My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

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Derf Backderf attended high school with one of the most notorious serial killers in United States history, Jeffery Dahmer, and he chronicled that experience in a biographical graphic novel. Backderf allows the reader a glimpse of Dahmer's early days as a disgruntled and alcoholic teen that mutilates animals, to a murderous young adult dealing with frustrating feelings of homosexuality. Dahmer's dysfunctional home life is explored, as are the gruesome details of his murders up until he is caught by police.

Grades 9 & up.


Backderf, D. (2012). My friend Dahmer: A graphic novel. New York, NY: Abrams ComicArts.  

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