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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Jane has just moved to town when a skateboard accident turns into a date with the cute guy who sells soup on the corner. Jack and Jane get along great; they're both young, broke, and enjoying a laid-back lifestyle. But Jack has dated a lot of the women that Jane knows, and their bad experiences with Jack lead them to form the Cute Girl Network, which is dedicated to spreading the word about Jack and his many shortcomings. Will Jack shape up for Jane? Will Jane take her friends' advice? Will Jane and Jack break up? Living life according to yourself is hard to do, but sometimes it's necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Appeal: adult relationships, friendship, good female characters</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Text: Conversational, casual</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Awards: M.K. Reed's <i>Americus</i> was a YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Means, Greg. Reed, M. K. Flood, Joe. The Cute Girl Network. New York : First Second, 2013 . Print.</span>Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-27695176512986386982014-05-21T20:28:00.001-07:002014-05-21T20:29:12.267-07:00Happy Happy Clover by Sayuri Tatsuyama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Appeal: Cute, animals, all ages, growing up, friendship</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Text: Busy but simple, exclamatory</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Awards: Tatsuyama's previous work, about puppies and other pets, won the Shogakukan Manga Award for kids' manga in 2001.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Tatsuyama, Sayuri, Sayuri Amemiya, and Kaori Inoue. </span><i style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Happy Happy Clover</i><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">. San Francisco, Calif. : Viz Media, 2007. Print.</span>Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-87806711148146338882014-05-21T20:16:00.001-07:002014-05-21T20:35:29.109-07:00Elmer by Gerry Alanguilan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On one ordinary day more than 20 years ago, all at once, every chicken on Earth gained sentience and human-level intelligence. This is Filipino chicken Elmer's story, told from a journal left to his son, Jake. From those first hellish days hiding from furious humans, to the fight for human rights, to his middle years trying to provide for his family, Elmer dealt with traumatic experiences and tried his best throughout his life. This story is so real you can feel the heat of the fires and hear Elmer's panic during the burning of the slaughterhouse where he gained sentience.</div>
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Art: Black and white, realistic, grounded</div>
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Other: The story was inspired by the chickens that wandered the streets of Gerry Alanguilan's hometown of San Pablo City during his childhood. <i>Elmer </i>was originally published in the Phillippines, and was released in English and French in 2010.</div>
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Awards: <i>Elmer</i> won the Prix Ouest-France Quai des Bulles and the Prix Asien de la Critique ACBE in 2011.</div>
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Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-76080237529048288762014-05-21T20:12:00.002-07:002014-05-21T20:34:32.603-07:00Static Shock: Trial by Fire by Dwayne McDuffie and Robert L. Washington<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">McDuffie, Dwayne and Robert L. Washington. Static Shock!: Trial By Fire. New York, NY : DC Comics, 2000. Print.</span></div>
Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-86251271781402014742014-05-04T21:03:00.000-07:002014-05-04T21:03:59.560-07:00Mixed Myth by Robin Meyer<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mixed Myth is a parody of every fantasy trope you can name. Is the main character, Keeva, a half-elf? She is indeed, but the other half is goblin, and since goblins and elves are mortal enemies, family reunions are awkward. Does Keeva have a drunken sidekick? Yes she does, and he's a literal nightmare, a demon horse named Puck. Does Keeva meet an attractive stranger? How did you know? Aidan is a half-selkie werewolf assassin who quickly gives up his mission to kill Keeva as impossible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Keeva is a firebrand, seizing the day and all the explosive phoenix eggs she can find, as likely to blow something up as she is to save world. Unfortunately, saving the world just became her responsibility, so along with Puck, Aidan, and Tamit (a sphinx so mysterious she can barely remember her own name), they set out to save the world from a fate so dramatic you'll be shocked-- <i>shocked! </i>The plot is intricate and brilliant, the characters are deep, and the wit is biting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Appeal: Fantasy, parody, good female characters, elves, puns</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Art: Grayscale, detailed, flowing, fantastical</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Text: Humorous, dramatic, ironic</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Other: Robin Meyer's other projects since Mixed Myth's completion include <a href="http://metrophor.com/">Metrophor</a> and <a href="http://rlfcomic.com/">Real Life Fiction</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Meyer, Robin. "Mixed Myth." mixedmyth.comicgenesis.com. Web. 4 May 2014.</span>Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-14633834927193198892014-05-04T20:40:00.000-07:002014-05-04T20:40:20.515-07:00Safe Havens by Bill Holbrook<h2>
