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The Game Over Girl

By Naomi Gibson

Lola's been selected to play a new virtual reality game 'Better Than Life' at her new boarding school. In her game, she's loved. Is beautiful. Can do whatever she wants. But she quickly breaks the one rule: notto recreate people or places from real life. She recreates her house and a boy she fancies. Soon she's skipping school to play.

But Lola has secrets - dark ones that begin to surface inside her game - and the more she tries to fix her problems, the more she overlooks a much bigger threat......

Senior Graphic Novel

Numb To This 

Memoir of a Mass Shooting

By Kindra Neely

This searing graphic memoir portrays the issue of gun violence through a fresh lens giving it urgency, humanity and a very personal hope.

Kindra Neely never expected it to happen to her. No one does. Sure, she'd sometimes been close to gun violence, like when the house down the street from her childhood home in Texas was targeted in a drive-by shooting. But now she lived in Oregon, where she spent her time swimming in rivers with friends or attending classes at the bucolic Umpqua Community College.

And then, one day, it happened: a mass shooting shattered her college campus. Over the span of a few minutes, on October 1, 2015, eight students and a professor lost their lives. And suddenly, Kindra became a survivor. This empathetic and ultimately hopeful graphic memoir recounts Kindra's journey forward from those few minutes that changed everything.

It wasn't easy. Every time Kindra took a step toward peace and wholeness, a new mass shooting devastated her again. Las Vegas. Parkland. She was hopeless at times, feeling as if no one was listening. Not even at the worldwide demonstration March for Our Lives. But finally, Kindra learned that, for her, the path toward hope was through art, helping others, and sharing her story.

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