Teen Summer Reading 2018 Booklist
No matter what you spend your time doing this summer, check out one of these great teen reads at your local library!
Speak: the graphic novel
Melinda Sordino’s high school experience took a horribly wrong turn before it even started.
I am Alfonso Jones
Alfonso Jones is mistakenly shot in a mall by an off duty police officer. How will his death affect his family, the man who shot him and the world at large?
Moving Memoirs
This selection of memoirs will hook you from the first page with their moving accounts of living through trauma and upheaval, both personal and collective.
Meanwhile in Comic Book History…
If you consider yourself a comic book fan and someone asks you “Marvel or DC?” you probably have an answer.
Graphic Reads for English Learners
Graphic novels and graphic nonfiction are great choices for adult English learners. Readers who would ordinarily struggle to grasp the text’s meaning can often understand a story that’s accompanied by illustrations and photographs. Let’s Read English participants … Continued
One Recommendation That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, and his wife, Kelly, who is a Huxley Fellow at in the BioSciences Department Rice University (see: a real scientist), wrote a book.
The Great Graphic Novel
A slew of amazing graphic novels for young adults.
Taproot: A Story about a Gardener and a Ghost
If you’re looking for a little bit of creep and a whole lot of cute, look no further!
Five Notable Recent Non-Fiction Graphic Novels
These five titles are standout books both within their format and as non-fiction in general.