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Mexikid by Pedro Martín
“Mexikid” is a poignant graphic memoir written by Pedro Martín. It recounts Pedro’s and his family’s story of picking up his grandpa in Mexico and the obstacles they faced along the way. His family drives a cheap RV to Mexico. Throughout the novel, Pedro is able to find out more about his grandpa, and he turns out not to be the boring old man that Pedro thought he was; he’s a war hero, but not in the way that you might think.
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Graceling: The Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds
Graceling: The Graphic Novel is (obviously) the graphic novel adaptation of the book Graceling written by Kristin Cashore. The graphic novel has been transformed and illustrated by Gareth Hinds. The novel is about Katsa, the niece of a king and a graceling. She is one of very few people in her world to possess an incredible skill. She finds out about her powers during one of her uncle’s banquets. Kasta discovered she had the ability to kill with her bare hands. Her old life gets taken away from her and she now travels the kingdoms with her uncle threatening any…
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The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
“The Best We Could Do” by Thi Bui is a memoir in graphic novel form. It recounts her parents’ experiences and recollections escaping from Vietnam to America, as well as their childhood and life in Vietnam. Thi Bui’s parents fled from Vietnam after South Vietnam lost the war against the Communist North. Her parents left almost everything behind to find safety for their children: their families, loved ones, and homeland, but still carried the indelible memories of their old life. Thi Bui took these memories and stories, forming them into this remarkable, emotional, and heartfelt graphic novel.
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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
The tale of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier is a wonderfully unique one, filled to the brim with action and emotion. This novel is about a ten-year-old blind orphan named (you guessed it!) Peter Nimble. Peter has had a horribly hard and sorrowful life. When Peter was less than a year old, his eyes were pecked out by ravens. Then, he was forced to become a thief, living on the streets to have any chance to survive. However, Peter is a surprisingly good thief, as because he’s blind, his other senses are heightened. He can sense…
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Hello! If you’ve been following along or checking the widgets on the side, you would know that I pretty recently started a YouTube channel where I animate these book reviews. If you’ve ever thought hmm, I wish I could see what that looked like on a screen… well now you can! Just go to this link and it’ll bring you straight to my YouTube channel.
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The Secret of Lillian Velvet by Jaclyn Moriarty
The Secret of Lillian Velvet is an absolutely mind-blowing and amazing novel by Jaclyn Moriarty. This book is about (obviously)Lillian Velvet. Lillian Velvet is a very lonely child for a number of reasons: the only person she’s lived with in years is her strict, cranky, mean, grandmother, she is homeschooled and her grandmother won’t let her go out, she hasn’t seen another child in years. However, all this changes on her tenth birthday when her grandmother gives her a pickle jar full of gold coins and some ambiguous instructions that state that she shouldn’t use all the coins in one…
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Spy School by Stuart Gibbs (updated)
Spy School by Stuart Gibbs is undoubtedly one of my favorite series. This book is about a normal twelve-year-old boy named Ben who attends a normal middle school. However, Ben has one incredible skill; He has level 16 math skills and that’s why, on one fateful day, he gets chosen to join a spy school. Ben gets recruited by one of the nation’s top spies, Alexander Hale, a descendant of the Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale. After Agent Hale and Ben check in with his parents to make sure he’s allowed to attend this new school, they promptly set course…
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A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig
A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig is a story that will heal and break your heart in one chapter. It will give you hope only for it to be lost on the next page. This is a story about a poor little boy named Nikolas. Nikolas doesn’t have much in his life, his only belongings being a sled and a little doll made out of a turnip that his mother gifted him long, long ago. However, he has his father, the person who he loves most in the entire world and who loves him back equally as much, if…
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The Key to the Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd
Emma Pearl Casey has lived at her family’s cemetery in the magically haunted town of Blackbird Hollow her entire life. However, when money starts to run short and her grandma can’t afford to keep the cemetery running, she’s forced to sell it off to Warren Steele, a shady businessman in the local area. However, Emma knows of a treasure hidden deep within Blackbird Hollow, and finding it would almost certainly mean that the cemetery would be saved. But it undoubtedly won’t be easy to find this mysterious treasure. Many have tried, yet none have succeeded. Emma Pearl, however, knows she’ll…
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