Blood City Rollers
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Published on Sep 24, 2024 | 1 Hours 36 Minutes
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Published on Apr 9, 2024 | 192 Pages
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Grades 3–7
Ages 8–12
Skates on. Fangs out. Let’s roll. This perfectly paranormal graphic novel about a 13-year-old ice skater who embraces the dark side and finds her light when she joins a vampire roller derby team is to die for.
Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and glory—that is, until she totally wipes out at her biggest competition, and is kinda-sorta-kidnapped by undead kids on roller skates. Sucked into the high stakes world of Paranormal Roller Derby, she finds herself "recruited" by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their team—just in time to save the league from losing it all.
Between learning to play derby well enough to kick butt on the track, crushing hard on the dreamy team captain, and navigating the spooky rules of the supernatural, how can Mina go from striving to be a ten alone, to becoming one of nine chaotic bodies forming a perfectly-imperfect team? Forget being the best. Will she be enough to help her new friends survive the season?
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★ "High-octane....a refreshing balance between spectral sports romp and queer found family narrative." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The familiar sports story gets an engaging twist with the paranormal creatures, and Mina letting go of perfection in favor of having fun with something new is relatable and sweet.” —Booklist
"This hybrid-genre graphic novel rolls by on raucous wheels, its anarchic and camp tone perfectly suiting Mina’s coming-into-herself as a rebel in the queer community of paranormal-derby....Defiant and joyful alongside Cristian Castelo’s Wild: Or So I Was Born to Be and Victoria Jamieson’s Roller Girl, this graphic novel just might be your library’s next jam." —The Bulletin
"An entertaining story about a teen finding her own place in life and starting down her own path. Recommended where paranormal graphic novels are popular." —School Library Journal
"Dialogue is snappy and fun, and their comedic timing is on point. Paired with Tatiana Hill’s highly-saturated, action-packed, meme-referencing illustrations, the pages of Blood City Rollers feel alive. Or perhaps, given the subject matter, undead?….a delightful, queer, middle-grade romp about doing what you love and finding your people.”
— The Beat
ISBN 9798217014538 (Audiobook Download)
Published on Sep 24, 2024
Published by Listening Library
Age Range 8-12 years
Grade Grades 3-7
Reading Level Lexile: GN400L | Fountas/Pinnell: X
ISBN 9780593485699 (Hardcover)
Published on Apr 9, 2024
Published by Labyrinth Road
Pages 192
Dimensions 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Age Range 8-12 years
Grade Grades 3-7
Reading Level Lexile: GN400L | Fountas/Pinnell: X
ISBN 9780593485712 (Paperback)
Published on Apr 9, 2024
Published by Labyrinth Road
Pages 192
Dimensions 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Age Range 8-12 years
Grade Grades 3-7
Reading Level Lexile: GN400L | Fountas/Pinnell: X
ISBN 9780593485729 (Ebook)
Published on Apr 9, 2024
Published by Labyrinth Road
Pages 192
Age Range 8-12 years
Grade Grades 3-7
Reading Level Lexile: GN400L | Fountas/Pinnell: X
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