Safe Havens</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Samantha Argus, 26, is the foremost expert in genetics at Havens University and perhaps in the world</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. In fact, she's cracked the code that lets ordinary humans transform into any living thing at the drop of a hat and has cloned a few dodos back to life. The world isn't quite ready for this knowledge yet, though, so she keeps it under wraps while she works as a dorm RA, professor, and researcher. But life isn't all boring-- her fellow RA is a talking cat, her husband's overseas agent is a time traveler, and her late grandmother can talk to her from heaven through any reflective surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Safe Havens began life as a syndicated comic strip in 1988, set in a daycare called Safe Havens. The characters have aged in real time and are having children of their own now. Dave Hamper grew into a professional basketball player and Samantha's husband; Thomas Volant is a Cirque du Soleil performer married to a mermaid, with a trapeze-swinging, half-fish son; and Bambi is a famous singer with plans to travel to Mars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Safe Havens is available online at <a href="http://safehavenscomic.com/">safehavenscomic.com</a>. The <a href="http://safehavenscomic.com/?webcomic1=2010-08-09">first comic posted online</a> is from October 2010.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Appeal: Science fiction, puns, black representation, anthropomorphism, adult relationships</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Other: Bill Holbrook also writes <a href="http://www.kevinandkell.com/">Kevin & Kell</a>, an anthropomorphic comic strip, and <a href="http://www.onthefastrack.com/">On the Fastrack</a>, a strip set in the technology offices of Fastrack, Inc. Some characters from On the Fastrack appear in Safe Havens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Holbrook, Bill. "Safe Havens." safehavenscomic.com. Web. 4 May 2014.</span>Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-15558585097609994282014-05-04T20:14:00.000-07:002014-05-04T20:14:02.252-07:00Girls with Slingshots by Danielle Corsetto<h2>
Girls with Slingshots</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is online at <a href="http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/index.php">girlswithslingshots.com</a>. <a href="http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws1/">Read from the first comic here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Appeal: Slice of life, making it in the world, family relationships, friendship, queer representation</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Art: Shifts dramatically from detailed realism in the first years to the current bright, cartoony style</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Text: Conversational, sarcastic, personal</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Other: Danielle Corsetto has been cartooning since she was 8 years old. She began Girls With Slingshots in 2004, and it became her full-time job in 2007. Corsetto has worked on the <i>Adventure Time </i>comic book and <i>The New Adventures of Bat Boy</i> for the Weekly World News.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Corsetto, Danielle. "Girls with Slingshots." girlswithslingshots.com. Web. 4 May 2014.</span></div>
Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-43716405987856076072014-05-04T19:51:00.000-07:002014-05-04T21:04:25.449-07:00The Non-Adventures of Wonderella by Justin Pierce<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pierce, Justin. "The Non-Adventures of Wonderella." nonadventures.com. Web. 4 May 2014.</span>Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-87415971749568760702014-05-04T18:38:00.000-07:002014-05-04T21:06:19.748-07:00Something*Positive by R.K. Milholland<h2>
Something Positive</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Text: Dark humor, conversational, mature</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Other: R.K. Milholland writes two other comics: Super Stupor, a dark parody of superheroes, and Rhymes With Witch, watercolor illustrations of very dark children's cautionary tales. Both are available from somethingpositive.net.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Awards: Something Positive won the Web Cartoonists Choice Award for Outstanding Character Writing in 2005, and for Outstanding Dramatic Comic in 2006. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Milholland, R.K. "Something Positive." somethingpositive.net. Web. 4 May 2014.</span></div>
Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-63199207274876858912014-05-04T17:45:00.004-07:002014-05-04T19:31:43.349-07:00El Goonish Shive by Dan Shive<h2>
El Goonish Shive</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">Soon after that, Elliot, Ellen (the clone), and Tedd befriend Grace, an alien-squirrel-human hybrid lab escapee; Nanase, Eliot's former girlfriend and martial arts partner; Justin, another martial artist with a crush on Elliot; Susan, an aloof classmate who can summon magic hammers; and Sarah. Sarah is normal. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This comic ranges from funny to dramatic as the characters handle high school, changing relationships, evil teachers, evil laboratory experiments, and evil magic-users. Readers who enjoy Percy Jackson and the Olympians will enjoy the magic, drama, and action of El Goonish Shive.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is available at <a href="http://www.egscomics.com/">EGScomics.com</a>. <a href="http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1">Read it from the beginning here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Other: El Goonish Shive began in 2002 and is ongoing as of May 2014. Its name comes from Dan Shive's inability to summarize the comic in a short title. The "goon" comes from a high school nickname, the "Shive" is the author's last name, and the rest is gibberish conceived of in Spanish class.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Shive, Dan. "El Goonish Shive." egscomics.com. Web. 4 May 2014.</span>Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-52041630899151295802014-05-04T12:01:00.000-07:002014-05-04T12:01:41.971-07:00Aya by Marguetire Abouet and Clément Oubrerie<h2>
Aya</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Aya is a serious-minded 19-year-old living in the Ivory Coast in the 1970s. It's a time of prosperity for the country, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. Aya tries to give her friends good advice and resigns herself to helping them manage the fallout of bad choices. In this first book of six, for example, Aya helps her friend Adjoua raise her newborn son as they try to prove his paternity so that Adjoua's boyfriend will marry her. Aya joins in the parties, and the gossip around her but always with an eye toward her future. This is a realistic, funny, soap operatic story about middle-class life from a talented storyteller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Text: Conversational, vernacular, argumentative</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Awards: Aya won the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book in 2006, the Children's Africana Book Award in 2008, and several Glyph Awards.<br /><br />Abouet, Marguerite. Oubrerie, Clément. Dascher, Helge. Aya. Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly ; 2007. Print</span>Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-83147029078975009652014-05-04T11:36:00.003-07:002014-05-04T11:36:25.320-07:00W Juliet by Emura<h2>
