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| Genre/forme : | Graphic novels Fiction |
|---|---|
| Type d’ouvrage : | École primaire et secondaire, Fiction |
| Format : | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Gene Luen Yang; Lark Pien |
| ISBN : | 9781596432086 159643208X 9781596431522 1596431520 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 63295041 |
| Prix : | Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2007. |
| Description : | 233 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contenu : | Story 1: "All Jin Wing wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at the school. Jocki and his bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl." Story 2: "Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables. Adored by his subjects, master of the arts of kung-fu, he is the most powerful monkey on Earth. But the Monkey King doesn't want to be a monkey. He wants to be hailed as a god ..." Story 3: "Chin-Kee is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, and he's ruining his cousin Danny's life. Danny's a basketball player, a popular kid at school, but every year Chin-Kee comes to visit, and every year Danny has to transfer to a new school to escape the shame. This year, though, things quickly go from bad to worse" -- Publisher's description. |
| Responsabilité : | Gene Luen Yang ; color by Lark Pien. |
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Critiques des utilisateurs de WorldCat (2)
More powerful than expected
Not being a reader of graphic novels, I did not expect much from American born Chinese. Instead, I found myself looking at how a person of another culture twists themselves into being something else in order to fit in. Some characters even wanted to avoid being whom they discovered themselves to be....
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Not being a reader of graphic novels, I did not expect much from American born Chinese. Instead, I found myself looking at how a person of another culture twists themselves into being something else in order to fit in. Some characters even wanted to avoid being whom they discovered themselves to be. This is a story of discovering and accepting ourselves. Open this book with the expectation of being challenged to open your mind.
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Good GN to start with
I did it! I finally read an entire graphic novel! And I'm still alive to tell about it. :)
My friend's 12-year-old daughter recommended it to me, so I figured it had to be pretty good. She knows the whole manga thing confuses me, so she picked a GN that was more...
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I did it! I finally read an entire graphic novel! And I'm still alive to tell about it. :)
My friend's 12-year-old daughter recommended it to me, so I figured it had to be pretty good. She knows the whole manga thing confuses me, so she picked a GN that was more like a comic strip with varying sizes of panels--easy enough for me to follow.
This book has three storylines that trade off, and I couldn't figure out whether there was supposed to be one unifying story until almost the very end, but it wasn't hard to track each thread, even when I couldn't see how they would connect. 1) A tale of the Chinese Monkey King, 2) a tale of a lone Chinese American boy making friends with a Chinese boy, and 2) a tale of an American teenager who is embarrassed by his uber-stereotypical Chinese cousin coming to visit. I enjoyed the humor of each, and I was surprised to see a slight religious theme subtly interwoven into the whole--a blend of Eastern and Western.
I also appreciated how fast it was to read. Only 1 1/2 lunch hours required!
Overall, I'd say it's a great GN for teenagers. There are some raging teenage hormones in the story, so I probably wouldn't recommend it to all elementary school kids. And I think I'd actually give it 3 1/2 stars. Were I a big GN fan in general, it would probably get 4 stars. :)
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