We Won't Budge blood brothers

We Won't Budge blood brothersIn this deeply personal and unflinchingly honest exploration of what it means to be African, Manthia Diawara recounts the bittersweet experience of an expatriate who no longer lives life as an "African" yet is the object of others' fantasies and fears about people of the dark continent. Comparing his fortunes in America with those of his cousins in Paris, Diawara assesses the way tradition and community give meaning to their lives, despite the

counter-intuitive

even if she has to give up the one thing that makes her happy

the Icon Children discover that their explosive emotions-which they've always thought to be their greatest weaknesses-may actually be their greatest strengths

We owe our good health to a humble parasite — a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation

while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son

That's just twin telepathy

Char hasn't forgotten how he once tossed her aside

or not saying good-bye

Pushed to the brink of survival

After he learned the world's best sales techniques

Although many will remember the stirring adventures of the "Swamp Fox" from the Walt Disney television series of the late 1950s and the fictionalized Marion character played by Mel Gibson in the 2000 film The Patriot

Follow Lilla as she stumbles her way through each of them in Eleanor Crewes's uniquely illustrated debut middle-grade graphic novel