The Shadow Hero

Description:

In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity ... The Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. In the Chinese neighborhood of San Incendio, Hank's mother wants him to become a superhero. Hank is not interested, until gangsters threaten his father's grocery.

subjects: Families,  Asian Americans,  Magic,  Superheroes,  Fiction,  Children's fiction,  Heroes, fiction,  Comic books, strips, etc.,  Adventure and adventurers, fiction,  Science fiction,  nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2014-08-03,  New York Times bestseller,  Comic books, strips,  Juvenile fiction,  Graphic novels