Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
10 best books like Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer (Trina Robbins): Stargazing, The Boy & The Bindi, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, We Are On Our Own, The Cats In Krasinski Square, I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero, Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America, The Other Side of the Wall, I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding During World War II, Four Feet, Two Sandals
Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.
When Moon’s family moves in next door to Christine’s, Moon goes from unlikely...
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 1551526689 |
While I am no expert on children’s books by any stretch of the imagination, I did enjoy reading them to my nieces and nephews when they were younger. Some books originally intended for younger audiences can be enjoyed at any age, and I think that ‘The Boy and the Bindi’ is a good example. The target...
| Author | Jonathan Fetter-Vorm |
| ISBN | 0809094681 |
Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century...
| Author | Miriam Katin |
| ISBN | 1896597203 |
A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith
In this captivating and elegantly illustrated graphic memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0439435404 |
Newbery medalist Karen Hesse tells a harrowing, true story about life in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
When Karen Hesse came upon a short article about cats out-foxing the Gestapo at the train station in Warsaw during WWII, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is this stirring account...
| Author | Brad Meltzer |
| ISBN | 0525552723 |
Twenty-five exceptional comic book creators join forces to share the heroic story of Gandhi in this inspiring graphic novel biography.
As a young man in India, Gandhi saw firsthand how people were treated unfairly. Refusing to accept injustice, he came up with a brilliant way to fight back...
| Author | Tonya Bolden |
| ISBN | 1419708465 |
Sarah Rector was once famously hailed as “the richest black girl in America.” Set against the backdrop of American history, her tale encompasses the creation of Indian Territory, the making of Oklahoma, and the establishment of black towns and oil-rich boomtowns.
Rector acquired...
| Author | Simon Schwartz |
| ISBN | 1322508240 |
Simon Schwartz was born in 1982 in East Germany, at a time when the repressive Socialist Unity Party of Germany controlled the area. Shortly before Simon's birth, his parents decided to leave their home in search of greater freedoms on the other side of the Berlin Wall. But East German authorities did...
I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding During World War II
| Author | Marisabina Russo |
| ISBN | 0375866957 |
What was it like to grow up Jewish in Italy during World War II? Sit with a little girl as her grandmother tells the story of her childhood in Rome, of being separated from her father, and of going into hiding in the mountains. Based on the experiences of the author's own family, this deeply moving book set...
| Author | Karen Lynn Williams |
| ISBN | 0802852963 |
When relief workers bring used clothing to the refugee camp, everyone scrambles to grab whatever they can. Ten-year-old Lina is thrilled when she finds a sandal that fits her foot perfectly, until she sees that another girl has the matching shoe. But soon Lina and Feroza meet and decide that it is better...
