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The shadow hero / story by Gene Luen Yang ; art by Sonny Liew ; lettering by Janice Chiang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : First Second Books, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 158 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1596436972
  • 9781596436978
Genre/Form: Summary: In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity ; The Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that creates an origin story for the Green Turtle.
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In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity ; The Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that creates an origin story for the Green Turtle.

GN420L Lexile

Decoding demand: 91 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 64 (high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile

Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 3.2 1 166176.

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