{"id":96,"date":"2017-03-14T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-03-14T17:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:37:55","slug":"graphic-novels-quadruple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/2017\/03\/14\/graphic-novels-quadruple\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Novel Quadruple"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Over the Wall by Peter Wartman<\/p>\n

This appears to be the start of a series about a younger sister who is trying to find her older brother who recently went over the wall that surrounds an ancient metropolis and never came back.\u00a0 However, no one ever comes back from over the wall.\u00a0 What is preventing people from coming back?\u00a0 What readers learn is that past humans have employed demons to help with tasks in return for names and stories. The demons got greedy and started eating the names of people so others would forget them and be forgotten.\u00a0 But not all demons are bad, right? One appears to want to help locate this lost brother.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Flying Couch by Amy Kurzweil<\/p>\n

There are many memoirs out there that three generations of women, but this one is beautifully done through art.\u00a0 This book covers Bubbe’s, or grandma’s, escape from the Warsaw ghetto, her mother who is a psychologist constantly psychoanalyzing, and Amy, a Jewish artist trying to figure out her place in the world.<\/p>\n

Each of this voices provides something necessary to the story from a birth-rite trip to Israel, to moving into a retirement community and Bubbe’s often funny accent and perspective.\u00a0 Readers will relate to the idiosyncrasies that we all have in our individual families and discovering our identities.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Camp Midnight by Steven T. Seagle and Jason Adam Katzenstein<\/p>\n

We have all heard of those dreaded summer camp stories. Readers should also be familiar with the “step-monster” element too, the unwanted new interest of your dad who wants nothing to do with you and can’t wait to send you away.\u00a0 That is exactly what happens to Skye in Camp Midnight, but this camp is unlike any she has heard of.\u00a0 They sleep during the day and focus on revealing their true selves in the dark when the moon comes out.\u00a0 There are all kinds of monsters, witches, and ghouls here and they are all waiting for Skye to reveal her true self to the other campers.\u00a0 But what if she isn’t a monster? How can she escape this camp? And what do the other campers show her about her true self?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause<\/p>\n

Probably my favorite of these four titles, the author\/illustrator has an author note at the beginning about where the idea and fears came from.\u00a0 So this is a book that starts with fear #1 and illustrates that through fear #100.\u00a0 Many are legitimate fears and others are laugh-out-loud funny!<\/p>\n

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All four of these graphic novels would be fine in a middle school.\u00a0 I indulged on reading them while sitting at my desk after I unpacked them and was processing them for circulation.\u00a0 Since I have put them on display, all of them have been checked out so clearly my patrons were hungry for some new material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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