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Being Jazz: My Life As a (Transgender) Teen
By Jazz JenningsAt the age of five, with her parents' support, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl. A year later, she shared her journey with Barbara Walters. Jazz reflects on these public experiences and how they have helped shape mainstream attitudes toward the trans community. -
The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne FrankIn 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. Anne kept a diary for the next two years, until her family's whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo. -
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings
By Margarita EngleIllustrated by Edel Rodriguez | An account of the first 14 years of the author's life in poems, telling of her time spent between her mother's native Cuba and her home in Los Angeles, until the revolution in Cuba dramatically altered relations between the two countries she loves. -
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By Alison BechdelA darkly funny family portrait detailing the author's childhood and her relationship with her father, a high school English teacher and funeral home director who is also secretly gay. -
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
By Sandra Uwiringiyimana with Abigail…The author shares the story of her survival during the Gatumba massacre, despite losing her mother and sister, and how after moving to America she found healing through art and activism. -
March (trilogy)
By John Lewis with Andrew AydinIllustrated by Nate Powell | A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spanning his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement. -
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
By Art SpiegelmanAn account of the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. -
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
By Marjane SatrapiThe great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life. -
Vincent & Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
By Deborah HeiligmanExamines the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh, showing how Theo supported the painter throughout his creative and interpersonal struggles.