Subject Guides: Graphic Novels at Trexler Library: Audience

Trexler Library typically collects books for a College 'adult' audience.

But we also have a collection of graphic novels intended for a younger audience which are located in the “Juvenile” section of the library on Level C. Books of this type will have the prefix "JUV" (or sometimes "J") before the Call number.

Examples follow:

'Adult' vs. Juvenile

Babymouse #1: Queen of the World! by Jennifer L. Holm; Matthew Holm (Illustrator)
Call Number: JUV 741.5973 B115h1
ISBN: 9780375932298
Publication Date: 2005-12-27
An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl's slumber party.
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau; Dallas Middaugh (Adapted by); Niklas Asker (Illustrator)
Call Number: JUV D942c
ISBN: 9780375868214
Publication Date: 2012-09-25
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War by Matt Faulkner
Call Number: JUV 741.59 F263g
ISBN: 9781423137351
Publication Date: 2014-04-15
When a letter arrives from the government notifying Koji that he must go to a relocation center for Japanese Americans, he and his mother are forced to leave everything they know behind.
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier (Illustrator)
Call Number: JUV 741.59 T271si
ISBN: 9780545540599
Publication Date: 2014-08-26
Three weeks. Two sisters. One car. A true story. Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be.
The United States Constitution by Jonathan Hennessey; Aaron McConnell (Illustrator)
Call Number: JUV 320.973 H515u
ISBN: 9780809094875
Publication Date: 2008-10-14
An introduction to the United States Constitution, presented in graphic form, detailing important people and events in the creation of the founding document, its Preamble, and twenty-seven amendments.
Gettysburg by C. M. Butzer (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 973.7349 B989g
ISBN: 9780061561764
Publication Date: 2008-12-23
Presents a comic book style depiction of the Battle of Gettysburg, the national movement to create a memorial at the battle site, and the day of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863, drawn from first-person letters, speeches, and other primary sources.