Graphic Novels
Gr 7 Up—Caricature, turnabouts, puns, and gross-out gags are the order of the day in this broad parody of all three books in the "The Hunger Games" trilogy (Scholastic)...
Gr 3–6—Miss Annie is a four-month-old kitten who thinks she is old enough to venture outside into the great wide world...
Gr 1–3—The four apprentices of Sensei Wu-Zane, Cole, Jay, and Kai—find that their master is acting more like a thuggish gang lord than as a wise master of the art of Spinjitzu...
Gr 3 Up—Born into slavery in Tennessee, Love left home to seek work and eventually became an expert roper and marksman in the Old West, an acquaintance of legends such as Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid...
Gr 2–3—A retelling of a traditional Hawaiian tale about Kamohoalii, a shape-shifting shark god...
Gr 8 Up—Great Expectations is the better told of these two classics, but breaking down a 500-page work of literary fiction into 48 pages of graphic text is a much simpler task than retelling the nearly 1000 pages of David Copperfield in the same amount of space, and Morley relies heavily on captions, rather than dialogue, to summarize Copperfield's complicated life story...
Gr 9 Up—Christian, an Australian man, reminisces about a day in his teens when he and his friends skipped school to go surfing but got distracted by tales of a dead body on the train tracks...
Gr 3–6—These books are a fun way to teach basic science, and they are particularly good for readers who struggle with gleaning information from wordy textbooks...
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