Summary: Maia Kobabe (who uses e/em/eir pronouns) writes this moving autobiography of finding eirself. Covering everything from crushes, how to come out to family and the world at large, and explaining what it means to be non-binary and asexual. A wonderful memoir on what it means to find and live as your most authentic self.
Middle-schooler Callie juggles drama both on and off stage in this winning and fun title about friendship, crushes, musical theater, and finding oneself, by the same author of the popular and award-winning Smile.
Every summer, Awago Beach is a refuge for Rose and her family, but this summer everything feels different. This award-winning graphic novel is an affecting story of friendship, family, secrets, and being on cusp between childhood and adolescence.
This volume contains parts 1 and 2 of Satrapi's best-selling memoir, which relates in graphic novel form the story of the author’s childhood and young adult years in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution. A film version of this book came out in 2007.
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel is considered by many to be one of the best of the genre. It recounts the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes. A film version came out in 2009.
Based on memories noted in her childhood journal, comic artist Bechdel documents her unusual childhood with darkly humorous drawings and text. Her closeted gay father ran a funeral home and died (a probable suicide) just as she was coming out as a lesbian.
Yaichi lives a normal life in Tokyo with his daughter Natsuki, until the day a Canadian man shows up at his door, claiming to be his brother’s husband. In closeted Japan, this book opens up borders and boundaries. Yaichi learns to share his brother’s childhood with this stranger, and also learns to deal with a gay brother-in-law. A humorous book that shows how change can happen slowly.
A great middle grade graphic novel about best friends coming together to fight the stigma surrounding menstruation, normalize it, and take action to make tampons and pads accessible in the school restrooms. This is an informative as well as an uplifting story regarding the power of friendship. A section at the end, "How to be a Period Activist", gives tangible examples of how to become a period activist.
