Biography & Memoir
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Uprooted: A Memoir about What Happens When Your Family Moves Back
$22.99 Read morePerfect for fans of New Kid and A First Time for Everything, a joyful and tearful debut middle grade graphic memoir about one girl being uprooted when she moves to Hong Kong, a place where her family
- Author: Chan, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1250855330
- Language: English
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Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty
$21.95 Add to cartJoyous musings on the meaningful and the mundane for troubled times.
In her debut graphic novel, Sarah Firth ponders some of life’s deepest philosophical questions: Why are we here? How are we suppos
- Author: Firth, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1637790686
- Language: English
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Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison — And How We Stayed Connected
$24.99 Add to cartA stunning graphic novel memoir about growing up with an incarcerated parent.
” …Your dad is coming back home.”
As far back as nine-year-old Jay Jay Patton can remember, her dad, Antoine has been in p
- Author: Patton, Jay Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1546128379
- Language: English
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A Fire Story (Updated and Expanded Edition)
$18.99 Read moreFrom celebrated author and illustrator Brian Fies comes the graphic novel A Fire Story, a firsthand account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017–revised and expanded.
“Fies brilliantly enlist- Author: Fies, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1419746820
- Language: English
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Big Apple Diaries
$22.99 Read moreIn Big Apple Diaries, a heartfelt diary-style graphic memoir by Alyssa Bermudez, a young New Yorker doodles her way through middle school–until the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack leaves her won
- Author: Bermudez, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1250774276
- Language: English
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Santiago!: Santiago Ramón Y Cajal!artist, Scientist, Troublemaker
$14.99 Read moreA graphic novel retelling of the inspiring true story of polymath Santiago Ram?n y Cajal, visionary pioneer of modern neuroscience, and his early dreams of becoming an artist.
Based on a true story, S- Author: Hosler, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0823454894
- Language: English
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Action Presidents: John F. Kennedy!
$11.99 Read more“A delightful, educational spin on history–and plenty of jokes,” said School Library Journal.
“Sheer joy,” praised Booklist in a starred review.
Finalist for the 2019 Excellence in Graphic Literatur
- Series: Action Presidents #4
- Author: Van Lente, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 006289126X
- Language: English
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Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with Ocd
$13.99 Add to cartGrowing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with that condition in a graphic-novel memoir that is as funny as it is powerfully candid and openhearted… [more below]
- Author: Cooke, Pan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 059361562X
- Language: English
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Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with Ocd
$23.99 Add to cartGrowing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with that condition in a graphic-novel memoir that is as funny as it is powerfully candid and openhearted… [more below]
- Author: Cooke, Pan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593615611
- Language: English
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Voice for Refuge
$14.99 Add to cartZaynab Abdi chronicles her journey from Somalia to Yemen and ultimately the United States, where she shares a stage with Malala and becomes a voice for refuge. Her graphic memoir is told in both Engli… [more below]
- Series: Our Stories Carried Us Here
- Author: Abdi, Zaynab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 194952325X
- Language: English
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Lebron James: Athletes Who Made a Difference
$9.99 Read moreLeBron James has been the face of men’s basketball since he first stepped onto the court. In addition to winning four NBA Championships, ten trips to the NBA finals, and two Olympic gold medals, he ha
- Series: Athletes Who Made a Difference
- Author: Anderson, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765627990
- Language: English
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Bessie Coleman: Daring Stunt Pilot
$8.99 Read moreFor fast-paced true tales of extraordinary lives, turn to this series. These graphic novel format biographies inspire, entertain, and inform readers about individuals who have made significant contrib… [more below]
- Series: Graphic Library: Graphic Biographies
- Author: Robbins, Trina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 073687903X
- Language: English
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The Great Explorer of Mammoth Cave: A Graphic Novel Biography of Stephen Bishop
$8.99 Read moreMammoth Cave, a National Park in Brownsville, Kentucky, is the world’s largest cavern with more than 400 miles of cavern space. The first to explore the cave was an enslaved Black man, Stephen Bishop…. [more below]
- Series: Barrier Breakers
- Author: Pryor, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669061949
- Language: English
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Avicenna and the Book of Medicine
$10.99 Read moreAvicenna, also known as Ibn Sina, was a physician and philosopher in an era known as the Islamic Golden Age. When he was not working as a healer in the courts of different rulers, he collected the bes
- Series: Graphic Science Biographies
- Author: Dolz, Jordi Bayarri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1728478286
- Language: English
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Great Lives in Graphics: Mozart
$14.99 Add to cartGreat Lives in Graphics: Mozart is a graphic retelling of Mozart’s story which gives children a colorful snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while educating them on everything from the h… [more below]
- Series: Great Lives in Graphics
- Author: Books, Button
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 178708115X
- Language: English
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Jesse Owens: Athletes Who Made a Difference
$8.99 Read moreIn 1936, Adolf Hitler attempted to make the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, a showcase of Nazi superiority with a new stadium and the first television broadcast of the Games. He didn’t account for A
- Series: Athletes Who Made a Difference
- Author: Hoena, Blake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1728402956
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom
$19.99 Read moreThis illuminating graphic novel biography about Harriet Tubman sheds new light on one of American history’s bravest heroes.
Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped sl- Series: Center for Cartoon Studies Presents
- Author: Taylor, Whit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0759555508
- Language: English
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The Great Explorer of Mammoth Cave: A Graphic Novel Biography of Stephen Bishop
$36.65 Add to cartMammoth Cave, a National Park in Brownsville, Kentucky, is the world’s largest cavern with more than 400 miles of cavern space. The first to explore the cave was an enslaved Black man, Stephen Bishop…. [more below]
- Series: Barrier Breakers
- Author: Pryor, Shawn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669061760
- Language: English
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Great Lives in Graphics: Nikola Tesla
$14.99 Read moreGreat Lives in Graphics; Nikola Tesla is a graphic retelling of Nikola’s story which gives children a colorful snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while educating them on everything from… [more below]
- Series: Great Lives in Graphics
- Author: Books, Button
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1787081133
- Language: English
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Chasing Dreams, Becoming a Doctor
$14.99 Add to cartThis unique English-Khmer bilingual graphic memoir starts and ends in Cambodia for a girl who will inspire readers to hold on to their dreams.
Kim Uy and her parents waited 15 years in Cambodia before… [more below]
- Series: Our Stories Carried Us Here #3
- Author: Uy, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1732790671
- Language: English
