW KNOW WHAT JOE MEANT WHEN HE ALWAYS SAID THAT HIS PARENTS WOULD'VE LOVED ME."-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
"I AM NOW LIVING OUT MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS OF MAKING A LIVING AS AN AUTHOR AND AN ARTIST, BUT IT IS A GREATER TRIUMPH FOR ME TO HAVE CREATED A STABLE, LOVING HOME WITH MY WIFE."-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
"When you're a kid and a teen, you're not in control of your circumstances. But the beautiful thing about growing up is that you get to create your own reality and your own family. That family might b…"-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
8. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting
By: Kindra Neely
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more
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9. Be Prepared
By: Vera Brosgol
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and hilarious middle-grade summer camp memoir from the author of Anya's Ghost. All Ve… read more
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10. Lunar New Year Love Story
By: Gene Luen Yang
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more
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11. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel
By: Archie Bongiovanni
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more
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12. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
By: Elizabeth Partridge
4.53
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
By: Harold Schechter
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Kill… read more
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14. Banned Book Club
By: Kim Hyun Sook
3.97
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her … read more
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"In times like this, no act is apolitical."-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
"Everyone has a right to the truth. But I don't owe you mine."-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
"But you can learn a lot about history by figuring out what people wanted to hide."-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
"But if they're going to keep calling us communists, we might as well learn what that means!"-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
15. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)
By: Lewis Hancox
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more
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16. Paper Planes
By: Jennie Wood
3.66
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Ca… read more
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17. Every Day: The Graphic Novel
By: David Levithan
3.66
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A graphic novel adaptation of the groundbreaking, beloved New York Times-bestselling novel about a … read more
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18. Punching Bag
By: Rex Ogle
4.49
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated… read more
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19. Sunshine: A Graphic Novel
By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
4.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary--and extraordinarily powerful--follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoc… read more
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- memoir
- teen
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- comics
- nonfiction
20. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
By: Derf Backderf
4.47
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex… read more
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21. Brooms
By: Jasmine Walls
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more
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22. Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
By: Sarah Myer
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Eisner Award Nomination: Best Publication for Teens "A beautiful, courageous book.” Gene Luen Y… read more
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23. Our Little Secret
By: Emily Carrington
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize At 15, Emily is a relatively typical teenage girl… read more
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24. Frontera
By: Julio Anta
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Mateo makes the dangerous journey back home to the United States through the Sonoran Desert with th… read more
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25. Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
By: Damian Duffy
3.99
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to #1 New York Times Bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, comes Octavia E.… read more
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26. 49 Days
By: Agnes Lee
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Day 1 Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what’… read more
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27. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair
By: Lucy Knisley
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Library Binding
WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more
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28. Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence
By: Joel Christian Gill
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chroniclin… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas hav… read more
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30. The Awakening of Malcolm X
By: Ilyasah Shabazz
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in ja… read more
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31. Off Season
By: James Sturm
3.54
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Rage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see, taste, and feel. H… read more
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