Peace is a four-letter word
Janet Nichols Lynch
When high school student Emily Rankin meets a radical English teacher, the popular cheerleader begins to question her own basic values, the war in Iraq, and the direction her future will take.

by Keith Knight (2008)
". . . Rapper/cartoonist Knight's ink-heavy strip is big on sight gags, inventive panel layouts and exaggerated gestures--and this omnibus volume shows a revealing arc in the strip's tone. The first part of the book, which begins in the early 1990s, sees Knight riffing on food, family, music and the life of a comic book artist in a scratchy, expressive style. As the strips progress and move into the 21st century, real-world events start to intrude, and the topic veers toward the political more often than not."--Publisher's Weekly.
Janet Nichols Lynch
When high school student Emily Rankin meets a radical English teacher, the popular cheerleader begins to question her own basic values, the war in Iraq, and the direction her future will take.
Emil Ostrovski
Westing is not your typical school. For starters, you have to have one very important quality in order to be admitted you have to be dying. Every student at Westing has been diagnosed with PPV, or the Peter Pan Virus, and no one is expected to live to graduation. What do you do when you go to a high school where no one has a future or any clue how to find meaning in their remaining days?
script, Carlos Valderrama
"In a Dystopian future in which giant monsters rule the Earth's surface and humanity has been driven underground, two friends discover that ambition is the worst monster, and it will grow until it devours you"--