graphic novel
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Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks
Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the best Faith Erin Hicks graphic that I’ve read since Friends with Boys in 2012. I think she’s done a great job of showing the nuances of keeping the peace versus sticking up for yourself and both Alix…
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Pillow Talk by Stephanie Cooke
Pillow Talk by Stephanie Cooke My rating: 5 of 5 stars Great! Not as risqué as Juliet Takes a Breath but filled with heart and new friends. The sport story is refreshingly not too serious but at the same time emphasizes collegiality and ensemble for building a supportive culture outside of the PFF ring. I…
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The Montague Twins: #1 The Witch’s Hand
The Witch’s Hand by Nathan Page My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m totally biased towards graphic novels and include a lot of them in collection development. This reads like a cross between Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Road to Riverdale Vol. 1 and Scooby-Doo! and the Haunted Castle. For a first in a series,…
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Trillium by Jeff Lemire
Trillium by Jeff Lemire My rating: 5 of 5 stars Jeff Lemire ‘s graphic novel reminds me of this version of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel. As Nika and William come together through time and space and then are separated again, Lemire presents this as happening on two separate planes of…
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Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem by S. Niles, D. Wachter, M. Santoro
Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem by Steve Niles My rating: 5 of 5 stars Set in World War II, our main character struggles to help his grandparents make ends meet. To keep the village safe, a tiny clay man is given to the grandson and he is told to “Get to know…
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A Game for Swallows and I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is such an important book because the voice of young Zeina is so authentic. She doesn’t know that life inside Beirut in the 1980s is unusual as it is as it has always been. The…
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