![]() ![]() When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. MY FAVOURITE THING IS MONSTERS by Emil Ferris This funny perceptive graphic novel memoir about growing up hearing impaired is also an unforgettable book about growing up, and all the super and super embarrassing moments along the way. Can Cece channel her powers into finding the thing she wants most, a true friend? But the funny thing about being a superhero is that it’s just another way of feeling different… and lonely. Maybe even superpower! Cece is on her way to becoming El Deafo, Listener for All. With the Phonic Ear she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere her teacher is in school - in the hallway… in the teacher’s lounge… in the bathroom! This is power. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece’s class was deaf. The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy is complete! Celebrate with this commemorative set containing all three volumes of March in a stunning new slipcase designed by Nate Powell and Chris Ross and colored by Jose Villarrubia.ĮL DEAFO by CeCe Bell, coloured by David Lasky Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole). His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president. THE MARCH TRILOGY by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell and coloured by Jose VillarrubiaĬongressman John Lewis (GA-5) was an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. Not sure how to place holds? Visit this Guide for details. Visit our online catalogue to place holds on these titles. Watch this and past episodes on the TBPL Facebook page or YouTube channel. ![]() Notes from the fall 2020 edition of Read This Next. ![]()
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