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Fall Indie Books
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Home Time: Under the River, Book One
Campbell Whyte (Aug., $24.99, hardcover)
From the Australian comics creator comes this tale of twins Lily and David, who don’t agree on
much, except that the last summer before high school is the perfect time for relaxing. But their
plans are destroyed when they and their friends fall into a river and wake up in a village of
fantastic creatures. Shaun Tan calls this graphic novel “beautifully realized, funny, smart, weird
and surprisingly epic in scope. Home Time is also just plain brilliant.” Ages 13–up.
“I miss you, but I don’t wish you
were here.”
-Sabrina Benaim, Depression & Other Magic Tricks
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I Am Alphonso Jones
Tony Medina, illus. by Stacey Robinson
and John Jennings (Oct., $18.95, trade
paper)
Author and illustrator appearances, social
media advertising, teaching guide and discussion questions available, 15,000-copy
announced first printing
In this graphic novel about police brutality, an off-duty police officer mistakenly thinks a clothes hanger is a gun
and shoots Alfonso. The teen wakes up
in the afterlife on a ghost train guided
by other victims of police shootings.
“Medina, Robinson, and Jennings do
for us what the ghosts do for Alfonso
in their story,” says Gene Luen Yang,
National Ambassador for Young
People’s Literature. “They help us to
see. They help us to remember. They
help us to understand. A must-read.”
Ages 12–up.
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