Give This a Try if You Like… Kim Reaper by Sarah Graley, Bloom by Kevin Panetta, Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle WeirįDL Reads is a series of weekly book reviews from Fondulac District Library. Three Words That Describe This Book: Sweet, Spooky, Soothing I wish the book was just a little longer so the story would flow more smoothly, but overall, it’s a really nice read. The only thing I didn’t like was that the transition from the first half of the book to the second half is a little sudden and awkward. Taproot Keezy Young Illustrator Keezy Young Publisher Lion Forge Publication Year 2017 ISBN 9781941302460 Pages 128 pages Genre fantasy Format graphic novel Item Type Fiction Annotation Blue is having a hard time moving on. The characters are very sweet to each other, and the color palette is pretty. Even though it deals with death and the underworld, it’s not a scary or depressing story. That’s not going to sound enticing to some people, but I really liked it. It doesn’t really do anything new plot-wise it’s basically a cliché love story with ghosts.

My Review: This is the kind of book you should read when you just want something short with a happy ending. When Blue and the other ghosts start disappearing into a strange, decaying forest, the boys’ relationship becomes at risk of falling apart forever. Hamal just wants to live a peaceful life growing plants, but his ability to speak with the dead affects everyone and everything around him more than he realizes.

What is This Book About?: Blue is one of many ghosts who roams around invisible to the world, but one day he meets Hamal, a living boy, who can see and hear him. Reviewer: Cindy, Youth Services Assistant Taproot: A Story About a Gardener and a Ghost by Keezy Young

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Search Our Books, Movies, Music, & More Description : Blue has been living as a ghost for a year when he meets Hamal, a beautiful and sweet gardener who has the ability to see and communicate with.

Their work is character-focused, and they use action, romance, and mystery to explore LGBTQIA characters and themes, since those are the stories they always looked for growing up, but could rarely find. Their stories are cute, eerie, and often dark, but almost always hopeful at their core. Today, Keezy writes, draws, and designs their own young adult comics.

Although their art is self-taught, they credit Digimon, Hiromu Arakawa, Trina Schart Hyman, Arthur Rackham, and Studio Ghibli as important influences.

Any opportunity to con their teachers into letting them illustrate a book report instead of writing one was taken. They grew up drawing on their walls, stealing a few extra chapters by nightlight after bedtime, making graveyards for lost animals in the forest with their brother and sister, and adding monsters and flowers to the margins of every homework assignment. Keezy Young is a queer comic artist and illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, currently in Seattle, WA.

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