READ Collection: Graphic Novels & Short Stories

Chronicles the explorations of a young man as he paddles from his home in the North Pole to the South Pole. There, he meets his true love, but their romance is ill-fated. Early Earth's unusual and finicky polarity means the lovers can never touch.

Told in a heartbreaking and fiercely funny way, about Alison and her brothers growing up in a funeral home. The book focuses on Allison's complex relationship with her father and the process of coming out to her family in late adolescence. 232 pages.

A brainwashed alien superhero is deposited on Earth to be the spotlight of an intrusive, around-the-clock television program being filmed without his knowledge.

A graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic about Dana, a young black writer, who can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.

The story of the unlikely and inseparable friendship between two boys caught in the tragic sweep of history-- from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the horrific rule of the Taliban. 132 pages.

Tony Sandoval was born and raised in northwestern Mexico, where the temptation to cross the border in the US ultimately becomes a matter of the heart. 80 pages.

Follows the story of a young family trying to survive an interstellar conflict. 160 pages.

Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are dead.

And other classic mystery stories