The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel
10 best books like The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel (Patti Laboucane-Benson): Essex County, After the First Death, river woman, After the Death of Anna Gonzales, The Sledding Hill, Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story, Red: A Haida Manga, Surviving the City (The Debwe Series), Pemmican Wars, This Place: 150 Years Retold
Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What turns two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the simple-hearted care of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused...
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0440208351 |
Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, said in an interview with Horn Book Magazine, “Most teenage fiction has an invisible ring of safety built into it. However sticky situations get, however dark the material, little signals here and there give off the message that...
| Author | Katherena Vermette |
| ISBN | 1487003463 |
Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist...
A look at the effects of one girl's suicide on her high school
"I can feel
The whispering of the hallway walls
Growing louder as the groups gather.
Each clique adding to its morning input.
"Did you hear?"
"Who told you?"
"Do you think it's really true?"
New...
| Author | Chris Crutcher |
| ISBN | 0060502452 |
Eddie hasn't had an easy year
First his father dies. Then his best friend Billy accidentally kicks a stack of Sheetrock over on himself, breaking his neck and effectively hitting tilt on his Earthgame. Eddie and Billy were inseparable. Still are. Billy isn't going to let a little thing like...
| Author | David Alexander Robertson |
| ISBN | 9781553793 |
A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to a residential...
| Author | Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas |
Referencing a classic Haida oral narrative, this stunning full-colour graphic novel documents the tragic story of a leader so blinded by revenge that he leads his community to the brink of war and destruction. Consisting of 108 pages of hand-painted illustrations,
Red
is a groundbreaking mix of...
Surviving the City (The Debwe Series)
| Author | Tasha Spillett |
| ISBN | 1553797566 |
Tasha Spillett’s graphic novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, colonialism, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban...
| Author | Katherena Vermette |
| ISBN | 1553796780 |
Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee’s history class turns extraordinary, and Echo’s life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee’s lecture, Echo finds herself...
This Place: 150 Years Retold
| Author | Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm |
| ISBN | 1553797582 |
Explore the last 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in the graphic novel anthology, This Place: 150 Years Retold. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through magic realism, serial killings, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous...
