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Yang, Gene Luen

The Shadow Hero

170 pp. | Roaring Brook/First Second | July, 2014 | Paper ISBN 978-1-59643-697-8 $17.99
(2) YA Illustrated by Sonny Liew. Lettering by Janice Chiang. Yang and Liew have crafted an origin story for the Green Turtle, a little-known World War II–era comic superhero who was "perhaps...the first Asian American superhero." Teenaged Hank wants a quiet life, but his mother wants her son to be a superhero. Yang and Liew keep the superhero-in-training trope fresh with abundant humor, strong characters, and cracking good action.
Reviewer: Sam Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2014

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