Showing posts with label social issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social issues. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Pushing Buttons

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This "futuristic workplace kerfuffle" recently came to my attention via social media, and I was very glad to buy and read a copy. ...
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...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Save It For Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest

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We are living through "interesting times," and Save It For Later is a great collection of essays that survey much of what has bee...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Montana Diary

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Montana Diary is an interesting travelogue/mini-comic that melds history with current politics. It is about a road trip through "Big Sk...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden is a sprawling memoir/historical essay that almost defies categorization. It starts off as a personal hi...
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...
Monday, February 15, 2021

BTTM FDRS

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BTTM FDRS is a complicated, thought-provoking, and entertaining book that melds social issues with a horror story. Its protagonist is a youn...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

Green Lantern: Legacy

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Last year, DC Comics started an imprint that published YA book versions of their characters written by prominent YA authors. I read one of t...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Hot Comb

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Like Fights , Hot Comb is a book that explores childhood, race, and growing through an unique lens, in this case hair care. It is a collec...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

The Hard Tomorrow

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Imagine it's 2022, and Mark Zuckerberg is president. That's the premise of The Hard Tomorrow , the latest book from Eleanor Davis...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

No Ivy League

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I got No Ivy League from my colleague Jason DeHart (THANK YOU!), while rooming together at the recent annual meeting of the Literacy Res...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Strange Fruit Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History

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I very much enjoyed the first Strange Fruit book, so much that I included it in a chapter in a book on children's literature in the c...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

March: Book Three

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I have been remiss in reading this book, especially since it won a National Book Award . I thought that the second book in the trilogy wa...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

March: Book Two

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The second book in a trilogy can feel padded out, like the author is laying the groundwork for the grand conclusion but still holding back...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Not Funny Ha Ha: A Handbook for Something Hard

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To say abortion is a hot-button topic in the US is an understatement. Political groups use it as a wedge issue; religious groups typically...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade

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Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade is an energetic and bombastic look at one of the greatest basketball players of all time who also happens...