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Tag Archives: Gene Luen Yang
Banned Books Week 2021, 1st day
Autumn begins, days are shorter, nights are cooler, and Banned Books Week begins. As promised, this week I’ll provide a daily link to the websites of an organizations involved in bringing attention to censorship. Today, let me introduce you to … Continue reading
The Last Ten Books Tag
This post is inspired by one from Calmgrove, who was himself inspired by one at AnnaBookBel, who borrowed the idea from someone else, and so on and so on. I’m at least 5th generation on this thing, and I hope further … Continue reading
Posted in Am reading, Last Ten Books, Lists
Tagged Eric Ambler, Gene Luen Yang, George Saunders, Katherine Arden
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Ignoring that panicky feeling
Normally this time of year, I’d be stuffing my freezer with nourishing soups to get me through the first week or so of NaNoWriMo. But October has been busier than usual, and this weekend I’m attending my first USBBY conference. That’s the International … Continue reading
Posted in IBBY, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cece Bell, Gene Luen Yang, Kate DiCamillo, Lois Lowry, Susan Cooper
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Summer omnibus, part 1
Once again I find myself with a foot-tall stack of books I’ve read but not yet reviewed for my followers, next to a stack of papers to grade and projects to complete for school, which started 3 weeks ago. Normally, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Fantasy, Graphic Novel, History, Humorous, London Underground, Newbery Award, YA Lit
Tagged Gene Luen Yang, Jack Gantos, Margi Preus, Peter Ackroyd, Sonny Liew
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ABCs
Though written in 3 different decades, these four books run along parallel routes that often meet and the separate, each providing insight for understanding the others. Each is about characters of Chinese heritage, about Chinese immigrants in the US, about … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Graphic Novel, Historical fiction, Newbery Award, YA Lit
Tagged Frank Chin, Gene Luen Yang, Laurence Yep, Maxine Hong Kingston
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