Gene Luen Yang is an author best known for his work on graphic novels, often aimed at the middle grade audience. He is the author of the 2006 book, American Born Chinese, which was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz Award.
In addition to writing his own graphic novels, Luen Yang is also the writer of Dark Horse Comics’ Avatar: The Last Airbender series and DC Comics’ Superman. He also writes a graphic novel series that teaches kids the basics of computer programming. Gene serves as the Library of Congress’ fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
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Luen Yang is the author of Dragon Hoops. The book follows Gene who doesn’t know much about sports. He understands stories and the hero’s journey and comic books, but he doesn’t quite get sports. Basketball didn’t work out for him, but now that he is teaching at a high school – it’s all anyone talks about. The varsity team is having a phenomenal season and as Gene gets to know them, he finds that the story of the team is just as exciting as anything he’s seen on a comic book page. He becomes embroiled in the story of this team and finds that the season is not only going to change the team’s lives, but his life as well.
American Born Chinese was a breakout novel for Luen Yang. The book is about Jin Wang who starts a new school where he is the only Chinese-American student. He does his best to be an All-American boy though which gets harder when a Taiwanese boy comes to the school. He doesn’t want to be associated him as he wants to focus on being American. When he obnoxious cousin comes to visit and ruins Danny’s reputation, he’ll be forced to transfer somewhere that can start all over again.
