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• Messy Roots

  A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American

  Gao, Laura

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  Laura illustrates her coming-of-age as the girl who simply wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why girls make her heart flutter. Insightful, original, and hilarious, toggling seamlessly between past and present,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maybe an Artist

  A Graphic Memoir

  Montague, Liz

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  This brilliant, laugh-out-loud graphic memoir offers a fresh perspective on life and social issues and proves that you don’t need to be a dead white man to find success in art.

• Dreamer

  An Original Graphic Memoir

  Aliu, Akim • Elysée, Greg Anderson

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  Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence he often experienced both on and off the ice.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homebody

  A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration-A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist

  Parish, Theo

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  Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken gender binary rules of high school, to the intersection of gender identity and sexuality and through tiny everyday moments that all led up to Theo finding the term…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Halfway There

  A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery

  Mari, Christine

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  A Japanese American college student reconnects with her roots in Tokyo, Japan, while wrestling with feelings of loneliness, depression, and cultural identity confusion.

• I Was Their American Dream

  A Graphic Memoir

  Gharib, Malaka

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  Brings to life teenage antics and illuminates earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. Malaka's story is a heartfelt…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Layers

  A Memoir

  Bagieu, Pénélope

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  Bagieu reflects on her childhood and teen years with her characteristic wit and unflinching honesty. The result is fifteen short stories about friendship, love, grief, and those awkward first steps toward adulthood.

• Numb to This

  Memoir of a Mass Shooting

  Neely, Kindra

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  Author Kindra Neely recounts her journey to healing after surviving a mass shooting during her first year of college.

• Spellbound

  A Graphic Memoir

  Som, Bishakh

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  This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she would have us see her, that is, as she sees herself. Framed with a candid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Almost American Girl

  A Graphic Memoir

  Ha, Robin

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  A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life.

• The Fire Never Goes Out

  A Memoir in Pictures, A Graphic Memoir

  Stevenson, ND

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  In a collection of essays and personal mini-comics that span eight years of his young adult life, author-illustrator ND Stevenson charts the highs and lows of being a creative human in the world.

• Still Stace

  My Gay Christian Coming-of-Age Story — An Illustrated Memoir

  Chomiak, Stacey

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  Is it possible to be gay and Christian? Chomiak tells the true story of her teenage and young-adult years of heartbreak, family conflict, trying to become ex-gay, wrestling with her faith, and finding love.

• The Prison Island

  A Graphic Memoir

  Frakes, Colleen

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  Prison Island tells the story of a typical girl growing up in atypical circumstances using stark, engaging graphic novel panels. It's a story that is simultaneously familiar and foreign, and readers will be surprised to see parts of themselves in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tomboy

  A Graphic Memoir

  Prince, Liz

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  From staunchly refuting anything she perceived as being "girly" to the point of misogyny, to discovering through the punk community that your identity is whatever you make of it, regardless of your gender, Tomboy is as much humorous and honest as it…Read moreRead more of this annotation