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Last Pick V01 Last Pick by Jason Walz

Last Pick: V02 Born to Run by Jason Walz

May 11, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

You know this story. We have read it a hundred times: Aliens take over Earth, steal people for their own needs and eventually, humans decide to fight back. A few will die on both sides, but even more become heroes.  And there is nothing wrong with that. Especially since Last Pick and Last Pick: Born to Run by Jason Walz have a few new pieces of information. This is a science fiction and realism mixed together creation. There is the classic graphic novel format and […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Action & Adventure, Alien abduction, Brothers and sisters, Dystopian, Jason Walz, People with disabilities, Special Needs

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:173 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Action & Adventure, Alien abduction, Brothers and sisters, Dystopian, Jason Walz, People with disabilities, Special Needs ·
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We need books like this…..

September 11, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is my Underrepresented category. You know of a minority, it is here. There are two dads in the doctor’s office. Jilly’s aunts are gay, and one is black (with two children from her previous marriage that she “called the biggest mistake of her life”). Gino speaks about the injustices surrounding the shootings of young black people. There is a black and deaf child. Jilly’s baby sister is deaf. The author, Alex Gino is non-gender conforming. You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!  is Gino’s sophomore […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: African-American, Alex Gino, ASL, cbr10bingo, deaf, friendship, gender, hearing, hearing impaired, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, Special Needs, underrepresented

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:350 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: African-American, Alex Gino, ASL, cbr10bingo, deaf, friendship, gender, hearing, hearing impaired, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, Special Needs, underrepresented ·
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