Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds Manga History by Art Spiegelman Library The author-illustrator traces his father’s Fullmetal Alchemist e Public by Hiromu Pewauke imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp Arakawa through a series of cartoons. Edward and his brother Alphonse, who is trapped in a suit of armor, begin a quest The Arrival by Shaun Tan to recover the one thing that can restore Great Graphic Novels A man leaves his homeland and sets off for a their bodies: The Philosopher’s Stone. new country where he must build a life for xxxHolic by CLAMP himself and his family. Watanuki meets a mysterious witch who Do you love graphic claims that she can help him with his novels, comics, and Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel problems, and then tricks him into manga? When Garth Hale is accidentally zapped into the working in her shop. ghost world by Frank Gallows, a washed-up ghost wrangler, he discovers that he has special Blue Exorcist by Kazue Kato powers. Soon he finds himself on the run from When Rin learns that his father is the the evil ruler of Ghostopolis, who wants to use Demon Lord Satan, he swears to defeat him and enters True Cross Academy to Garth's newfound abilities to tighten his grip on become an exorcist. the spirit world. Bakuman by Tsugumi Oba Trickster: Native American Tales Is becoming a successful manga artist an These 21 folktales, created by pairing Native achievable dream, or one big gamble? storytellers with a variety of artists, feature Black Butler by Yana Toboso creatures explaining how things came to be, like Chronicles the adventures of the 12-year- islands or stars, or animals playing tricks on one old Earl of Phantomhive and his loyal All of the following another. butler Sebastian, whose skills seems books can be found in more than human. e YA Graphic Novel American Born Chinese th by Gene Luen Yang abetical In an action-packed modern fairy tale about the Collection alph or’s last Library under the auth problems young Chinese Americans face trying e Public Pewauke to participate in popular culture, the lives of three name unless otherwise noted. characters - Jin Wang, Monkey King, and Chin- 210 Main Street Pewaukee, WI 53072 Kee - come together with an unexpected twist. (262) 691-5670 SG 09/14 Read more by this prolific graphic novelist. www.pewaukeelibrary.org www.facebook.com/pewaukeelibrary Join the Teens @Pewaukee Public Library group on Goodreads.com Great Graphic Novels Kampung Boy by Lat Dramacon by Svetlana Chmakova This story follows the early life of a Muslim boy When amateur writer Christie settles in the artist growing up in a tiny town in Malaysia during the alley of her first ever anime convention, she sees it 1950s. Laika by Nick Abadzis only as an opportunity to promote the manga she Laika was the abandoned puppy destined to had started with her artist boyfriend. But when she Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside become Earth's first space traveler. This is her unexpectedly falls for a mysterious cosplayer, Shorty by G. Neri journey. things become very complicated. A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge African American gang member from Chicago Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant Paige Turner has trouble adjusting to her new life who shot a young girl and was then shot by his family and self-conscious about her body, has in New York City, but her “secret identity” as an own gang members. given up fitting in at school. But when she falls artist and her sketchbook help her to make friends, down a well and makes friends with the ghost explore the city, and find her true self. Battling Boy by Paul Pope there she thinks she’s found just what she As monsters roam Acropolis and swallow needs...or has she? Peanut by Ayun Halliday children into their shadowy underworld, twelve- Nervous about starting her sophomore year at a year-old superhero Battling Boy steps in to save Re-Gifters by Mike Carey new high school, Sadie decides to make herself the city in the absence of genius vigilante Korean American teenager Dixie and her best more interesting by claiming to be allergic to pea- Haggard West. friend, Avril, practice hapkido, a martial art. nuts, but her lie quickly spirals out of control. There is a big hapkido tournament coming up in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi their South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks The great-granddaughter of Iran’s last emperor but Dixie loses her focus when she develops a After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes crush on another teen hapkido artist, Adam. mother and three older brothers, Maggie enrolls in growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by public high school where interacting with her peers political upheaval and vast contradictions The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci in complicated by the melancholy ghost that follows between public and private life. Bored and lonely in her new town and school, her around. Jane is thrilled when she meets three other girls Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from named Jane, all of them as out of place as she Ichiro by Ryan Inzana an Unpleasant Age edited by Ariel Schrag is. They form a secret club, the Plain Janes, Ichiro, the son of a fallen American soldier, Seventeen different artists portray the and decide to liven up the town with art. relocates with his mother to Japan. After visiting hardships, dramas, and joys of junior high temples with his grandfather he experiences a through an array of colorful tales. supernatural encounter that teaches him about the natures of humans, gods, and war. .