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1) Oksi
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Poorling is a little bear who is a bit different from her brothers; she lives in the forest with her family. Mana and her shadow children also live in the forest. And above them all is Emuu, the great Grandma in the sky. Based on a Finnish folklore, this is a tale of mothers and daughters, stars and legends, old gods and new ones.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant."--Amazon.
3) French milk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A lighthearted travelogue--rendered in the form of a graphic novel--about a mother and daughter's life-changing six-week trip to Paris is comprised of the graphic artist daughter's illustrations of the sights and scenes they visited while each was facing a milestone birthday.
4) Odessa
Author
Series
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eight years ago an earthquake--the Big One--hit along the Cascadia fault line, toppling cities and changing landscapes all up and down the west coast of the United States. Life as we know it changed forever. But for Vietnamese American Virginia Crane, life changed shortly after the earthquake, when her mother left and never came back. Ginny has gotten used to a life without her mother, helping her father take care of her two younger brothers, Wes...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Barbara Thorson, an acerbic fifth-grader so consumed with fantasy that she doesn't just tell people that she kills giants with an ancient Norse warhammer -- she starts to believe it herself. This book reveals the reasons for Barbara's troubled behavior, as she learns to reconcile her fantasy life with the real world" --
Author
Publisher
Six Foot Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Angsty teenager Mary Shelley is not interested in carrying on her family's celebrated legacy of being a great writer, but she soon discovers that she has the not-so-celebrated and super-secret Shelley power to heal monsters, just like her famous ancestor, and those monsters are not going to let her ignore her true calling anytime soon. The Shelley family history is filled with great writers: the original Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, the...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray/Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...