Showing posts with label growing up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label growing up. Show all posts
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Heaven

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A new Katie Skelly book is always cause for celebration. I have read pretty much every book she's made, including  My Pretty Vampire , ...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Hello Sunshine

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Hello Sunshine  has been sitting in my to-read pile for much too long. When I finally began reading it, I had a difficult time putting it do...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Trumpets of Death

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I have not read a graphic novel quite like  Trumpets of Death , and it's a very memorable and haunting book. Its protagonist is Antoine,...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Chickenpox

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As a person with a lot of siblings, I found a bunch to relate to in this book. Chickenpox is a story set in 1994 about Abby and her family....
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Boy vs. Shark

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You know what is still awesome? Libraries! I recently borrowed and read the e-comic version of  Boy vs. Shark  through Libby , because the p...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Steady Rollin': Preacher's Kid, Black Punk, and Pedaling Papa

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I got this book a few years back from a Kickstarter campaign for Birdcage Bottom Books.  Steady Rollin'  is a collection of previously ...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Life Drawing

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It had been a minute since I read any  Love and Rockets , but I recently read  Life Drawing  to check in with what Jaime Hernandez has been...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Fourth Dimensional

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I have been meaning to pick up a couple of books from Cosmic Lion Productions , and with some extra money in my pocket from holiday gifts I ...
Friday, September 5, 2025

Huda F Cares?

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I try to vary where and how I get graphic novels to read, and I was pleasantly surprised to find another book by  Huda Fahmy  in a little fr...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Grommets

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Grommets  is a series I read via the Global Comix  app on my phone, and it is an engaging and moving coming-of-age story. It was definitely ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Holler

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Continuing with my haul of comics from HeroesCon , today I am sharing  Holler  by Jeremy Massie . One of the best parts of going to Charlott...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

I Was A Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator, And Other Musical Meanderings

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One of the highlights of this year's HeroesCon for me was meeting Keith Knight and buying this book from him. I Was A Teenage Michael ...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Huda F Are You?

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I have been meaning to read this book for a while now, ever since I learned about it during a presentation at the Literacy Research Associat...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey

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" Two of my favorite things are comics and hockey, and this book combines both! I cannot think of many books that do both, save for Rob...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Button Pusher

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Button Pusher is a phenomenal graphic novel that manages to explore issues of ADHD in multiple ways, all the time still telling an emotiona...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

I Was Their American Dream

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I am the child of two immigrants, a German and a Greek, which makes me a Gerk ("jerk") is my hilarious joke. I have my own sense o...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Sunburn

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The main character of Sunburn is Rachel, a 16-year-old British teen whose summer plans involve working at a butcher shop where she'll be...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Frizzy

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Sometimes seemingly simple things are super complicated. Take hair, for instance. I don't think much about hair. I have long, straight h...