The shadow hero

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Gene Luen Yang: The shadow hero (2014, Roaring Brook Press)

158 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2014 by Roaring Brook Press.

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In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity ... The Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero.

In the Chinese neighborhood of San Incendio, Hank's mother wants him to become a superhero. Hank is not interested, until gangsters threaten his father's grocery. The plot contains sexual references, violence, and negative stereotypes.

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Subjects

  • Families
  • Asian Americans
  • Magic
  • Superheroes
  • Fiction