Search Results: Returned 6 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 6
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2020., ONI Press Call No: GN B Gill Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Author Joel Christian Gill pens a graphic novel memoir about the brutality of his youth as the child of a single mother whose restlessness forced him to become a survivor of bullying at new schools, abuse at home, and violence on the streets. Despite this, and being forced out of his home, Joel found solace in art, and vowed to live a different life.
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2012., First Second Call No: 741.5 LON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A black family and a white family in 1960s Texas find common ground during the Civil Rights Movement.
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By Bell, Darrin2023., Henry Holt and Company Call No: GN 305.8 BEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic water gun. "She told me I'm a lot more likely to be shot by police than my friend was if they saw me with it, because police tend to think little Black boys-even light-skinned ones-are older than they really are, and less innocent than they really are." Bell examines how "the talk" has shaped nearly every moment of his life into adulthood and fatherhood. Through evocative original illustrations, The Talk is a meditation on this coming-of-age-as Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as dangerous by white teachers, neighbors, and strangers, and thus of his mortality. Drawing attention to the brutal murders of African Americans like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, and showcasing his award-winning cartoons along the way, Bell takes us up to the very moment of reckoning when people took to the streets protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and when he must have "the talk" with a six-year-old son of his own"--
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c2010., Lee & Low Books Call No: GN Yummy Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Tells the true story of an eleven-year-old gang member from Chicago who shoots a girl and is then shot by members of his own gang.
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c2010., Juvenile, Lee & Low Books Call No: GN NER Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members"--Provided by publisher.
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c2010., Juvenile, Lee & Low Books Call No: 741.5 NERI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members.
