FRIENDSHIP AND FRESH AIR: MIDDLE GRADE GRAPHIC NOVELS

In JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS’ Gamerville, Max Lightning is a lone wolf video game champion who wants to take home the trophy at a high-stakes video game tournament, but a forced retreat at Camp Refresh with no devices, mandatory teamwork, and some fresh air might make him rethink his virtual victories. In School Trip by JERRY CRAFT, Jordan and his friends from Riverdale Academy Day School head to Paris, only to find their trusted faculty guides replaced at the last minute, which makes finding their way around a foreign city as tricky as navigating the same friendships, fears, and differences that they struggle with at home. Moderated by DAVID HILDENBRAND, Miami-Dade Public Library System librarian. Grades 4-8