March: Book Two
10 best books like March: Book Two (John Lewis): The Cardboard Kingdom, Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, Boxers, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White
| Author | Chad Sell |
| ISBN | 1524719374 |
Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again.
In...
| Author | Joel Christian Gill |
| ISBN | 1938486293 |
Strange Fruit, Volume I is a collection of stories from African American history that exemplifies success in the face of great adversity. This unique graphic anthology offers historical and cultural commentary on nine uncelebrated heroes whose stories are not often found in history books. Among...
| Author | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1596433590 |
China, 1898. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants.
Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu--who fight to free China from "foreign...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1328810151 |
In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...
| Author | Nicole J. Georges |
| ISBN | 0544577833 |
From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet
When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack,...
| Author | John Hendrix |
| ISBN | 1419728385 |
Interweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German church embrace Hitler's agenda of hatred....
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 1596438657 |
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and...
| 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 | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0763665312 |
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, recollects the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights.
"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within...
| Author | Lila Quintero Weaver |
| ISBN | 0817357149 |
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver. In 1961, when Lila was five, she and her family emigrated from Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
| Author | Mark Long |
| ISBN | 1596436182 |
In 1960s Texas, a white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
The...
| Author | Jonathan Hennessey |
| ISBN | 0061969761 |
The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation is a full-color illustrated look at Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech, the bloody battle of the Civil War that prompted it, and how they led to a defining point in the history of America.
Most of us can recall “Four score and seven years...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419715364 |
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north...
| Author | Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
Hey, Kiddo is the graphic memoir of author-illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Raised by his colorful grandparents, who adopted him because his mother was an incarcerated heroin addict, Krosoczka didn't know his father's name until he saw his birth certificate when registering for a school ski trip....
| Author | Steve Sheinkin |
| ISBN | 0804167443 |
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin.
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty...
| Author | Joseph Lambert |
| ISBN | 1423113365 |
«My heart is singing for joy this morning! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!»Helen Keller lost her ability to see and hear before she turned two years old.
But in her lifetime, she learned to ride horseback and dance the foxtrot....
| Author | Hester Bass |
| ISBN | 0763669199 |
Explore a little-known story of the Civil Rights movement, in which black and white citizens in one Alabama city worked together nonviolently to end segregation.
Mention the Civil Rights era in Alabama, and most people recall images of terrible violence. But something different was happening...
| Author | Archie Bongiovanni |
| ISBN | 1620104997 |
Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide...
| Author | Sarah Glidden |
| ISBN | 1770462554 |
"An intricate investigation of how the reality of conflict gets filtered through personal, political, and journalistic narrative...This work—quiet but challenging, plain yet beautiful—exemplifies [Glidden's] skillful, sensitive reportage."—Library Journal Starred Review
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