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  • List: Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Fiction
  • Genre: Graphic Novel
  • Genre: Nonfiction
  • Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

    Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

    By Lita Judge

    Mary Shelley first began penning Frankenstein as part of a dare to write a ghost story, but the seeds of that story were planted long before that night. Mary, just nineteen years old at the time, had been living on her own for three years and had already lost a baby days after birth. She was deeply in love with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a mad man who both enthralled and terrified her, and her relationship with him was rife with scandal and ridicule. But rather than let it crush her, Mary fueled her grief, pain, and passion into a book that the world has still not forgotten 200 years later. Dark, intense, and beautiful, this free-verse novel with over 300 pages of gorgeous black-and-white watercolor illustrations is a unique and unforgettable depiction of one of the greatest authors of all time.

  • Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

    Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

    By Liz Prince

    With the help of new friends, feminist zines, and the punk scene, tomboy Liz Prince discovers that her problem is not who she is, but society's restrictive gender roles.
  • The Trouble with Women

    The Trouble with Women

    By Jacky Fleming

    Can women be geniuses? Or are their arms too short? Did we only learn about three women at school? What were all the others doing? The Trouble With Women does for girls what 1066 and All That did for boys: it reminds us of what we were taught about women in history lessons at school, which is to say, not a lot. A brilliantly witty book of cartoons, it reveals some of our greatest thinkers' baffling theories about women. We learn that even Charles Darwin, long celebrated for his open, objective scientific mind, believed that women would never achieve anything important, because of their smaller brains. Get ready to laugh, wince and rescue forgotten women from the 'dustbin of history', whilst keeping a close eye out for tell-tale "genius hair." You will never look at history in the same way again.