Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell

Step-siblings Ruth and Perry share an uncommon bond. Ruth is plagued by insects only she can see and hear. Their restless shell-bodies with their incessant beating wings fill up the fluorescent light casings above her head in class, smack furiously at her nighttime bedroom window, and swarm in clouds around her head and on her [...]

The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg

Castellucci, Cecil and Jim Rugg, The Plain Janes, 2007. (graphic) Jane’s parents freaked after a terrorist attack and moved from Metro City to the suburbs, and so did Jane.  But what’s in the suburbs for Jane?  She is not a suburban girl.  At her new school, the popular girls invite her over . . . [...]

Friday Is “Buy Indie Day”

Tomorrow, Friday, May 1st, 2009, is Buy Indie Day across America.  Celebrate and support your local, independent bookstore by purchasing a paperback book, a hardcover, an audiobook – whatever. Buy Indie Day is a project of IndieBound, “a community-oriented movement…that brings together booksellers, readers, indie retailers, local business alliances, and anyone else with a passionate belief that healthy [...]

French Milk by Lucy Knisley

Lucy is graduating from college soon and wonders aloud what it will be like in this journal.  The title comes from her love of French milk which is sold in glass bottles and is full-fat not skim.  The drawings in the story are vivid accounts of her time in Paris during January with her mother. [...]