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Dragon Hoops
Gene Luen Yang

Dragon Hoops

First Second (Mar 17, 2020)
9781626720794
| Hardcover
448 pages | 165 x 226 mm | USA | English
$ 24.99 | Value: $ 24.99
Dewey 796.323/6209794
LC Classification GV885.73.O25 .Y36 2020

Genre

  • Graphic Novel

Subject

  • State of California, 1850-

Plot

Gene understands stories―comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins.

But Gene doesn’t get sports. As a kid, his friends called him “Stick” and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men’s varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that’s been decades in the making. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championships.

Once Gene gets to know these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he’s seen on a comic book page. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. What he doesn’t know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons’s lives, but his own life as well.