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Find Yourself: Diverse Comics for Readers

Comics are for everyone! Enjoy these imaginative graphic novels for emerging readers about characters with diverse experiences.

San José Public Library

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  • A book series tells about the adventure of Akissi around the city in Africa. Akissi is an energetic, clever, and funny girl that is afraid of nothing.
    Book, London ; — J FICTION AKISSI
  • Sanity and Tallulah live on a dilapidated space station on the edge of the galaxy. Gifted scientist Sanity invents a cute, and totally illegal, three headed kitten, which escapes and wrecks havoc on the space station. The best friends find the…
    Book, 2018Los Angeles : Disney/Hyperion, 2018. — J FICTION SANITY
  • My Beijing

    Four Stories of Everyday Wonder

    Jun, Nie, 1975-
    Yu’er and her grandpa live in a town in Beijing, China, and experience the magic in their daily life. Magic is not from the fairy tales but from people and love.
    Book, 2018Minneapolis : Graphic Universe, 2018. — J FICTION MY BEIJING
  • Geeky Fab Five

    It's Not Rocket Science #1, It's Not Rocket Science

    Lareau, Lucy,
    Create a band of geeky friends to build a cool new playground together! Easy, right? Join Lucy, the gang, Hubble the snarky kitty, and their TV reporter buddy, Suzy Pundergast, to find out if they can prove the meanies wrong because when girls stick…
    Book, 2018New York : Papercutz, 2018. — J FICTION GEEKY FAB FIVE
  • Two friends go to summer camp! Olive’s ready to try new activities and make new friends, and Willow is a bit more apprehensive, struggling to fit in and share Olive with the other campers.
    Book, 2019New York, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] — J FICTION CLICK
  • Rin is a girl in the village that found Aedhan, a young dragon who was supposed to be the guard of the village but fell asleep for eighty years. Tea Dragon Festival is a lovely and peaceful journey that Rin helps Aedhan to find the feelings that he…
    Book, 2017[Portland, Oregon] : Oni Press, 2017. — YA FICTION TEA DRAGON SOCIETY
  • In Aster’s family, there is one rule: all the girls grow up to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Aster is fascinated by witchcraft and studies in secret even though it is forbidden. When several boys disappear from the community,…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2017. — J FICTION WITCH BOY
  • Brave Latinex sibling duo, Red Panda and Moon Bear, team up with new friends to uncover the secret cause behind some extra mysterious events in their community and save the world.
    Book, 2019Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2019] — J FICTION Red
  • Children in the neighborhood create their costumes from the cardboard to become their favorite characters. A series show how children’s imagination can go beyond the boundary.
    Book, 2018New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018] — J FICTION CARDBOARD KINGDOM
  • Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness.
    Book, 2019New York : First Second, 2019. — J FICTION Stargazi