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Graphic Biographies and Memoirs

• Poppies of Iraq by Brigitte Findakly, illustrated by Lewis Trondheim
• Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao
  RI Teen Book Award Nominee 2024
• Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography by Andrew Helfer, illustrated by Randy DuBurke
• The Girl that Can't Get a Girlfriend by Mieri Hiranishi
• Change the Game by Colin Kaepernick and Eve L. Ewing, illustrated by Orlando Caicedo
• Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
• March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell
• Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans edited by Sammy Lisel and Hazel Newlevant
• The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel, illustrated by Sammy Savos
• The Boy from Clearwater by Yu Pei-Yun, illustrated by Zhou Jian-Xin
• Tomboy by Liz Prince
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi