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|author=Edel Rodriguez
|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…
|isbn=1474616720
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kia Ahankoob
|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.
|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
}}
{{Frontpage
|author=Pat Grant
|title=The Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a mother and her two sons aim to set up a yoghurt factory. You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a really rough-and-ready dump of a place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to be had – the only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the use of it is never really made clear. Once there, the two brothers set themselves each up with a guide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, industrious of the two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?
|isbn=1603094660
}}
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|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)
|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels, History, Politics and Society
|summary=I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.
|isbn=1684056993
|isbn=1401282555
}}
{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn=1401286208|title="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Black Canary: Ignite<!-- |author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee -->|-rating=3.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Graphic Novels|[[image:1401286208.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwMeet Dinah Lance.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401286208/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and Cara McGee]]=== [[image:3follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that But it's actually more a case of her policeman father will not allow voice finding her to try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader , as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, or a power. But in order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past… [[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1401280048|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel<!-- |author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->|-rating=4| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Graphic Novels[[image:1401280048.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401280048/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose]]=== [[image:4starThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable he wants to do charitable deeds. But one – night, when he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystandersspeeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, paparazzihe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the age of eighteenhome for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy There he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do learns of some other people who also allege charitable deeds. But one nightintent – the Nightwalkers, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminala gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, get close to one of them and gets given get the most unlikely stretch truth of community service instead – cleaning in their schemes, or will the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any tenyoung do-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them gooder?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1401283292|title=Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder? [[Batman: Nightwalker: The Steve Pugh|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris WildgooseNovels|Full Review]] <!-- Tamaki and Pugh -->|-| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401283292Harleen Quinzel is new in town.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401283292/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and Steve Pugh]]=== [[image:3seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] But here she is new in town, [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Harleen Quinzel and the town is new in townGotham City. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a Expecting a year-long timefurlough from life with her mother, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to look out stay with a bunch of those large eyes at everything anew each timedrag queens. But here she She also finds school is new in towna drag, and she also finds the town whole neighbourhood is Gotham City. Expecting being redeveloped by a year-long furlough from life with her mother, large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queenslife. She also finds school One is a dragcivil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by only meets at night – a lad with a large singular graffiti tag and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivya mind for violence and chaos, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls who calls himself The Joker… [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|Full Review]] <!-- Paige -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=140128339X| styletitle="widthMera: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Tidebreaker[[image:140128339X.jpg|linkauthor=http://wwwDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|rating=4.amazon.co.uk/dp/140128339X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Graphic Novels|summary===[[Meet Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Meet Mera. She's the latest in a line of She's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is , in fact , trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes go to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done… [[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]}}<!-- Pearson -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1401286399| styletitle="widthSuper Sons: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez[[image:1401286399.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401286399/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Graphic Novels| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Ridley Pearson It's the near future, and Ile Gonzalez]]=== [[image:4starevery coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]]But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Itforcing many people to relocate in America's the near futurebiggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, and every coastal city of course – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrierfirst, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But he was patching up the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threatdams, forcing many people to relocate in Americabut now he's biggest exodus mining the asteroid belt for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first he was patching up the dams, but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]] <!-- Major -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=168369015X| styletitle="widthManfried the Man: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow[[image:168369015X.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/168369015X/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Graphic Novels| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel by Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] In a world where cats stand on two feetHe's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried. He's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But when a window gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, the only thing for it is a massive and energised man-hunt… [[Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel by Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Hainsworth -->|isbn=Hainsworth_Gina|-title=Talking to Gina| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Ottilie Hainsworth[[image:Hainsworth_Gina.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1908434988?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1908434988]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Graphic Novels|summary===[[Talking to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Pets|Pets]] ''This is what happened''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you, because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted. [[Talking to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth|Full Review]]}}<!-- Colfer -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Colfer_Illegal| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Illegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin[[image:Colfer_Illegal.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1444934007?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1444934007]] Graphic Novels| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Illegal by Eoin Colfer Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and Andrew Donkin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Ebo now he doesn't know where his brother is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he either but knows that he has probably done the same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the Sahara Desert, get himself to Tripoli, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, and then try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, even if he makes it, how will he find his sister? [[Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|Full Review]]}}<!-- Miller -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Miller_Batman| styletitle="widthBatman: 10%; vertical-alignDark Knight III: top; text-align: center;"|The Master Race[[image:Miller_Batman.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://wwwFrank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=3.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1401265138?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1401265138]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Graphic Novels|summary===[[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello]]=== [[image:3is not playing ball.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Batman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandor, the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, and Batman dead, there would appear to be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but then, of course, something nasty does happen… [[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|Full Review]]s}}<!-- Weeks -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Weeks_Gritterman| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks[[image:Weeks_Gritterman.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184614955X?ie=UTF8&tagrating=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=184614955X]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks]]==genre=Graphic Novels [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] There's a man who has There's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, playing a tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting. [[The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore Buddha.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/9381182299?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=9381182299]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I don't do religion, but still there was something that drew me to this comic book. For one, the whole Buddhist faith is still a little unknown to me, and this was certainly going to be educational. Yes, I knew some of the terms it ends up using, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across the man's life story. Yes, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, and who were the ones that joined him along the way? [[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda|Full Review]] <!-- Reynes -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Reynes_Water.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1941302432/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Water Memory by Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Despite the title, it seems at first the memories here are much more earthy, for Caroline has brought her young daughter to the place she herself left as a toddler. The move has been caused by a break-up, and it's just the two of them in the family unit, making a fresh start (with the help of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory of the Brittany coast. Young Marion soon discovers the clifftops are peppered with strange standing stones, with even stranger figures, initials and dates carved on to them. She also soon works out there is a way to get across a causeway at low tide to the local lighthouse, manned as it is by a gruff, surly old man. But while Caroline's beginning anew starts with a nice local job, things are slowly getting more creepy. Large sea creatures are beaching themselves, the stones' imagery is found in even stranger places - and the lighthousekeeper seems to hold darker secrets. What memory could possibly be in this storm-drenched land? [[Water Memory by Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- DILLIES -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dillies_Lyrical.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1681121069/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lyrical Comics of Dillies Set: Including Abelard, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty Blues by Renaud Dillies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] A young duck who plays horn in a jazz band is so rapt in his music he doesn't see his girlfriend leaving the bar with another man, which compels him to throw his instrument away and seek a change of scene – without realising what that might entail. A young mouse writer finds himself in the company of solitude, whether he likes it or not. And a young bird with a happy life still itches to learn what is over the horizon, and partly inspired by a crush on a girl he knows, seeks an entirely new life in America to attain the sparkly things that might be what turns her head. Yes, these graphic novels are entirely peopled by animals – sometimes unspecified species, too – but they have a very mature look at the world, and it's not a world where everything comes up roses… [[The Lyrical Comics of Dillies Set: Including Abelard, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty Blues by Renaud Dillies|Full Review]]}}
