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It's Complicated: The American Teenager by Robin Bowman (Photographer), Robert Coles (Afterword)In searing and intimate contemporary photographs, the book charts the coming of age of the largest generation ever in America, almost double the 1960s baby boomers. Her intimate photographs invite individuals to look more closely at how complex challenges facing a rising generation of Americans have 
informed individual identities. The photographs also ask us to reconcile preconceived ideas and stereotypes of teenagers with the diversity of individuals in the portraits. The 77 million teenagers now or soon to enter high school are the Gen Y, following on another 50 million they called Gen X. This book is about the inside lives of these kids and how they see their reality.
Arab in America by Toufic El Rassi The eye-opening story of the life of an average Arab-American struggling with his identity in an increasingly hostile nation. Using the graphic novel as his medium, Lebanon-born Toufic El Rassi chronicles his experience growing up Arab in America. Keen observations, clever insights and painful honesty make El Rassi's work shine as a critical 21st century memoir.
to make a sax wail or let loose hot licks on skins, but with the advent of World War II and many men away fighting the war, women finally got their chance to strut their stuff on the bandstand. These all-girl bands kept morale high on the homefront and on USO tours of miltary bases across the globe while also helping to establish America's legacy in jazz music.
informed individual identities. The photographs also ask us to reconcile preconceived ideas and stereotypes of teenagers with the diversity of individuals in the portraits. The 77 million teenagers now or soon to enter high school are the Gen Y, following on another 50 million they called Gen X. This book is about the inside lives of these kids and how they see their reality.
Steel Drumming at the Apollo: The Road to Super Top Dog by Trish Marx, Ellen B. Senisi (Photographer)
Satchel Paige began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s. For years, Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites, kept him out of the major leagues. But they couldn't stop him from becoming a world-class athlete. This is a fictionalized account of a real-life sports hero. To find out more, go to this book's homepage.
Arthur of Albion by John Matthews, Pavel Tatarnikau (Illustrator)
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