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Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832Wilfrid Lupano, Stéphane FertNominee2026

Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832

by Wilfrid Lupano, Stéphane Fert, translated by Montana Kane

Nominated. Each year the judges shortlist only a handful of books in each category, so a nomination is a mark of a book the comics world rates among the best of its year.

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Memoir and real lives, Friendship and school
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