Attack on Titan 1 by Hajime Isayama

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Isayama, Hajime. Attack on Titan 1. New York: Kodansha Comics, 2012. Print. ISBN-13: 9781612620244. Paperback. Cost: $10.99.

Awards:
-2011 Kodansha Manga Award (Shonen Category)
-Nominated for the 2012 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize

Annotation:
For over one hundred years the walls have kept the Titans out, but humanity stays in. Now, the walls have been breached and the future of the human race is once again at risk.

Booktalk:
When hope seems useless, how do you keep on fighting for life? All their lives, Eren, Armin, and Mikasa have lived behind the three walls protecting the human territory from the the threat of the Titans; giants who eat humans and have only one known weakness, exploitable using unique weaponry. Since losing his mother in the last Titan attack within the walls, Eren has been determined to join the Survey Corps that ventures beyond the walls and experience the most combat against Titans. Eren has persuaded the clever Armin and stoic Mikasa to join his dream of freeing humanity from the Titans. But after finishing their military training, a massive Titan attacks and tests the wills of these trainees. Can Eren survive to realize his dream? Or is this finally humanity's last stand?

Teen Quote:
Jose V, age 15: “I love comics because of the stories; if it’s a good story I’ll read it. An interesting plot, and good art. That’s why I read comics and manga.”