Title: Persepolis Author(s): Marjane Satrapi Artist(s): Marjane Satrapi Category: Autobiographical Languages: French, English, German, Finnish, Italian, Indonesian, Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Czech, Polish, Danish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Thai, Hebrew, Japanese, Hungarian, Korean Grade Level(s): 9-12 Mature Content?: Violence Synopsis: Persepolis is an autobiographical account, telling the story of the Islamic Revolution in Iran through Satrapi’s eyes, […]
Title: Footnotes in Gaza Author(s): Joe Sacco Artist(s): Joe Sacco Category: True, War, Politics Languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, French, Indonesian, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, German, Swedish, Polish Grade Level(s): 9-12 Mature Content?: graphic violence, language Synopsis: Footnotes in Gaza serves as a companion piece to Joe Sacco’s Palestine. For this graphic novel, he went into […]
Title: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea Author(s): Guy Delisle Artist(s): Guy Delisle Category: True Languages: English, French, Spanish, Finnish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Croatian, Swedish, Polish, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Danish, Norwegian Grade Level(s): 6-12 Mature Content?: No Synopsis: Pyongyang follows the story of Guy Delisle, an animator contracted to work in North Korea […]
Title: War Brothers: The Graphic Novel Author(s): Sharon E. McKay Artist(s): Daniel Lefrance Category: Based-On, War, Child Soldiers Languages: English Grade Level(s):7-12 Mature Content?: Violence, Implied Rape Synopsis: Based on interviews conducted in Uganda, War Brothers: The Graphic Novel is a fictionalized account of child soldiers in Africa. McKay initially wrote the story as an […]
Title: Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War Author(s): Michel Chikwanine & Jessica Dee Humphreys Artist(s): Claudia Davila Category: Biographical, War Languages: English Grade Level(s): 4-8 Mature Content?: Violence, Implied Rape Synopsis: Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War brings Michel Chikwanine’s story to life as an easy to understand graphic novel. […]
Title: Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival Author(s): Joe Kubert Artist(s): Joe Kubert Category: Biographical, War Languages: English, Czech, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Polish Grade Level(s): 9-12 Mature Content?: Violence, Rape, Sexual Assault Synopsis: Joe Kubert’s celebrated Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival is a gripping, eminently readable tale. In 1992, as Serbia […]
Title: Rurouni Kenshin Author(s): Nobuhiro Watsuki Artist(s): Nobuhiro Watsuki Category: Based-On Languages: Japanese, English, Spanish, Indonesian, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Polish Grade Level(s): 7-12 Mature Content?: Violence, some graphic. Synopsis: Following the story of a wandering samurai, or ronin, Rurouni Kenshin tells a fictionalized, but historically based tale of the struggles of the Meiji […]
Title: March Author(s): John Lewis and Andrew Aydin Artist(s): Nate Powell Category: Autobiographical Languages: English, French (Books 1 & 2), Italian (Book 1) Grade Level(s): 7-12 Mature Content?: Racist Language, Violence Synopsis: March is the three part, graphic novel autobiography of Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis’s life. It begins all the way back […]
Title: Boxers & Saints Author(s): Gene Luen Yang Artist(s): Gene Luen Yang Category: Based-On Languages: English, French Grade Level(s): 9-12 Mature Content?: Violence Synopsis: Boxers & Saints is series of two parallel graphic novels, exploring two sides of the Boxer Rebellion in China. Boxers follows the story and perspective of Little Bao, a rural Chinese […]
Title: Pride of Baghdad Author(s): Brian K. Vaughn Artist(s): Niko Henrichon Category: Based-On a True Story, Politics, War Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Czech, Farsi, German, Turkish, Norwegian, Greek Grade Level(s): 7-12 Mature Content?: Graphic Violence, Language Synopsis: In April of 2003, four lions escaped from the zoo in Baghdad, Iraq during a US […]
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