Key Selling Points A contemporary graphic novel series about young Indigenous women navigating their way in an urban environment. Book 1 in the series, Surviving the City , has won and has been nominated for a host of awards: winner of the Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Award, Graphic Novel category; co-winner of the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author; and winner of the Indigenous Voices Award, alternate format. Surviving the City has been nominated for the 2020 MYRCA Northern Lights list and is shortlisted for the Forest of Reading 2020 Red Maple Award (Fiction). It was also an In the Margins Top Fiction Novel for 2020 and is on YALSA's 2020 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list Written by an Indigenous female author about a tragic topic--Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and two-spirit people, the main characters are young Indigenous women supported by Indigenous women from their community. Additional reference material concerning Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and two-spirit people. A free teacher's guide is available for classroom use.