"We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles." Stephen Covey.


Select this Summer Bag full of TRUE STORIES!

Each of these graphic novels recounts the challenges and obstacles faced by real people. These are their life stories...

Overcoming Obstacles (Graphic Format NonFiction) - 4 Books in this Bag:

Passport / by Sophia Glock.

Summary: In this graphic memoir, teenage Sophia lives with her family in South America where her parents serve as foreign diplomats, but as she explores her own boundaries around honesty and deception she discovers the true nature of her parent's work

They called us enemy / written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott ; art by Harmony Becker.

Summary: Actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II and the impact the experience had on his later life.

Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir / by Robin Ha.

Summary: The author recounts how she and her mother moved from South Korea to the United States.

Belonging : a German reckons with history and home / by Nora Krug.

Summary: A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history.