![]() ![]() ![]() We learn, as we read about the struggle to integrate the court, about the introduction of women’s basketball, and the immersion of basketball as a sport in China, and an author’s writing process. Packed inside its pages, the history of basketball is chronicled. However, this book is about so much more than basketball. On the surface, Dragon Hoops is an autobiographical story about Yang’s journey to write a graphic novel about the high school basketball team, The O’Dowd Dragons. ![]() As a teacher and a mom of elementary school aged kids, I became giddy with eagerness to share this book with children. Because of the coronavirus outbreak, Lang canceled an. As I read it I couldn’t help but think to myself, (almost as if my brain was on loop), this book is amazing and I can think of 4,000 uses for it in the classroom. This month did not go as planned for Gene Luen Yang, whose first nonfiction graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, was released on March 17. Maybe it’s having the courage to take that next step–even at the risk of making a mistake.”ĭragon Hoops, by Gene Luen Yang is a graphic novel that should move to the top of your must-read list this year. So maybe it isn’t the fewest mistakes that wins. ![]()
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