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Prelude to a Bruise is a daring debut

Miguel Vila lays his characters bare

Middle-grade readers intrigued by the cult classic RPG and fans fond of popular campaigns like Adventure Zone and Critical Role will enjoy the message of this series opener: “Monsters are easier to fight when you’ve got people by your side

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Names and Faces Lars Jansson Prelude to a Bruise isBy Leise Hook. Published by Holt. Hardcover, 256 pages, colour, 2026. A graphic memoir in essays examining the in betweenness of being mixed race and the cultural confrontations inherent to forging ones identity Who are you? What are you? And how does it feel to be you? Leise Hook was asked these intrusive questions so many times growing up that they haunted her like ghosts. Born to a Chinese mother and white American father, and growing up in