Dancing at the Pity Party

• Author : Tyler Feder
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2020-04-14
• ISBN : 9780525556350

Part poignant cancer memoir and part humorous reflection on a motherless life, this debut graphic novel is extraordinarily comforting and engaging. From before her mother's first oncology appointment through the stages of her cancer to the funeral, sitting shiva, and afterward, when she must try to make sense of her life as a motherless daughter, Tyler Feder tells her story in this graphic novel that is full of piercing--but also often funny--details. She shares the important post-death firsts, such as

• Author : Tyler Feder
• Publisher : Dial
• Release Date : 2020
• ISBN : 9780525553021

Tegneserie - graphic novel. Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter

• Author : Tyler Feder
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2021-06-01
• ISBN : 9780593112632

This cheerful love-your-body picture book for preschoolers is an exuberant read-aloud with bright and friendly illustrations to pore over. From the acclaimed creator of Dancing at the Pity Party and Roaring Softly, this picture book is a pure celebration of all the different human bodies that exist in the world. Highlighting the various skin tones, body shapes, and hair types is just the beginning in this truly inclusive book. With its joyful illustrations and encouraging refrain, it will instill body

• Author : Cristen Conger,Caroline Ervin
• Publisher : Ten Speed Press
• Release Date : 2018-10-02
• ISBN : 9780399580468

A funny, fact-driven, and illustrated field guide to how to live a feminist life in today's world, from the hosts of the hit Unladylike podcast. Get ready to get unladylike with this field guide to the what's, why's, and how's of intersectional feminism and practical hell-raising. Through essential, inclusive, and illustrated explorations of what patriarchy looks like in the real world, authors and podcast hosts Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin blend wild histories, astounding stats, social justice principles, and self-help

• Author : Leah Henderson
• Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Release Date : 2021-01-19
• ISBN : 9781534442702

March through history and discover twenty-five groundbreaking protest movements that have shaped the way we fight for equality and justice today in this stunningly illustrated and sweeping book! For generations, marches have been an invaluable tool for bringing about social change. People have used their voices, the words on their signs, and the strength in their numbers to combat inequality, oppression, and discrimination. They march to call attention to these wrongs and demand change and action, from a local to

• Author : Kathleen Lane
• Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Release Date : 2021-01-19
• ISBN : 9780316417358

Discover an "absurd, funny, and thought-provoking" book perfect for "anyone who has ever felt socially awkward or inadequate" (Louis Sachar, author of Holes and the Wayside School series). Dear weird toes, crooked nose, stressed out, left out, freaked out Dear missing parts, broken hearts, picked-on, passed up, misunderstood, Dear everyone, you are cordially invited, come as you are, this party's for you Welcome to Pity Party, where the social anxieties that plague us all are twisted into funny, deeply resonant,

• Author : Alexis Nedd
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release Date : 2021-06-15
• ISBN : 9781547605033

"Refreshingly voice-y, wildly smart, and genuinely hilarious." - Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue From an exciting new voice comes a funny and heartfelt YA romance set in the world of competitive gaming, perfect for fans of Opposite of Always and Slay. Emilia Romero is living a double life. By day, she's a field hockey star with a flawless report card. But by night, she's kicking virtual ass as the only female member of

• Author : Eric Gansworth
• Publisher : Chronicle Books
• Release Date : 2020-10-06
• ISBN : 9781646140145

National Book Award Longlist TIME's 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2020 NPR's Best Book of 2020 Shelf Awareness's Best Books of 2020 Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall Amazon's Best Book of the Month AICL Best YA Books of 2020 CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of 2020 PRAISE "Stirring.... Raw and moving." —TIME "Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald." —The Buffalo News "Easily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives." —

• Author : Rebecca Soffer,Gabrielle Birkner
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release Date : 2018-01-23
• ISBN : 9780062499226

Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices, accompanied by gorgeous two-color illustrations and wry infographics. At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral

• Author : Erica Martin
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2022-02-01
• ISBN : 9780593352533

A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement—from the well-documented events that shaped the nation’s treatment of Black people, beginning with the "Separate but Equal" ruling—and introduces lesser-known figures and moments that were just as crucial to the

• Author : Suzy Hopkins
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release Date : 2018-04-03
• ISBN : 9781632869708

A mother's advice to her daughter--a guide to daily living, both practical and sublime--with full-color illustrations throughout. One sleepless night while she was in her early twenties, illustrator/writer Hallie Bateman had a painful realization: her mom would die, and after she died she would be gone. The prospect was devastating, and also scary--how would she navigate the world without the person who gave her life? She thought about all the motherly advice she would miss--advice that could help her

• Author : Espé
• Publisher : Penn State Press
• Release Date : 2021-03-02
• ISBN : 9780271090054

Bastien is eight years old, and his mother is ill. She often has what his father and grandparents call “episodes.” She screams and fights, scratches and spits, and has to be carted away to specialized clinics for frequent treatments. Bastien doesn’t like it when she goes, because when she comes home, she isn’t the same. She has no feelings, no desires, and not much interest in him. According to the doctors, Bastien’s mother suffers from “bipolar disorder

• Author : Natalie Dupille
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-01-11
• ISBN : 0578611139

A graphic novella that follows Natalie, a casual cyclist, and Allie, a hell-for-leather bike mechanic, as they navigate a four-day bike trip a month before Allie is scheduled for a life-changing surgery. Told through earthy, vibrant watercolor comics, In Spite of Ourselves follows the two as they confront challenges both physical and emotional across the breathtaking backdrops of Central Oregon.

• Author : Rachel Matlow
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2020-03-31
• ISBN : 9780735236318

NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Vine Award in Non-Fiction "A comedy for catastrophic times." --CBC "A hilarious memoir of effervescent misadventures." --Toronto Star "How am I laughing at someone's mother's cancer? How? We think we can't laugh about death, about cancer, about our mothers and their suffering . . . and we can't, but we can. And there's so much relief in that." --Carolyn Taylor, BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW A whip-smart and darkly funny memoir about

• Author : Jennifer L. Holm,Savanna Ganucheau
• Publisher : Random House Graphic
• Release Date : 2021
• ISBN : 9780593126318

In Jennifer L. Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle grade historical fiction novel, life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping for a lady who doesn't like kids, Turtle says goodbye without a