This year, though, things quickly go from bad to worse… Danny’s 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. He wants to be hailed as a god…Ĭhin-Kee is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, and he’s ruining his cousin Danny’s life. But the Monkey King doesn’t want to be a monkey. Adored by his subjects, master of the arts of kung-fu, he is the most powerful monkey on earth. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl…īorn to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends.
When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he’s the only Chinese American student at his school. These books are award winners for a reason! That should be one of my New Year’s Resolutions.īut I have read the award winning works of Gene Luen Yang and maintain that everyone should. Even The Tween loves them, personally being a huge fan of GNs by Raina Telgemeier and a few other series. The truth is, I personally am not a huge reader of graphic novels, though I am a huge advocate for them because my tweens and teens love them. Here we are in the homestretch – I mean, we’re at the letter Y – and not one single graphic novel has appeared on our list, even though statistical evidence suggests that graphic novels are some of the top circulating items in my library system (how about yours?).
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