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Central - Adult Graphic Novel
GRAPH 306.76 KOBAB
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GRAPH 306.76 KOBAB
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Aurora Hills - Adult Graphic Novel
GRAPH 306.76 KOBAB
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GRAPH 306.76 KOBAB
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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em.
Now, Gender Queer is here.
Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with
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Central - Adult Fiction
F EVISO
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F EVISO
2 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F EVISO
1 available
F EVISO
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F EVISO
1 available
F EVISO
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"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--
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Aurora Hills - Teen Biography
YB JOHNSON G
1 available
YB JOHNSON G
1 available
Cherrydale - Teen Biography
YB JOHNSON G
1 available
YB JOHNSON G
1 available
Glencarlyn - Teen Biography
YB JOHNSON G
1 available
YB JOHNSON G
1 available
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
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Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF THOMA
2 available
YF THOMA
2 available
Central - Teen Fiction
YF THOMA 2022
1 available
YF THOMA 2022
1 available
Aurora Hills - Teen Fiction
YF THOMA 2022
1 available
YF THOMA 2022
1 available
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Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Angie Thomas's searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence, heart, and unflinching honesty. Soon to be a major motion picture from Fox 2000/Temple Hill Productions. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy...
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Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences,...
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Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg's mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel. Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia -- cue extreme adolescent awkwardness -- but a parental mandate has...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MORRI
2 available
F MORRI
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MORRI
1 available
F MORRI
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F MORRI
1 available
F MORRI
1 available
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Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni...
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Courthouse - Teen Nonfiction
Y 306.766 DAWSO 2021
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Y 306.766 DAWSO 2021
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"There's a long-running joke that, after coming out as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex person, you should receive a membership card and instruction manual. THIS IS THAT INSTRUCTION MANUAL. You're welcome. Inside this revised and updated edition, you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask: from sex to politics, hooking up to stereotypes, coming out and more. This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration...
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Columbia Pike - Teen Nonfiction
Y 306.768 KUKLI
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Y 306.768 KUKLI
1 available
Glencarlyn - Teen Nonfiction
Y 306.768 KUKLI
1 available
Y 306.768 KUKLI
1 available
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"Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful...