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Prime baby / Gene Luen Yang ; colors by Derek Kirk Kim.

Yang, Gene Luen. (Author). Kim, Derek Kirk (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781596436121
  • ISBN: 1596436123 : PAP
  • Physical Description: 56 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 16 x 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : First Second, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in the New York Times Magazine"--Colophon.
Summary, etc.:
Thaddeus Fong has a hard time convincing others that his baby sister, Maddie, is an interdimensional gateway for peace-loving aliens, and he is extremely disappointed to discover that there is no evil alien invasion to thwart.
Subject: Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Babies > Fiction.
Sibling rivalry > Fiction.
Extraterrestrial beings > Fiction.
Human-alien encounters > Fiction.
Science fiction.
Humorous stories.
Graphic novels.
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Babies > Juvenile fiction.
sibling rivalry > Juvenile fiction.
Extraterrestrial beings > Juvenile fiction.
Human-alien encounters > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Graphic novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

Holds

0 current holds with 1 total copy.

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Main jGraphic Novel Yang (Text) 31307019228164 Children's Graphic Novel Available -

Syndetic Solutions - Author Notes for ISBN Number 9781596436121
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by Yang, Gene Luen (Author, Illustrator)
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Author Notes

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Gene Luen Yang was born on August 9, 1973 in California. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in computer science and minored in creative writing. After graduating in 1995, he worked as a computer engineer for two years. He decided that he was meant to teach and left his job as an engineer to teach computer science at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, California. He is a writer of graphic novels and comics. His first published comic, Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, was published in 1997 and won the Xeric Grant, a self-publishing grant for comic book creators. His other works include Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order and Avatar: The Last Airbender. He won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2006 for American Born Chinese and the Eisner Award for best short story in 2009 for Eternal Smile. (Bowker Author Biography)


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