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Who wanted this banned and why?

Class Act by Jerry Craft

October 17, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

Drew Ellis goes to the prestigious Riverdale Academy Day School, but unlike a lot of his more privileged classmates, he feels like he has to work way harder and he still might not get the same opportunities that they do. While a lot of his fellow students live in enormous mansions, Drew lives alone with his grandmother (who has to work almost constantly to provide for him). He also knows that no matter how good his grades are or which school he attends, most people […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #BannedBooks, #CannonballBookClub, #memoir, CBR15, Class Act, comic book, coming-of-age, friendship, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, Malin, middle grade, New Kid, Racism

Malin's CBR15 Review No:61 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #BannedBooks, #CannonballBookClub, #memoir, CBR15, Class Act, comic book, coming-of-age, friendship, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, Malin, middle grade, New Kid, Racism ·
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Real Fictional Comic about a Comic Artist (in middle school)

New Kid by Jerry Craft

September 4, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 8: Picture This Since the book club book I’m thinking I want to start with is part 2 of a series, I figured I’d get a hold of book one first. Somehow, I’d forgotten that New Kid was a graphic novel, so it fits in just fine for Bingo. Turns out the main character want to be a drawer of pictures, so it double works. I was a little unsure about this one before starting it because it was more of a middle grade […]

Filed Under: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: #BannedBooks, cbr15bingo, comic book, coming-of-age, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, New Kid, Newberry Medal winner

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:63 · Genres: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: #BannedBooks, cbr15bingo, comic book, coming-of-age, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, New Kid, Newberry Medal winner ·
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CBR15 Bingo: Picture This

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kokabe

August 4, 2023 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR15 Bingo: Picture This (can also be used for Queer Lives) Official book description: In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #BannedBooks, #memoir, CBR Book Club, CBR15, cbr15bingo, coming-of-age, Gender identity, Gender Queer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQIA, Maia Kokabe, Malin, Picture This, Sexuality

Malin's CBR15 Review No:35 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #BannedBooks, #memoir, CBR Book Club, CBR15, cbr15bingo, coming-of-age, Gender identity, Gender Queer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQIA, Maia Kokabe, Malin, Picture This, Sexuality ·
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Dear Reading Community Post eight

September 23, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Dear Reading Community,    Ya think? Thank you, A fellow reader Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #BannedBooks

Genres: Fiction · Tags: #BannedBooks ·
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Dear Reading Community Post seven

September 23, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Dear Reading community, Yes, I agree that this is some heavy stuff. And yes, I think the ages some schools use this with might not be appropriate, but that doesn’t mean we need to stop all readers from access. Thank you, A fellow reader

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #BannedBooks

Genres: Fiction · Tags: #BannedBooks ·
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Dear Reading Community Post six

September 23, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Dear Reading Community, Well they didn’t call her Little Red for nothin’.   Seriously though, wine is your issue? Not that she is “eaten” (and interpret that anyway you wish). Thank you, A fellow reader

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #BannedBooks

Genres: Fiction · Tags: #BannedBooks ·
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