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Bad for You
Contributor(s): Pyle, Kevin C. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0805092897     ISBN-13: 9780805092899
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
OUR PRICE: $16.14  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels - General
Dewey: 306.022
LCCN: 2012953810
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 7.97" W x 10.56" L (0.98 lbs) 192 pages
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: School Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 171
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2013
Booklist 09/15/2013 pg. 59
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2013 pg. 175
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2014 - Recommended - Better Than Most
 
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Publisher Description:

SHOULD U.S. COMICS BE BANNED?

SATANIC HARRY POTTER BOOKS BURNT

PLAYGROUNDS POSE THREAT TO CHILDREN

TEXT-MAD YOUTH LOSING WRITING ABILITIES

CHILD SUSPENDED FOR BRANDISHING CHICKEN

SOCIAL WEBSITES HARM CHILDREN'S BRAINS

STUDENT ARRESTED FOR PASSING GAS AT SCHOOL

These are all real headlines screaming about the terrible stuff that's out there . . . stuff that's supposed to be BAD FOR YOU. But, honestly--is it?!

Bad for You asks this question and many more--and not just about the things that modern parents fear like violent video games, social media, and dirty hands. Stuff in this book goes back centuries--all the way to Plato (yeah, that one) and his worries over the new technology of his time: the written word! Kevin C. Pyle and Scott Cunningham cleverly expose the long-standing CAMPAIGN AGAINST FUN for what it really is: a bunch of anxious adults grasping at straws, ignoring scientific data, and blindly yearning for the good old days that never were. Bad for You presents the facts, figures, and a whole lot more--in eye-grabbing graphics--to debunk these myths and give kids the power to prove there's nothing wrong with having fun . . . or with being young.

Contributor Bio(s): Pyle, Kevin C.: - Kevin C. Pyle is the author/illustrator of both graphic novels and non-fiction "docu-comics" on issues of social justice. In the early 90s he co-founded and edited the willfully obscure and unwieldy comic compendium "Hodags and Hodaddies." Shortly thereafter, Kevin began contributing and co-editing World War 3 Illustrated, America's longest-running radical comics anthology. Much of the work done for WW3 Illustrated was collected in his 2001 docu-comic, Lab U.S.A.: Illuminated Documents. A non-fiction comic investigation of clandestine racist and authoritarian science, Lab U.S.A. won the Silver Medal for Sequential Art from the Society of Illustrators. Kevin has done performance and installations based on the text that have been exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Mass MOCA, and numerous gallery settings. His first graphic novel, Blindspot, was published in 2007 by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. It was included in the Best American Comics 2008, edited by Lynda Barry. Katman, also with Henry Holt, was published in 2009 and named a YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) Great Graphic Novel for 2010. His third graphic novel, Take What You Can Carry, was published in March 2012, and he is currently working on a non-fiction docu-comic with Scott Cunningham called Bad for You, which is about the history of kid-centric moral panics in America.
 
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