Gaijin by Matt Faulkner

San Francisco, 1941: America has just declared war on Japan. With a white mother and a Japanese father, Koji Miyamoto quickly learns that his home is no longer a welcoming one. Streetcars won't stop for Koji, and his classmates accuse him of being an enemy spy. When a letter arrives from the government notifying him that he must go to a relocation center for Japanese Americans, he and his mother are forced to leave everything they know behind. Once there, Koji soon discovers that being half white in the internment camp is just as difficult as being half Japanese in San Francisco. Koji's story, based on true events, is brought to life by Matt Faulkner's cinematic illustrations, which reveal Koji struggling to find his place in a tumultuous world—one where he is a prisoner of war in his own country. 

Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

Ebo is alone.  His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be crazy to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life―the same journey their sister set out on months ago.

Drama by Raina Telgemeier

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I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina

As he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun, and he shoots Alfonso. When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he’s on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world.

March, Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

Congressman John Lewis is one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy. March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.

Wires and Nerves, Volume 1; Wires and Nerves, Volume 2, Gone Rogue; by Marissa Meyer

Volume 1:  When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. With appearances by Cinder and the rest of the Rampion crew, this is a must-have for fans of the series.

All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson

Imogen has been homeschooled all her life; now, at 11, she’s headed to public school. In her first weeks, she falls victim to the wiles of a mean girl, hurts a girl who might have been a good friend, and throws her younger brother’s treasured stuffed animal into the lake.

Wires and Nerve, Volume 1 by Marissa Meyer

A muted palette of black and denim blue lends a bleak, sooty undertone to the world of Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles in this graphic novel spinoff.

Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash

All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort.

Anne Frank: the Anne Frank House authorized graphic biography by Sidney Jacobson

Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón have created the first authorized and exhaustive graphic biography of Anne Frank.