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Churchill: A Graphic Biography
Complex enough for adults seeking entrée into the Churchill mystique while also great reading for historically minded teens down through middle-schoolers.
Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës
Greenberg not only shows how the juvenile “scribblemania” of the Brontës prefigured later literary accomplishments, such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, but also crafts a story that resonates within our own century. Engrossing for both adults and teens attracted to alt-history fantasy or the Brontës. (See also, Catherynne M. Valente’s The Glass Town Game, SLJ 6/17.)
Afrofuturism and More: Top Graphic Novels for February, Black History Month, and Beyond
Boost your displays with these 20 diverse graphic works across genres.
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EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest
Long before diversity became a buzzword and rallying cry throughout publishing, the notorious EC Comics sneaked socially conscious stories about civil rights and justice for minorities into its 1950s sensationalist anthologies...
BTTM FDRS
Escaping her upwardly mobile parents, Darla moves back to their old neighborhood in Chicago’s Bottomyards to find bare-bones housing where she can grow her design business on the cheap...
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James Brown: Black and Proud
“The Godfather of Soul” came to fame during the 1960s civil rights movement...
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The Be-Bop Barbarians: Comic Book Bohemians to a 1950s Jazz Beat
In 1955 Harlem, three African American comikkers battle Cold War politics, prejudice, and temptation...
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Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holliday
Known for her recording of “Strange Fruit,” a lyrical ballad about lynchings, Billie Holiday became one of the greatest jazz singers of all time despite a troubled life of poverty, jail, violence, discrimination, ill-fated love, and substance abuse...
Sleepless
The illegitimate daughter of the late King of Harbeny, Lady “Poppy” Pyppenia would like nothing better than to retire from court...