Chasing Normal

Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood!Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and

Grace and friends return for a new adventure in this third installment of the bestselling City of Dragons series!Daijiang's continued pursuit of Grace has made it clear that she and Nate are crucial to his plan. But as her Hunxue powers grow stronger, Grace can't help but feel it's unfair she might be missing out on a normal school life. Other kids get to relax, watch movies with friends, and go on dates, while Grace is risking her life to save world. Something has felt off about her connection with Nate lately, and she keeps dreaming of her father and his ominous insistence that she must wake the dragon kings.When a trip to rendezvous with an old ally goes awry, Grace and her friends find themselves stranded in Tokyo with only one day to wake the Southern Dragon King. But with the race against the clock exacerbating tensions on the team, can Grace get back in sync with Nate and her friends before it's too late?

Hey, Kiddo (圖文書) 獲2018年美國國家圖書獎青年文學類獎項。是作者Jarrett Krosoczka自身的故事，因為母親吸毒成癮進出勒戒所、父親失蹤甚至連名字他都不知道，還好還有祖父母扶養他長大。在幼兒園，Jarrett Krosoczka 的老師讓他畫出他的家人，有媽媽和爸爸。但他的家庭比這複雜得多。他和祖父母住在一起，兩個非常吵鬧、非常有愛心、非常固執的人。他試圖讓他童年的非正常生活盡可能正常，發現透過繪畫來表達自己，即使他對一切所知不多。直到十幾歲的時候，他才能開始拼湊家庭的種種。作者透過圖像記述了自己的不一樣的成長過程，他找到讓自己克服難題的方法，希望也能對成長中的青少年帶來啟發。In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's g