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. A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. As a teacher and a mom of elementary school aged kids, I became giddy with eagerness to share this book with children. BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: BUZZFEED, GOODREADS, BOOKRIOT A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands o. 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. Read 'When Women Were Dragons A Novel' by Kelly Barnhill available from Rakuten Kobo. 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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