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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]May be great for smart, nice, dyslexic girls, but examine the US curriculum especially English. My child has been reading the same book since the beginning of the year and after this they move to a Graphic Novel…. in 9th grade.  At this pace and depth they might be reading coloring books by spring. [/quote]
It’s an autobiographical graphic novel about a second-generation Vietnamese-American teenager coming to terms with being gay and learning about his own identity (identity being the overarching theme of 9th grade English). It’s not a discussion of the Marvel universe or something. And it will be followed by Sing, Unbroken, Sing and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. And the first novel (about a Latina teen’s personal struggle with identity) is taking longer because they are reading other smaller essays and stories and comparing the themes in them—i.e., depth.

You may personally not appreciate that graphic novels are becoming a mainstream genre, *especially* for telling very personal stories about identity, but lots of high schools are including them in their English departments. [/quote]

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