SJPL Picks: Multicultural Graphic Novels for KidsLike this list

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• Swim Team

  Christmas, Johnnie,

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  Grade Level - 3rd to 6th - When she has to take Swim 101, middle schooler Bree must face one of her greatest fears, but with a little help from an elderly neighbor and former swim team captain, she becomes her school's best hope to beat…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Quinces

  Fajardo, Kat, 1991-

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  Grade Level - 4th to 8th - Lexile Level 370 - Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories

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  Grade Level - 5th to 7th - A collection of comics reimagines folklore from North American tribes. - Novelist

• Miles Morales

  Shock Waves : a Spider-Man Graphic Novel

  Reynolds, Justin A.,

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  Grade Level - 6th to 12th - 450 - Miles Morales, Brooklyn's Spider-Man, learns that the disappearance of a new student's father is linked to the giant corporation sponsoring Miles' fundraiser for the victims of the Puerto Rico earthquake…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stealing Home

  Torres, J., 1969-

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  Grade Level - 4th to 7th - Lexile Level 430 - The story of a Japanese-Canadian boy's experience in a World War II internment camp. - Novelist

• The Legend of Auntie Po

  Khor, Shing Yin,

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  Grade Level - 5th to 8th - Lexile Level 390 - Part historical fiction, part magical realism, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine as she works in a Sierra Nevada…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Marchers, and Other Oceanian Stories

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  Grade Level - 6th to 12th - Ghostly warriors, angry gods, and monstrous tyrants? That's just the start of this collection of folklore from the Pacific, retold in comics! - Novelist

• Shuri

  Wakanda Forever

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  Grade Level - 5th to 9th - T'Challa has disappeared, and Wakanda expects Shuri to lead their great nation in his absence! But she's happiest in a lab surrounded by her inventions. She'd rather be testing gauntlets than throwing them down!…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Class Act

  Craft, Jerry,

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  Grade Level - 4th to 8th - Lexile Level 340 - Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Measuring Up

  Lamotte, Lily,

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  Grade Level - 3rd to 6th - Lexile Level 360 - Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Twins

  Johnson, Varian,

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  Grade Level - 3rd to 7th - Lexile Level360 - Maureen and Francine distinguish themselves for the first time by pursuing separate interests at the beginning of the sixth grade. -- Novelist

• Hotel Dare

  Blas, Terry,

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  Grade level - 5th to 8th - When Olive and her adopted siblings spend the summer with their estranged grandmother at her creepy hotel, they stumble upon a secret door that holds a portal to distant magical worlds filled with space pirates,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Okay Witch

  Steinkellner, Emma,

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  Grade Level - 4th to 8th - Lexile Level 390 - "Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. But she's about to discover that witches aren't just the stuff of movies, books, and spooky stories. When some eighth-grade bullies try to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stargazing

  Wang, Jen, 1984-

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  Grade Level - 3rd to 6th - Lexile Level 510 - Chinese-American student Christine is devastated when her artistic best friend, Moon, falls dangerously ill amid revelations that she has been having visions about celestial beings telling her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Kid

  Craft, Jerry,

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  Grade Level - 3rd to 7th - Lexile Level 320 - Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tamamo the Fox Maiden

  and Other Asian Stories

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  Grade Level - 6th to 12th - A collection of Asian folktales retold as comics include vengeful spirits, flying ogres, and trickster tigers from Japan, China, Tibet, India, Indonesia and beyond. - Novelist

• The Cardboard Kingdom

  Sell, Chad

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  Grade Level - 4th to 7th - Lexile Level 150 - Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl Who Married a Skull, and Other African Stories

  a Cautionary Fables & Fairytales Book

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  Grade Level - 6th to 12th - In this vibrant comics treasury, some of storytelling’s finest talents reimagine classic African folktales with a modern twist. - Novelist

• Where's Halmoni?

  Kim, Julie J., 1973-

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  Grade Level - Kindergarten to 2nd - Lexile Level 320 - Searching for their missing grandmother, two Korean children follow tracks into a fantastic world filled with beings from folklore who speak in Korean. Includes translations and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dragon Slayer

  Folktales From Latin America

  Hernandez, Jaime,

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  Grade Level 2nd to 6th - Lexile Level 570 - Guided by the classic works of F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada, Hernandez’s first book for young readers brings the sights and stories of Latin America to a new generation of graphic-novel…Read moreRead more of this annotation