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Gene Luen Yang, a 2013 #NBAwards YPL Finalist for his phenomenal graphic novel Boxers & Saints has just released the first of six monthly e-installments of his latest book The Shadow Hero. Created with Sonny Liew, The Shadow Hero chronicles the adventures of the Green Turtle, a comic-book character first created by Blazing Comics in the 1940s. Indeed, the Green Turtle was the first Asian-American super hero to appear in American comic books.

Yang’s publisher FirstSecond has published lots of fun information about the history of the Green Turtle and Yang’s creative reimagining of the super hero’s life story and exploits.

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National Book Chats With Gene Luen Yang, Longlisted for the 2013 YPL National Book Award

  • National Book Foundation: What is your favorite line or passage from Boxers & Saints?
  • Gene Luen Yang: I wrote a scene where my two main characters meet one another as young children. It appears in both books. Four-Girl, the protagonist of Saints, makes a face at Little Bao, the protagonist of Boxers. Little Bao becomes infatuated with her.
  • National Book Foundation: Why?
  • Gene Luen Yang: That's happened to me. I've become infatuated with girls who make faces at me.
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richincolor: “Throwback Thursday - Highlighting diverse young adult titles from past years American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he’s the only...
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American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he’s the only Chinese American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl…

Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables. Adored by his subjects, master of the arts of kung-fu, he is the most powerful monkey on earth. But the Monkey King doesn’t want to be a monkey. He wants to be hailed as a god…

Chin-Kee is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, and he’s ruining his cousin Danny’s life. Danny’s a popular kid at school, but every year Chin-Kee comes to visit, and every year Danny has to transfer to a new school to escape the shame. This year, though, things quickly go from bad to worse…

These three apparently unrelated tales come together with an unexpected twist, in a modern fable that is hilarious, poignant and action-packed. American Born Chinese is an amazing rise, all the way up to the astonishing climax–and confirms what a growing number of readers already know: Gene Yang is a major talent.

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Boxers & Saints Visits the Bronx

To our great delight, Gene Luen Yang, 2013 National Book Award Finalist for his graphic novel Boxers & Saints, took time out from his really busy trip to New York for the National Book Awards Ceremony to meet our BookUpNYC students at Kingsbridge Heights Community Center in the Bronx.

Thank you Gene! Come visit us again soon.

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Xin Nian Kuai Le! Happy Lunar New Year! Explore China’s history and people with these four National Book Award Honorees! Clockwise from top right: The Age of Ambition, by Evan Osnos, 2014 National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction China Men, by Maxine...

Xin Nian Kuai Le! Happy Lunar New Year!

Explore China’s history and people with these four National Book Award Honorees! Clockwise from top right:

The Age of Ambition, by Evan Osnos, 2014 National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction

China Men, by Maxine Hong Kingston, Winner of the 1981 National Book Award for Nonfiction

American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang, 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature

Waiting, by Ha Jin, Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction.

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We in the book community are in the middle of a sustained conversation about diversity. We talk about our need for diverse books with diverse characters written by diverse writers. I wholeheartedly agree.

But I have noticed an undercurrent of fear in many of our discussions. We’re afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we’re afraid of getting it wrong. We’re afraid of what the Internet might say.

This fear can be a good thing if it drives us to do our homework, to be meticulous in our cultural research. But this fear crosses the line when we become so intimidated that we quietly make choices against stepping out of our own identities.

After all, our job as writers is to step out of ourselves, and to encourage our readers to do the same.

Gene Luen Yang, two-time Finalist for the National Book Award, nails it at the Library of Congress National Book Festival.
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I think for all my comics, I just try to tell a story that is compelling enough to get the reader from beginning to end. I don’t know if I think that much about the age demographics while I’m doing it—the young-adult category was determined by my publisher. At the same time, I feel like my work really fits there: a lot of the themes that I like to deal with are very appropriate for young adults.
Interview with Gene Yang about ‘Boxer & Saints’ : The New Yorker
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This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20. 

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