2022 Excellence in Graphic Literature Finalists

Children’s Award Finalists – Fiction

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The Adventures of Team Pom: Squid Happens

by Isabel Roxas (Flying Eye Books)

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Forever Home

by Jenny Ayoub (BOOM! Studios)

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Scaredy Squirrel in a Nutshell

by Melanie Watt (Random House BFYR)

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The Fifth Quarter

by Mike Dawson (First Second Books)

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The Princess Who Saved Herself

by Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton & Takeshi Miyazawa (BOOM! Studios)

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The Wolf in Underpants at Full Speed

by Wilfrid Lupano, Mayana Itoïz & Paul Cauuet (Graphic Universe)

Children’s Awards Finalists – Non-Fiction

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The Bug Club

by Elise Gravel (Drawn & Quarterly)

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Jop and Blip Wanna Know (Book 1)

by Jim Benton (HarperAlley)

Middle-Grade Award Finalists – Fiction

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Allergic

by Megan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter (Scholastic)

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Cardboard Kingdom 2

by Chad Sell (Alfred A. Knopf BFYR)

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Turtle in Paradise

by Jennie L. Holm & Savanna Ganucheau (Random House Graphic)

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Artie and the Wolf Moon

by Olivia Stephens (Graphic Universe)

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Delicates

by Brenna Thummler (Oni Press)

Middle-Grade Award Finalists – Non-Fiction

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Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11): A Korean War Tale

by Nathan Hale (Abrams Amulet Books)

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Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab

by Priya Huq (Abrams Amulet Books)

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Marie Curie: A Quest for Light

by Frances Andreasen Østerfelt, Anja Cetti Andersen & Anna Blaszczyk (IDW)

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Yummy

by Victoria Grace Elliott (Random House Graphic)

Young Adult Award Finalists – Fiction

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The Girl from the Sea

by Molly Knox Ostertag (Scholastic Graphix)

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Heartstopper: Volume 4

by Alice Oseman (Scholastic Graphix)

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Home

by Julio Anta & Anna Wieszczyk (Image Comics)

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The Hazards of Love, Book 1: Bright World

by Stan Stanley (Oni Press)

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Himawari House

by Harmony Becker (First Second Books)

Young Adult Award Finalists – Non-Fiction

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Guerilla Green

by Ophelie Damblé & Cookie Kalkair (BOOM! Studios)

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Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me

by Shelby Criswell (Street Noise Books)

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Why She Wrote

by Lauren Burke, Hannah Chapman & Kaley Bales (Chronicle Books)

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I’m a Wild Seed

by Sharon Lee De La Cruz (Street Noise Books)

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We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

by Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa & Matt Sasaki (Chin Music Press/Wing Luke Museum)

Adult Award Finalists – Fiction

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Ballad for Sophie

by Felipe Melo & Juan Cavia (Top Shelf)

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Shadow Life

by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu (First Second Books)

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The Waiting

by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (Drawn & Quarterly)

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Shadow Doctor

by Peter Calloway & Georges Jeanty (AfterShock Comics)

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Tunnels

by Rutu Modan (Drawn & Quarterly)

Adult Award Finalists – Non-Fiction

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Hakim’s Odyssey, Book 1: From Syria to Turkey

by Fabien Tolumé (Graphic Mundi)

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The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn

by New England Cartoonists by Various (Vermont Folklife Center)

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Save it for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest

by Nate Powell (Abrams ComicArts)

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A House Without Windows

by Marc Ellison & Didier Kassaï (Humanoids, Inc.)

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Run: Book One

by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell (Abrams ComicArts)