Give it Up! and Other Short Stories

10 best books like Give it Up! and Other Short Stories (Peter Kuper): Gender Queer, Eighth Grade Bites, There Will Come Soft Rains, Paper Girls, Vol. 5, Wrapped Up in You, Playing for Pizza, Josie and the Pussycats Vol. 1, He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Pretty, Archie: 1941

Gender Queer
AuthorMaia Kobabe
ISBN1549304003
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography...
Eighth Grade Bites
AuthorHeather Brewer
ISBN0525478116
Junior high really sucks for thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod. Bullies harass him, the principal is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has a secret: his mother was human, but his father was a vampire. With no idea of the extent of his powers, Vlad struggles daily with...
There Will Come Soft Rains
AuthorRay Bradbury
One of Ray Bradbury’s most poignant short stories, this also has one his most recognized scenes.

Quietly, somberly describing a smart house after a nuclear holocaust, Bradbury uses this Cold War theme as a vehicle to explore our technological advances and how those same advances can lead...
Paper Girls, Vol. 5
AuthorBrian K. Vaughan
ISBN1534308679
“This day and age we’re living in
gives cause for apprehension
With speed and apprehension
And things like the Fourth Dimension.”

(As Time Goes by, verse unused in Casablanca, lyrics Herman Hupfield)

In this, the fifth volume, the girls are still in the future,...
AuthorDan Jolley
ISBN0761368566
Staci Glass feels cursed - whenever there's a crisis, she's stuck in the middle. Now her best friend, Faith, has a new hobby, and against her better judgment, Staci conjures up the courage to go along. They join a trio of wannabe witches for a magical ceremony in an Incan history exhibit. Their chanting...
Playing for Pizza
AuthorJohn Grisham
ISBN0385525001
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game against Denver, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance...
Josie and the Pussycats Vol. 1
AuthorMarguerite Bennett
ISBN1682559890
READ THE LATEST, SUREFIRE TOP-OF-THE-CHARTS NEW RIVERDALE SERIES!
JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS VOL. 1 is the first collection of an all-new take onthe world's biggest comic book band. Marguerite Bennett (DC Comics' Bombshells, Marvel's A-Force) and co-writer Cameron DeOrdio team with Audrey Mok...
AuthorRobin Mayhall
ISBN0761360050
Serena Stevens is already popular in her new school in the tiny Texas town of Rojo--so popular she has two guys interested in her. Self-assured Lance is a football star, and introverted Cam is an intellectual who gets nervous just working with her on their English project aboutDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde....
AuthorJustin Sayre
ISBN0735287732
Pretty isn't everything! Trapped by the limitations of her high-school adjective, the realities of her mother's alcohol addiction, and a racially fraught America, Sophie's perspective on what being pretty really means changes drastically in the second adjective-busting novel by the author of...
Archie: 1941
AuthorMark Waid
ISBN1682558231
Archie Andrews and the gang have seen it all since the characters made their comics debut in 1941, and this fall they're going back to their roots in a tale set in Riverdale during World War II.

Written by comics legend Mark Waid (Archie, Captain America) with longtime collaborators co-writer...
Flocks
AuthorL. Nichols
L. Nichols, a trans man, artist, engineer and father of two, was born in rural Louisiana, assigned female and raised by conservative Christians. Flocks is his memoir of that childhood, and of his family, friends and community, the flocks of Flocks, that shaped and re-shaped him. L.'s irresistibly...
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