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Harvey Award Nominee, Best Children or Young Adult Book
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,
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"Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format"--Title page verso.
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Nahoko Uehashi's The Beast Player is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.
Erin's family cares for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. When some of the beasts mysteriously die, Elin's mother is sentenced to death as punishment. With her last breath she manages to send her daughter to safety. Alone, far from home, Elin discovers...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA FICTION Min, L. Beating
1 available
YA FICTION Min, L. Beating
1 available
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Seventeen-year-old Santi Arboleda finally feels settled in his new life in Los Angeles with a growing found family and a relationship with musical prodigy Suwa--until Suwa is offered the chance to step into the spotlight that he has always denied himself and they must finally face their dreams, their pasts, and their futures, whether together or apart.
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Available Online
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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National bestseller
2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist
ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection
ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui.
This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is
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Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA GRAPHIC Xu
1 available
YA GRAPHIC Xu
1 available
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"Following his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel--one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The result is a readable story without words, an account of twenty-four hours in the life of "Mr. Black," a typical...
7) Boxers
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
GRAPHIC Yang,G. Boxers
1 available
GRAPHIC Yang,G. Boxers
1 available
Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA GRAPHIC Yang
2 available
YA GRAPHIC Yang
2 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Young Adult
YA 741.5 YAN
1 available
YA 741.5 YAN
1 available
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In 1898 China, Little Bao has had enough of foreign missionaries and soldiers robbing peasants, and he recruits an army of Boxers to fight to free China from its oppressors.
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Kai Ting grows up in a Mandarin family that fled to San Francisco, isolated from American culture until a stepmother tries to erase every vestige of China from the household.
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Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA SCIENCE FICTION Wang, C. City
1 available
YA SCIENCE FICTION Wang, C. City
1 available
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"Glori has to question everything she's been taught when a desperate rescue mission brings her to a strange city where she encounters men for the first time"--
For seventeen years the division of the sexes has kept the post-nuclear world peaceful. Glori Rhodes is like most other fees her age: she can bench her body weight, and knew beast counter attack moves by the time she was seven. When her mother gives birth to a baby beast, Glori can't help...
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"Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian--half, his mom's side--and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder....
11) Direwood
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Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA HORROR Yu, C. Direwood
1 available
YA HORROR Yu, C. Direwood
1 available
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"In this velvet-clad 1990s gothic horror, Aja encounters a charming vampire who wants to lure her into the woods--just like her missing sister"--
No one ever pays attention to sixteen-year-old Aja until her perfect older sister Fiona goes missing. In the days leading up to Fiona's disappearance, Aja notices some extraordinary things: a strange fog rolling through their idyllic suburban town, a brief moment when the sky seems to rain blood, and a...
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Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
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Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA HISTORICAL Lee,S. Downstairs
1 available
YA HISTORICAL Lee,S. Downstairs
1 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Young Adult
YA FICTION Lee,S. Downstairs
1 available
YA FICTION Lee,S. Downstairs
1 available
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"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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Falmouth - East Branch - Young Adult
YA FICTION Tahir
1 available
YA FICTION Tahir
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Young Adult
YA FICTION Tahir
1 available
YA FICTION Tahir
1 available
Available Online
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--
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Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA ROMANCE Choi, M. Emergency
1 available
YA ROMANCE Choi, M. Emergency
1 available
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"After a chance encounter, Penny and Sam become each other's emergency contacts and find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other"--
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Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA FICTION Zhang
1 available
YA FICTION Zhang
1 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Young Adult
YA FICTION Zhang
1 available
YA FICTION Zhang
1 available
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"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life"--
17) Frankly in love
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Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong? Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents. Frank barely speaks any Korean. He was born and raised in Southern California. Even so, his parents still expect him to end up with a nice Korean girl--which is a problem, since Frank is finally dating the girl of his dreams: Brit...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA 305.89 YOO
1 available
YA 305.89 YOO
1 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Young Adult
YA 305.89 YOO
1 available
YA 305.89 YOO
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Young Adult
YA 305.89 YOO
1 available
YA 305.89 YOO
1 available
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"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker...
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There is a segment of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims that is more influential than any other, and will shape not just the future of Muslims, but also the world around them. The Arab spring - though in many ways thwarted - has nevertheless raised the prospect of a segment of Islamic societies which has an eye on the future of the Muslim world. Who are they? What drives them? The growing consumer power of Muslims, young Muslims in particular, is a...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Young Adult
YA FANTASY Oh, A. Girl
1 available
YA FANTASY Oh, A. Girl
1 available
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In this retelling of the Korean legend The tale of Shim Cheong, sixteen-year-old Mina is swept away to the Spirit Realm, where, assisted by a motley crew of demons, gods, and lesser spirits, she sets out to awaken the sleeping Sea God and save her homeland and family from deadly storms.
Deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people...