Raina Telgemeier Puns

My daughter loves being read to. I’ve read her most of Roald Dahl, The Hobbit, Narnia, the first 4 Harry Potters… etc. She’s obsessed with The Witches; I’ve read it to her a couple times and she’s listened to the audiobook 10+ times. I got her the graphic novel for Christmas and she loves it. I’m not expecting her to love any other gn as much since this is obviously familiar/beloved content for her to begin with but… any graphic novels you’d recommend she check out? What graphic novels do your 6yo kids like?

This takes place in the 2018-2019 school year.

Like all school districts, we are plagued with angry entitled parents. And these people manage to get clout - if there's anything that offends them? There's complaining brought up to the school administration about what we're apparently "Teaching".

We have had multiple books pulled from our library due to complaints from angry entitled parents.

They got one book in question banned - this book is called "Drama" by Raina Telgemeier. The book itself is harmless in my opinion, but not to these entitled parents - because there's LGBT characters in it! So enough Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, catholics, protestants, and other parents complained to administration to get the book removed from our district's libraries.

Now time for Banned Books week 2018. Students in our English classes are expected to read a "Banned book" and do a report from it. Administration however missed one particular entry:

Drama

Be it by accident or on purpose. However, our "Banned book" display on the library did not include Drama because of these entitled parents who didn't want their children reading "Filth" and something that promoted "Degeneracy".

Enter a student I will call Rachel. She brought her own copy, and snuck it onto the display. Just about all of us looked away because she was right. However, one kid took a picture of it and told their entitled parents that our "Banned books" display had a comic on it - and a comic in which a gay character exists. Oh! Hold me!

Administration tells our principal that he has to find and punish this offending student in order to rabid entitled parents. (Or because he's sympathetic to them. we do have administrators like that.) But they don't tell him WHAT he has to do.

So Rachel's "Punishment" is just a smokescreen in which she is apparently punished, and is given a tootsie pop because she stood up for what she believed in.

The revenge and compliance continues however... you know how that list of "banned books" our kids had to read? Well, Rachel and other students decide to do book reports on "Drama". I will admit it was a relief to not have to sit through fifteen or so book reports from kids who watched a Harry Potter movie and discussed how it was "banned" for a change.

We got complaints from these angry parents angry that other children had the gall to read a banned book during "Banned Book Week", then do a book report on that banned book that was literally on the list

I'm going to the library tomorrow and have to pick up a few books for my 11 year old son. He doesn't hate reading, he has a few authors that he likes but reading isn't on his list of hobbies. I need to find a chapter book that he can read for 20 minutes/day as requested by his teacher.

He likes;

The Dogman series by Dave Pilkie

Smile,Guts,Drama by Raina Telgemeier

Goosebumps

He tolerates Harry Potter

Any help would be appreciated Thank you!

Edit: Thank you all so so much for all your suggestions and taking the time to reply. You've all been such a big help.You're all amazing ❤❤❤❤❤

TL;DR Would greatly appreciate graphic novel recommendations that have a core message, easy language and engaging story. Bonus if it could tie in to our culture unit next term.

Hello,

I teach US equivalent of Grade 5 English Language Learners. Our school year is different than the US, so when COVID got really bad here, we were just starting the 2021-2022 school year. We are know 3/4 of the way done the school year and with all the craziness normal material has been simplified out of need.

Well I took this opportunity to try to encourage reading since we had this gap in material. We did one novel, a first for many of these kids, and then we did a graphic novel since the next term was far shorter. I would like to continue next term with another graphic novel but I'm not that well versed and our English bookstores are limited so it's hard to window shop.

So basically our next term is about culture so if we could find a graphic novel that could tie in would be great. I was looking at Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier as an option. However, it's not required to tie in, though I would prefer some kind of lesson in the book. Our last one was a cute story about anxiety and overcoming self doubt. Also the simpler the language the better. All sections of Grade 5 must do the same book and assignments so I can't differentiate and only 30 out of 105 students can read at a Grade 5 level.

Sorry if this sounds lazy, but after looking at pages of recommendations without being able to look at the books (again limited English books where I am) it would be great to hear some first person experiences.

My daughter is 9 and she recently came out. She’s a huge fan of graphic novels (think Raina Telgemeier, CeCe Bell, etc.). Not to sound pompous, but she reads at an 8th grade level according to her teacher. I know these books are about high school students so I was wondering if they’re age appropriate. The “raciest” thing we’ve read so far is Are You There God, It’s me Margaret. Has anyone read them?

Hey everyone! My little sister wants graphic novels for Christmas, and since she’s already read everything by Raina Telgemeier I have no idea what to get her. She says she liked the Dog Man series, as well as Raina Telgemeier’s Sisters, Smile, and The Babysitters Club series. She loves to read, and would be fine with any genre. Any suggestions??