Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Squire

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Squire  is a book I have had on my to-read shelf for too long, and I am so glad I finally got to it. It is about Aiza, a young woman who bel...
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...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Lunar New Year Love Story

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The 2025 Eisner Award winner for Best Publication for Teens,  Lunar New Year Love Story  is a book that I approached much differently than ...
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...
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...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Parachute Kids

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Parachute Kids is a compelling and moving graphic novel about immigration. It is set in the early 1980s, but I feel that the issues and expe...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy

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  I caught a lot of teasing about my name throughout my schooling, and I cannot imagine what it would have been if I had been called Booger ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

I Am Not Starfire

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I Am Not Starfire is another graphic novel in DC Comics's YA line, and I'd say that this book is 2/3 YA book, 1/3 superhero adventu...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Our Stories Carried Us Here

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Our Stories Carried Us is a graphic anthology of first-person narratives told by immigrants to the US. They came from a variety of countries...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

The Magic Fish

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The Magic Fish is a gorgeous and touching book that melds together contemporary life with fairy tales. Its main character is Tiến, a teenag...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Maria M.

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If Maria M. were a movie, it'd be more than three hours long and with an ending that would put Scarface 's to shame. You know w...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Illegal

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As I've written in a few reviews over the past year, immigration has been a hot button topic in the US, and an area of great shame a...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth

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Issues about immigration and its impact on families have been prominent in the current US political scene, with a gross amount of injustic...
Friday, August 25, 2017

The Best We Could Do

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Parenthood changes a person, and it is the framing sequence of The Best We Could Do , a complex, heartfelt, and evocative book that touche...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The Shadow Hero

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Gene Yang is one of the premier comics creators working today. He won the Printz Award for his graphic novel American Born Chinese , and...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Ichiro

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This is a tough book to explain because it has a lot going on. Ichiro is a young son of a Japanese woman and American GI who finds himsel...
Friday, February 10, 2012

The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti

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During the 20th century, there were numerous cases dubbed the "trial of the century" but one that had international repercussions...