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741.504 / LOM
Gulf war journal: A graphic novel.
Don Lomax. 2004. 304p. (S)
Journalist and Vietnam veteran Don Lomax covers the first war in Iraq.
Gritty and action-packed. For younger children see Alia's Mission: Saving
the Books of Iraq by Mark Alan Stamaty, a picture book about a library which
is destroyed (and rebuilt) during the war in Iraq.

Q974.1 / SPI
In the shadow of no towers.
Art Spiegelman. 2004. 42p. (S)
Publishers Weekly calls this graphic novel an "artistic rant" - an
anguished, outraged look at September 11th and its consequences by the
acclaimed author of the graphic novel Maus. Another anthology, 9-11:
Emergency Relief, features work by several of the best-known graphic
artists.

741.504 / KUP
The jungle.
Adapted by Peter Kuper. 2004. (JS)
Artistic, inventive telling of Upton Sinclair's shocking novel about the
lives of workers in Chicago's slaughterhouses.

306.362 / THO
Lest we forget: The passage from Africa to slavery and emancipation.
Velma Maia Thomas. 1997. 33p. (All Ages)
A three dimensional interactive book with photographs and documents from the
Black Holocaust Exhibit.

973.7 / GEA
The murder of Abraham Lincoln.
Written and illustrated by Rick Geary. 2005. (JS)
Bizarre, compelling and meticulously researched, this account of Lincoln's
assassination will draw even the most reluctant readers.

J / MYERS
Patrol: An American soldier in Vietnam.
Walter Dean Myers. 2002. 22p. (EM)
A picture book about an African American soldier serving in Vietnam, which
vividly describes the fear and anxiety of war.

955. 05 / SAT
Persepolis.
Marjane Sartrapi. 2003. 153p. (S)
A memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. See also
Persepolis 2.

305.8924 / EIS
The plot: The secret story of the protocols of the elders of Zion.
Will Eisner. 2005. 148p. (S)
Anti-semites have long claimed that Jews have a secret plan to take over the
world, pointing to a document called the Protocols of Zion as evidence.
Eisner explores the origins of this hoax in this fascinating graphic novel.
In Fagin the Jew he revisits the issue of anti-semitism in a retelling the
Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.

741.504 / VAN
Stephen Crane's the red badge of courage: The graphic novel.
Adapted by Wayne Vansant. 2005.
This is one of the Puffin Books series of graphic novel adaptations of
classic books which includes Frankenstein, Macbeth, Treasure Island, and
Call of the Wild. They tend to be faithful to the plot, characters, and
primary themes of the originals and use straightforward, realistic
representations.

741.504 / KUB
Yosell: April 19, 1943.
Joe Kubert. 2003. 120 p. (S)
A Jewish teenager in Nazi-occupied Poland struggles for survival in the
midst of barbaric conditions.

E: Older Elementary School Students
M: Middle School Students
J: 7th - 9th Graders
S: High School Students