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My advice:
Read the reviews online and in print - VOYA, my favorite professional
magazine covers this format really well .

Check out the graphics at a real store.

Rena Deutsch, Librarian
Bayard Rustin HS for the Humanities
351 W. 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
renadeutsch@att.net
library site: www.hhslibrary.org



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From: "Rena Deutsch" <renadeutsch@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] SEC: "manga-style" books


> We have a number of these books.  One that is extremely popular now --
> with
> the girls, especially -- is the MARS series by Fuyumi Soryo.  I bought the
> first volume of Love, Hina and one of the girls who reads these books said
> They were sort of rated R (her words) but she likes this series and her
> friends have read them, too. We looked at that one, and although there is
> a
> little nudity, it is very subtle e.g., if there's a female body, there's
> an
> outline of the breast but no nipple; towels are used with discretion.
>
> I would definitely buy these books for your students, but would make two
> suggestions:
> 1- Check out some of the great review sites for these books, which will
> give
> you an indication of the level (good for all ages, teen, adult, etc) in
> addition to a review. I can't recommend the site " No Flying, No Tights"
> enough.  I have a link on my library website to this site and other sites
> related to graphic novels:
> http://www.hhslibrary.org/graphicnovels.html
>
> 2.  Check out these books at your nearest Borders or Barnes & Noble, or,
> better yet, at your local comic books store.  Borders usually has a large
> collection of these books near the sci-fi section, and Barnes and Nobles
> has
> a big section in the teen books section (in the series section).  There is
> a
> Store Locator for your nearest comic book stores on the Diamond Comics
> website.http://csls.diamondcomics.com/
>
> Flipping through the books will give you important information as to the
> level of nudity, etc. and then you can make an informed decision about
> individual titles.
>
> Rena Deutsch, Librarian
> Bayard Rustin HS for the Humanities
> 351 W. 18th Street
> New York, NY 10011
> renadeutsch@att.net
> library site: www.hhslibrary.org
>
>
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