2013

Racial tensions in 1968 Chicago have led Maxie, 14, to volunteer at the local Black Panthers office. Convinced that the Panthers will offer her full membership if she can discover who is reporting their plans to the police, she searches. What she finds changes her life in this companion to The Rock and the River.

Seventh-grader Callie adores both musical theatre and a boy performing with her. With the backdrop of their middle-school’s theater production in this colorful graphic novel with cartoonish illustrations, they must learn to navigate both their first crushes and emerging sexual identities.

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Although “face blind,” Chuck Close has spent his life studying faces and making images of them. This colorful, beautifully designed autobiography discusses Close’s techniques and the varied media he uses. An entertaining “mix-and-match” section of his self-portraits reveals his diverse stylistic approaches to the same subject.

The elite Elliot North, in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic rendition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, realizes that she must manage her dysfunctional family’s country estate. Her decisions pit her against the seemingly lost, but not forgotten, love of her childhood.