It’s so important to see representation in early reader MG books and this is an incredible addition to the MG space!!

I received a review copy from Edelweiss+.I really enjoyed this! It's light, fun, cute, and I read it in one sitting. It's a bit disjointed but I think it's fine considering the multimedia format. I'm not very knowledgable about Marvel but that didn't hinder my enjoyment! I feel like fans and non-fans would find it fun. Most importantly to me, it's a superhero book that has female characters as 2/3 of its main cast, WITHOUT it being overtly girly! That's a huge win for me.My main concern was that...

Ms. Marvel is here to learn all about being a hero and she meets friends and foes along the way!So I am not a big fan of Marvel (or DC), there is just too much and some other reasons.. But there are things I do love, like children’s books full with superheroes, some which I recognise, some I don’t. Haha. I have to be honest and say that while there are a lot of reference to heroes, baddies, and Marvel stuff, as long as you know some basics (like I do) you will be fine.This book looked just too m...

This book is chaotic, and not in a good way. The many multi-media elements that it juggles often run together in confusing ways, without clear demarcations of time and place. The beginning was especially difficult, since I had to figure out what order various artifacts came in to start getting into the story. Was a letter, for example, sent before or after the text exchange I'd just seen? Were these photos from the present, or illustrating past events? Even though series like Jedi Academy have b...

Dnf p. 53This was so disappointing! I love these characters and saw the potential here, but the execution leaves much to be desired. I can’t quite tell what the plot is beyond...new school awkwardness? The multimedia format can work so well but was super stilted and inconsistent here, with issues including: group chats with random people who should not be communicating, unclear concept of “secrecy” around the school (giant branding on the gear Kamala gets from Avengers Inst., etc), Kamala’s priv...

This is book 1 of 3 of the Marvel Avengers Assembly series from @scholastic and this book is from the perspective of Kamala Khan, Ms.Marvel (the other two include her but are from the perspective of Squirrel Girl and Spiderman-Miles Morales).Genre: MG graphic novelAges: 9-12Availabek: AmazonScreening: allusion to crushes, beating up bad guys, mention of an underwear/potty humor (pretty clean in general)Kamala is trying to figure out her way as Ms.Marvel when she is invited to join the Avengers I...

I'm a huge Miles Morales / Into the Spider-Verse and Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel fan, so I was really excited to check out this advanced reader copy described as middle-grade.I'm also 42, so I'm not the target market for this book. Please take my frustration with this book with its due grain of salt.I do read a good amount of middle grade graphic novels as a bookseller, and this felt very infantalized - both the characters and the audience - to me, relative to others targeting the same age group. I...

In Orientation (Marvel: Avengers Assembly #1) Ms. Marvel a.k.a. Kamala Khan is invited to enroll in the Avengers Institute. She’ll join fellow young heroes at the school to hone her skills in fighting villains, saving people, and learning to work as a team. Although Kamala would be thrilled to meet the superheroes she’s only written fan fiction about, she worries accepting will mean she isn’t already a good hero. Thankfully, she overcomes her reluctance because Avengers Institute might just be t...

Thank you to @Scholasticinc and @runwithskizzers for sharing an advance copy of Orientation (Marvel: Avengers Assembly #1) with the #Kidlitexchange network. This middle grades graphic novel was released in August 2020. All opinions are my own. Kamala Khan was an average middle schooler before Terrigen Mist swept through New Jersey activating her superpowers and turning her into Ms. Marvel. Now she can emmbiggen, disembiggen, stretch, and shape-shift. She uses her powers to protect her city; howe...

More Marvelous Marvel Characters!Diving into the MCU lately, I was happy to have the opportunity to read this Middlegrade graphic novel. It sort of has the comic-meets-prose approach: in-between a graphic novel and a regular book. The comic portions weren’t the focus - you get to read emails, journal entries, phone texts, news clips, etc to learn about these characters, mainly Kamala Khan (aka Ms Marvel). Recommended for any kid who enjoys the MCU and wants a hint at some of the characters comin...

Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, and Doreen Green are just a few of the young superheroes who have gotten special invitations to the Avengers special super hero school. Kamala thinks the invitation was a critique of how well she's been doing, but the others think the older Avengers just want to help make things easier and share some wisdom. And it turns out, they have a lot to learn. Can they figure out how to master their own unique talents and how to work as a team before the final exam?I love the

My book was about this young superhero named Ms.Marvel (her real name is Kamala Khan). She lives in jersey city and fights bad guys and may have been responsible for destroying a building. But then she gets a letter from a big-time superhero named Captain Marvel. This letter is inviting her to a superhero academy to fight alongside other young superheroes like her. Will she join this superhero academy and fight alongside young superheroes like her for you to find out go and read the book. The t

I got such a kick out of this. I am clearly not the target audience, but I do like Kamala and Miles and Doreen and enjoyed getting to see them have an adventure together. I also loved seeing Evan somewhere outside of an X-Men book. The concept (after school program for young heroes) makes a lot of sense, and it lets Kamala fangirl over her idols in person. The main characters feel like I would expect them to, just a bit younger. I think that kids who aren't terribly familiar with all of these ch...

After the teenaged heroes of the Marvelverse destroy a few too many buildings, Captain Marvel and Nick Fury start an afterschool program to teach them things like teamwork, ethics, and interdimensional travel. The course is capped with a decathlon the run in teams. Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, and Miles Morales team up and boy do they make friends along the way. The story is told through a combination of graphic art, texts, journal entries, superhero cards, fanfiction, and academic notes. It's lau...