Graphic Novels
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...
Gr 9 Up—Takagi Fujimaru is a high school student with a secret double life as the Falcon, an infamous hacker who is known for exposing injustice...
Gr 7 Up—Ichiro is the son of a Japanese mother and an American father, a soldier who died years ago...
Gr 2–4—Residing in roughly the same territory as Dav Pilkey's recent gross-out graphic novel, The Adventures of Ook and Gluk (Scholastic, 2010), Fangbone! is the goofy first installment in a series that will likely be a hit with reluctant readers...
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