Surviving The City Volume 2: From The Roots Up By: Tasha Spillett

Genre: Realistic Fiction/Graphic Novel
Age Recommendation:  Grade 7/8

This is the second graphic novel in the Surviving The City series and is a Red Maple 2022 nominee.  In this book, we learn more about best friends, Miikwan and Dez.  Dez's grandmother has passed away and Dez is now coping with living in a group home.  Miikwan and Dez are still best friends, but Dez now has a special friendship with another youth from her group home.  Dez is learning more about herself and her identity as a Two-Spirit person.  All of the characters learn more about allowing people to live as their true selves.  This is an interesting sequel to volume one and I learned a lot from this book.