W Juliet</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Other: <i>W Juliet</i> was originally published in Japan from 1999 to 2003. It has also been adapted into a series of drama CDs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Emura, William Flanagan, and Mark McMurray. W Juliet. San Francisco : Viz, 2004. Print.</span></div>
Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-8332250678343722492014-05-04T11:09:00.001-07:002014-05-04T11:16:05.455-07:00Gon by Masashi Tanaka<h2>
Gon</h2>
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Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-41477568660065001262014-05-04T10:44:00.003-07:002014-05-04T10:44:39.644-07:00Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag by A.K. Summers<h2>
Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spend in Drag</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Does it matter if pregnancy is a <b>wrong</b><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>state for me? So what if I don't find it deeply satisfying to get in touch with my essential womanhood? Isn't it all right to permit some disjuncture to intrude on one's sense of self?"</span></div>
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Johnny Hiro: Half-Asian, All Hero</h2>
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Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-26264989039315091292014-05-03T21:36:00.000-07:002014-05-03T21:36:23.821-07:00Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen and Faith Erin Hicks<h2>
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong</h2>
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Boxers & Saints</h2>
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Little Bao's village is terrorized by Westerners claiming to be missionaries working for God, who steal and rob the Chinese peasants. Little Bao is inspired by his own visions of Chinese gods and legends to stand up to the Westerners, and to fight back.</div>
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Four-Girl's and Little Bao's lives take very different paths, intersecting twice and ending the same way, governed by religious and political wars, conflict, and intolerance. Readers who enjoyed <i>American Born Chinese</i> will find value in this book as well.<br /><br />Appeal: history, China, religion, war, high school and up<br /><br />Art: Bold, definite, fantastical, symbolic<br /><br />Text: Elements of traditional Chinese storytelling, mostly narration.<br /><br />Other: Gene Luen Yang has also written<i> American Born Chinese, Level Up</i>, and <i>The Eternal Smile: Three Stories. American Born Chinese</i> wong the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award, the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album, and the 2006 Reuben Award for Best Comic Book. It was an ALA Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens in 2007.<br /><br />Awards: <i>Boxers & Saints </i>had a starred review in Kirkus Reviews and Publisher's Weekly. In 2013 it won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adult Literature and was a Booklist Top Ten Religion and Spirituality Book for Youth.</div>
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Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-68316350852155022782014-05-03T21:05:00.000-07:002014-05-03T21:05:10.478-07:00Bake Sale by Sara Varon<h2>
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Cupcake runs his own bakery and plays drums in a band with his friends, but lately he's been feeling like he's stuck in a rut. When his friend Eggplant invites him along on a trip to Turkey, Cupcake is motivated to work extra hard to earn the money for a plane ticket. His extra work interferes with band practice, though, and he is replaced by an avocado. Then Eggplant loses his job and can't go on the trip. Cupcake has to decide what to do, and what will make him happiest. Several of Cupcake's recipes are included in the book. Readers who enjoy this book might enjoy Varon's other works with similar themes, such as <i>Robot Dreams</i> and <i>Odd Duck</i>.</div>
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Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-35749740764529566292014-05-03T21:04:00.000-07:002014-05-04T21:05:56.823-07:00Babymouse: Dragonslayer by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm<h2>
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Babymouse is having trouble in math. None of the numbers make sense and even her big imagination isn't helping. Then her math teacher recruits her for the mathletes team, figuring that a little competition and some encouragement from her teammates will help Babymouse succeed. Together they learn about math, and come competition time, Babymouse uses her new skills along with<i> </i>her copious imagination to overcome the dragon that is mathematics.</div>
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Holm, Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew. Babymouse: Dragonslayer. New York : Random House Children's Books, 2009. Print.</div>
Comics Are For Everybodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195968147324051323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2924145870629274330.post-48827873238457509642014-05-03T20:58:00.000-07:002014-05-03T20:58:02.624-07:00Little Mouse Gets Ready: A Toon Book by Jeff Smith<h2>
Little Mouse Gets Ready: A Toon Book</h2>
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Callie loves theater-- her singing is terrible, but she has great ambitions for the sets onstage her middle school play. When two cute brothers become involved in the drama club, Callie finds herself in a whirl of crushes, misunderstandings, and confusing feelings. Callie likes one of the brothers, but does he like her back? Is one of the brothers gay? Why won't one annoying boy leave Callie alone? And how can she make the prop cannon work in the third act? This is a funny and light-hearted look at middle school drama that nonetheless treats the characters' troubles as important and worthy of consideration.</div>
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