Saturday, December 13, 2014

Mangaman by Barry Lyga and Colleen Doran

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Lyga, Barry and Colleen Doran. Mangaman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011. Print. ISBN-13: 9780547423159. Hardcover. Cost: $19.99.

Awards:
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Annotation:
High school is hard enough without having to find your way back home to your own dimension at the same time.

Booktalk:
Living in a comic book sounds like a dream come true, right? Ryoko never knew he had it it so good.

Ryoko is used to spending his days in Japan fighting off random monster attacks with giant robots, but everything changes when he falls into a dimensional rip and finds himself in America being studied by the government. Enrolling in high school while the government tries to get him back home, Ryoko must deal with controlling his "manga" qualities in this world, which seem to have come with him. When he starts falling for the most popular girl in school, who thinks he is most exciting thing she has ever seen, Ryoko must make a choice. Does he really want to go home, or stay and be known as Mangaman for the rest of his life?



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