Gene Luen Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. In 2006, his graphic novel, American Born Chinese - a memoir about growing up as an Asian American - became the first graphic novel to win the American Library Association's Printz Award. He is the author of the Secret Coders series and has written for the hit comics Avatar: The Last Airbender and Superman. Watch the interview to learn more about him and read a short biography about his life. Includes an interview transcript and a selected list of his books.

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children's literature

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asian american author, gene yang, reading rockets, graphic novel author, elementary authors v - z, graphic novel

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional