middle school graphic novels booktalk
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“A picture is worth a
thousand words.”
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How do photographs and pictures make it easier to understand
a story?
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What are graphic novels?
• Tell the story through pictures
• Look like comic books• Contain dialogue balloons,
panels, sound effects• Can be any genre—humour,
classic literature, romance, adventure, mythology…
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El Deafo• Panda Award book for this
year• Main character= Cece• Author = Cece• All characters are human-
ish rabbits
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Smile• Sixth grade Raina wants to
be a normal girl, but an accident at camp severely injures her two front teeth.
• Also autobiographical
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Sisters• Panda Award book for this
year• Sisters learn to get along
when their parents start having problems
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Big Nate• Several in series (including
on Overdrive)• Trouble seems to find Nate
everywhere he goes
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Robot Dreams• Dog and Robot become
friends, but they are separated (Dog leaves Rusty Robot stuck in the sand)
• Dog tries to make new friends but has difficulty
• Robot dreams of far away places
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Jellaby• Portia just moved into a new
neighborhood with her mom (father has disappeared)
• She has trouble making friends until she meets a purple monster in the woods behind her house.
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Ghostopolis• Garth gets zapped into a
world of ghosts, called Ghostopolis
• He finds he has powers the ghosts don’t have
• The evil leader of Ghostopolis wants to use Garth’s power against the ghosts
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Cardboard• A boy must save his
community when cardboard creatures come to life
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Babymouse• Bored with her
unglamourous life, Babymouse tries to get invited to an exclusive sleepover party
• 18 in the series (we have first 5)
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Squish• Adventures of a school
amoeba who loves Twinkies
• We have first six (#7 just came out in August)
• About the author/illustrator…
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Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
• Very unique format—told entirely in “stuff”
• Like going through someone’s trash can and learning about their life!
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Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick
• Sequel to Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
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Boxers & Saints
• Set in China in 1898 (The Boxer Rebellion)
• Tells two sides of the conflict in two books
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Maus
• Story of a father and son captured during Holocaust
• Different races are represented by animals (Jews are helpless mice; Germans are vicious cats; Polish are pigs
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Boxers & Saints
• Set in China in 1898 (The Boxer Rebellion)
• Tells two sides of the conflict in two books
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The Arrival
• No words at all• Man leaves his wife and
family, boards a ship, and travels to make a new life for his family
• Immigrant experience
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