Surviving The City, Vol. 1

Tasha Spillet
(Graphic Novels - GN Spillet Surviving The City)

Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces.


Antiracist Books for Teens

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  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • Fight Back


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • You Truly Assumed


  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • Free Lunch


  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask


  • Nubia: Real One


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens: CBT Skills to Heal from the Personal and Intergenerational Trauma of Racism


  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask


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  • Genesis Begins Again


  • Omar Rising


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  • Displacement


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


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  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


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  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Free Lunch


  • An Impossible Thing to Say


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  • The Lost Dreamer


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  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • Gone Wolf


  • Persepolis


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


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  • We Are the Scribes


  • Ain't Burned All the Bright


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  • Omar Rising


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  • The Black Flamingo


  • Harvest House


  • Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter


  • We Deserve Monuments


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


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  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • We Are the Scribes


  • Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • Displacement


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens: CBT Skills to Heal from the Personal and Intergenerational Trauma of Racism


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • The 57 Bus


  • We Deserve Monuments


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • You Truly Assumed


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People


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  • The 57 Bus


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People


  • Gone Wolf


  • Run: Book One


  • Felix Ever After


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


  • An Impossible Thing to Say