IRL: Resources for Teaching YA Nonfiction

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial by Paula Yoo Reviewed by: Katarina Shieh, Aaron Stone, Thao Tran, Han White, & Sandra Yang (Sources are linked within images) Book Review: From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry by Paula Yoo tells the story of Vincent Chin, a 27 year old Japanese American who was murdered a week before his wedding. She tells the story of the trials that were held in an attempt to bring justice to not only Vincent but his family as well. The photos she included throughout the book aided in our understanding of the story and helped us form a stronger image in our minds as we read. Yoo also went into great detail on account of every person’s life, even the lives of the men who were standing trial for the murder. Every person, from the doctors who tried to save the young man to the judge who oversaw the trials, were allowed to have their side of the story be told. Because of this, not only throughout the trial but throughout the bo

Biography of author: ND Stevenson (formerly Noelle Stevenson) is an American comic book author/illustrator living in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Molly. Stevenson was born in South Carolina in 1991, though attended college at Maryland Institute College of Art, and graduated in 2013. During a break from college, he worked in California with BOOM! Studios, which inspired him to continue with comic writing and publishing.  While still in college, he began work on a character named ‘Nimona’ and a webcomic that told Nimona’s story and used her name as a title. The webcomic gained attention from HarperCollins and they signed with Stevenson to publish Nimona as a graphic novel. As a webcomic, Nimona won State Magazine’s Cartoon Studio Prize for Best Web Comic of the Year in 2012 and, as a graphic novel, it won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album in 2016. Stevenson continued his work in comics with the series, Lumberjanes , published through BOOM! Studios and work on various Marv