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August 28th is International Read Comics in Public Day Comic books are often degraded; you can't count how many times a librarian has overheard the phrase, "read a real book!" meant to get a reader to turn their attention to something more traditional. But actually there are a lot of reasons to get caught reading comic books! 1) Narratives in comics often mirror current social issues, offering intellectually stimulating and empowering stories--they deal with topics like grief, growing up, and other hardships people face everyday. 2) Comic books help us think differently. Integrating and processing the different components, visual, spatial, and textual, to create one solid understanding of the story is forcing readers to create meaning using multiple modalities. This means that though one might be drawn to comics for similar reasons their drawn to TV or video games (pretty pictures!) they actually involve much more complex processing. 3) Graphic novels often contain higher level vocabulary then print-only books at the same reading level-- see that research here!
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A man & his cat vol. 1
by Umi Sakurai
"In the pet shop he calls home, a chubby, homely cat whiles away the hours listening to coos of delight from potential pet parents...but he knows it's not him they're fussing over. Having all but given up on life, the feline dejectedly awaits his first birthday, when he'll officially be past his sell-by date. So when an older gentleman comes into the shop and wants to take him home, the kitten himself is most shocked of all!"
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Keeping two
by Jordan Crane
"A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie, each of the young lovers is individually forced to confront loss, grief, fear, and insecurities in unexpected and shocking ways"
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Radium girls
by Cy
"A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers' rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918"
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Always never
by Jordi Lafebre
"After forty years of being madly in love, Ana and Zeno are finally retiring and giving their romance a chance to bloom while they both still have time left. A unique but relatable love story told in reverse, with each chapter stepping further back through the decades of touch and go courting, showing both the heartbreaking moments that kept the two lovers apart and the beautiful moments that kept their flame alive"
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Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
Lord Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, and his sidekick, Nimona, an impulsive young shapeshifter, must prove to the kingdom that Sir Goldenloin and the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are. Soon to be a Netflix movie!
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