![]() ![]() "This is a story about a girl whose family immigrated from China to America and found herself in Brooklyn, not speaking any English, in the 1950s. The story was very different and it was much more mature and deep and I just fell in love with the language with that book." In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord I liked the movie, but when I read the book I felt like it was a totally different experience. We had just seen the film that is based on that book, The Secret of Nim. "It's one of the first books that I remember reading with my mom. In Ghosts, Telgemeier is as funny, compassionate and inventive as ever, creating a protagonist whose dread of starting over in a new town and new school is comforting in its familiarity.īelow, Telgemeier shares 11 books that have shaped her life - from the Canadian cartoonist she credits with teaching her everything about life to the Japanese wartime comic that fundamentally changed her life. Raina Telgemeier is a regular on bestseller lists for middle grade graphic novels like Drama, Smile and Sisters. ![]()
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