February 6, 2019
Congratulations to Melanie Gillman ′13 yet again! The first volume of As the Crow Flies (Iron Circus, 2017) appears on the 2019 Amelia Bloomer list for Young Adult Fiction. The Amelia Bloomer list is an ALA-curated list of recommended feminist lit for young readers.
The comic, originally published online where it is still updating, is about Charlie Lamonte, a thirteen-year-old, queer, black girl spending a week of summer vacation at an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp where she learns to question the rhetoric. The web comic is ongoing, so you can catch up any time. Previously, their book won the Stonewall Award from ALA and had appeared in the top ten YA graphic novels at ALA. This story is turning into a mega award winner!
Page 2 of As the Crow Flies
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