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 a permanent relocation—following her mother’s announcement that she’s getting married—Robin is devastated.

Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new school where she doesn’t understand the language and struggles to keep up. She is completely cut off from her friends in Seoul and has no access to her beloved comics. At home, she doesn’t fit in with her new stepfamily, and worst of all, she is furious with the one person she is closest to—her mother.

Then one day Robin’s mother enrolls her in a local comic drawing class, which opens the window to a future Robin could never have imagined.

This nonfiction graphic novel with four starred reviews is an excellent choice for teens and also accelerated tween readers, both for independent reading and units on immigration, memoirs, and the search for identity.

A Hundred Billion Ghosts by D.M. Sinclair - Used

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The story of a desperate man who lost his own body, the world’s worst detective who “helps” him find it, some highly dubious breakfast choices, and literally every dead person ever.

Ryan Matney has no life, but he’s pretty sure one’s going to start any day now. He’s felt that way every day for the last decade or so. But still, he has a good feeling about tomorrow.

Then, in a world-altering cosmic event, the ghosts of everyone who ever died suddenly become visible to the living. Now every house is haunted and the streets are filled with wandering souls. Death, once humankind’s greatest mystery, is just a few inconvenient moments and then back to work on Monday.

In this strange new world where everyone stays around forever, Ryan decides that life really begins at death. So, with the help of some questionable technology, he embarks on a permanent out-of-body experience and becomes one among a hundred billion ghosts.

It doesn’t go well. And soon, Ryan finds that he wants his body back. But it’s not where he left it. And if he doesn’t get back into it by the end of the week, he’ll cease to exist. Totally. Forever.

Also, there’s a cereal he really wants to try. That’s less of a problem. But still a problem.

“Laced with poignancy, humor and loads of twists and turns” (Rachel Reads).
“I found myself up late at night instead of sleeping and ignoring household chores wanting to know what happened next” (JBronder Book Reviews)

Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater - Used

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny.

The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .