BFFs Grace and Lola try to unravel the mystery of romance with a plan to observe, study, and analyze the ways of love at their middle school in the first book in this addictive graphic novel series.BFFs Grace and Lola talk about everything related to romance—and have lots of questions: What about the mysterious allure of the popular girl at school? And the rebellious goth with the reputation? And boys. They don’t quite understand what makes some school romances soa...

In a steampunk world where humans live surrounded by robot servants, young Isea prefers to take refuge in Cyrano de Bergerac, a movie recommended to her by her only friend, Tal, whom Isea has only ever met via video chat. But the day that Debree, her beloved nanny robot, is unfairly dismissed by her mother, Isea's fragile equilibrium collapses. Isea then decides to leave and rejoin the only being who has ever given her love, at whatever the cost—even if that being is a robot...

The girls are back. This time, the Misfits focus their attention on Apolline, whose friendly demeanor and eagerness to please others hide an almost debilitating lack of self-confidence that has been weighing her down since childhood. Apolline barely feels that she even deserves to exist, but luckily, her friends won't stand for such nonsense and are going to get her to love herself at all costs, even if it means setting her parents straight about a few things!

Released from a Maryland prison after nearly twenty years served for a crime he committed during high school, Matt is reunited with his younger sister, Jenny. Matt has to prove to his parole officer, his family, and himself, that he can survive as a free man for the first time in his adult life, while facing the challenges of re-entry into a world that drastically changed during his sentence.Knowing that reaching the first year without retuning to prison is critical to Matt's long-...

The next volume in the World Citizen Comics series, Re: Constitutions explains the role constitutions play in how government is structured and provides context for the modern issues that arise from these documents.Marcus is stumped by a summer assignment: to write an essay on what it means to be a citizen. He’s surprised to hear from people in his community that constitutions play an important role when it comes to citizenship—they can even affect whether ...

Nicos seeks solitude in an abandoned village up in the mountains to study his part in the ‘Woman of Zakynthos’ (a theatrical soliloquy by the Greek national poet Dionysios Solomos regarding the Greek Revolution of 1821). Terrified, King is hiding in the forest lest he is locked up again in a mental institution. And Makis, who is divided between two ladies of the underworld and who has become rich through pimping, is worrying about the collapse of the Greek banks. Nicos, King and Makis, ent...

In the powerful last installment in this series about five high school students who band together to help one another confront past and present traumas, it is time for Chelonia, the driving force behind their little club, the girl who seems so outwardly cool and confident, to open up about her own tragic past and accept the help and love of her friends.

Pierre Sonage is an unpopular French writer. Only twelve people attended the presentation of his latest novel. So he decides that the only way to become popular is to die, he commits suicide for PR reasons and then goes to hell. But hell is not the place we think it might be. It's a literary hell, where famous and unknown writers are tortured in the same way as their books used to torture readers: James Joyce writes footnotes of his own footnotes, Jack Kerouac can't stop walking, Samuel Be...

This witty and well-argued graphic novel is a must-have for anyone wanting to learn what power "we the people" actually have in a democracy.Why the people?Is democracy actually the best form of government? Does it ever work like it’s supposed to?Join Lin and Julie in the middle of an airport, as they wonder aloud how America can ever be a democracy when citizens seem to disagree about everything. With them, we are whisked through political history, an...

An uplifting collection of conversations with creative, entrepreneurial, diverse people across Canada.Bloom Across Canada is a fascinating collection of fifty interviews and portraits that celebrate diversity, innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. The women and non-binary people featured in this book represent different backgrounds, creative journeys, and walks of life. They come from every province and territory in Canada, though many have roots i...

A celebration of fifty talented, creative, passionate people (forty-nine women and one nonbinary person) working in the fields of visual art, dance, photography, music, design, comedy, storytelling, food, fashion, beauty, wellness, and advocacy.Bloom Where You Are Planted is a collection of interviews and photography that honours a group of innovative, hard-working, diverse people, whose creative and business ventures inspire, support, and...

When Mac, a young aspiring marine archaeologist in quest of glory and wealth but plagued by the constant worry of abandoning and being abandoned, fortuitously encounters and befriends an incredibly clever kraken, he decides against his will to conceal and protect him. Mac realizes that hiding the colossal beast is no longer an option and will embark on a perilous journey to return the kraken to the sea in the Pacific Ocean on the Nazca Ridge in the Chile Basin, so that his boss, a modern-d...