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#1 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 18 week(s).

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Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.

2) Drama

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Telgemeier, Raina

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#2 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 179 week(s).

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Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.

3) Smile

Author

Telgemeier, Raina

Series

Smile

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#3 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 240 week(s).

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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood!

Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's

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4) March: Book one

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Lewis, John

Series

March

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#4 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 66 week(s).

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Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.Now, to share his remarkable story with

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5) Fun home: a family tragicomic

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Bechdel, Alison

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#6 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. It has been on the list for 50 week(s).

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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...

6) Sisters

Author

Telgemeier, Raina

Series

[Smile volume 2

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#8 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 117 week(s).

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"Three weeks. Two sisters. A true story... Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years. But when a baby brother enters the picture, and later, when something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how...

7) Roller girl

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Jamieson, Victoria

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#10 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. It has been on the list for 37 week(s).

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"A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart"--