Tuesday, January 28, 2025

The Weirn Books, Volume 2: The Ghost and the Stolen Dragon

 


Stars: 3

My Thoughts:

I saw the Weirn Books on my NetGalley feed and thought I was reading part of the Nightschool Weirn series which I enjoyed. The Nightschool series by Chmakova is for an older manga audience. This is not the same series. This one is for upper elementary and lower middle students. The art is still clean and distinctive. I kept looking for vampires but there are none. This one is less likely to be banned. The story is cute, but I did not read volume 1, so I probably missed some background on the other characters (which is why I kept looking for the vampires).  

If you give your students time to read in middle school, this is a good series to have because it has the manga stylings, without the sexualized female bodies or inappropriate situations of other manga that considers YA like adult without the porn. 


From the Publishers:

After her terrible adventures in the Silent Woods, Na’ya’s world seems to have returned to normal…that is, except for the nightmares that keep haunting her. What she needs is the power to protect everyone in case the evil scientist returns, and she has the perfect solution―she’ll turn into a dragon, once and for all! With help from Ailis and Jasper, everything seems to be going according to plan. But what’s that dark shadow slithering around the spell-casting range…?


Publication Information:

Author, Illustrator: Svetlana Chmakova
Publisher: JY (October 15, 2024)
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1975311278
Grade level: 3-7



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