UPDATE IN PROGRESS 1/8/2026

Activism

Teen Graphic Novels

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists by Mikki Kendall and A. D'amicoThe ongoing struggle for women’s rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to vote, work, get an education, own property, exercise bodily autonomy, and beyond. A fun and fascinating graphic novel–style primer that covers the key figures and events that have advanced women’s rights from antiquity to the modern era, ranging in focus from queens to civil rights leaders, abolitionists to suffragettes.

I am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina When 15 year old Alfonso Jones goes to buy a suit for his school's production of Hamlet, he is shot and killed by an off duty police officer. In the afterlife, Alfonso travels on a subway filled with the living and the dead while his friends and family take to the street to demand justice for Alfonso.

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, art by Ko Hyung-Ju1983 South Korea was under the thumb of a brutal, militaristic regime. A group of university students start hosting secret meetings to discuss books banned by the government. When Freshman Kim Hyun Sook joins the group, she quickly learns how dangerous these readings can be and the importance of defiance at any scale.

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