Xu, Ru Newsprints
208 pgs. GRAPHIC NOVEL. Scholastic, 2017. $24.99
Content: Language: G (0 swears); Mature Content: G Violence: PG
Blue is a newsboy with a secret, Blue is really a girl. She is
passionate about the news and loves working with her adopted family of
newsboys. Her country is at war, so there is lots of news to report. She meets a
mysterious inventor and starts helping him solve a mystery. Blue has a best
friend that is a bird named Goldie, she when she meets an even more mysterious
boy who has a way with crows, it’s a natural friendship. But both of them aren’t
who they appear to be and Blue just wants to be accepted for herself. She quickly
finds herself caught up in the biggest new story of the year.
This was a fun sort of steampunk graphic novel that had heart.
This was an uncorrected edition, so only a few pages were color but those were
SO lovely. The rest was in black and white and some of the action was hard to
read, though in the final version, I assume it will be full color. I found
myself feeling like I was reading an anime movie. The plot may be challenging
for younger readers, especially since it has a lot to do with newspapers and in
a survey of two 3rd grade classes, they didn’t know what those were,
but upper elementary and middle school will enjoy this book.
EL, MS –ADVISABLE Reviewer: Stephanie Elementary School Librarian &
Author.
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