Graphic Novels
(Select any title to request it from the library's
catalog)
Manga Series
Hikaru No Go
by Yumi Hotta
Sixth-grade Hikaru Shindo's discovery of a bloodstained game board leads to an encounter with the ghost of Go master Fujiwara-no-Sai and the formation of an unbeatable Go team.
Inu Yasha
by Rumiko Takahashi
A high-school girl travels to the past and meets a half-demon
named Inu Yasha. Together, they race against the forces of evil
to find the shards of a magic jewel.
Naruto
by Masashi Kishimoto
In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
by Fumino Hayashi
Harried, harassed and harangued -- that's Shinji Ikari's life in a nutshell. Still, his days are fairly typical for a Tokyo teenager: he's got a pushy pal in Asuka who rudely rouses him whenever he's running late for school, and he's surrounded by the standard assortment of high school goofballs. Everything's just as you'd expect ... until one day some strange things begin to happen.
Oh My Goddess!
by Kosuke Fujishima
A college student is in love with a beautiful Norse Goddess. Will
he ever have the nerve to tell her how he feels?
Prince of Tennis
by Takeshi Konomi
When 12-year-old tennis prodigy Ryoma Echizen enters Seinan Academy Middle School, the tennis coach, the members of the team, and the kids in his class are all intrigued.
Tsubasa
by Clamp
When Sakura ventures to the dig site to declare her love for Syaoran, a puzzling symbol is uncovered -- which triggers a remarkable quest. Now Syaoran embarks upon a desperate journey through other worlds -- all in the name of saving Sakura.
Graphic Novel Biographies
American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
Blankets
by Craig Thompson
This sensitive memoir recreates the confusion, emotional pain and isolation of the author's rigidly fundamentalist Christian upbringing, along with the trepidation of growing into maturity.
Epileptic
by David B.
This autobiographical work plumbs the psychological, social, and symbolic reaches of the author's experiences in a family that must deal with a devastating disease.
Ghost World
by Daniel Clowes
Enid and Rebecca have been friends for so long that it's difficult for either of them to let the other grow or change. Now Enid will probably leave their working-class neighborhood and go away to college and Rebecca cannot accept this change in their relationship.
Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
Marji tells of her life in Iran from the age of 10, when the Islamic revolution of 1979 reintroduced a religious state, through the age of 14 when the Iran-Iraq war forced her parents to send her to Europe for safety.
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