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Medina, Tony

I Am Alfonso Jones

166 pp. | Lee/Tu | October, 2017 | Paper ISBN 978-1-62014-263-9 $18.95
(2) YA Illustrated by Stacey Robinson & John Jennings. In the afterlife, African American fifteen-year-old Alfonso meets "Ancestors" who, like him, were killed by white police officers. Medina's emotional narrative starts tightly, with the illustrators' black-and-white visuals zoomed in closely on a single spiraling bullet; the story expands, exploring Alfonso's life and bringing his death and those that survive him steadily into view. This emotional graphic novel avoids contrived solutions and false senses of closure.
Reviewer: Anastasia M. Collins | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2018

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