Re-Gifters

by Sonny Liew, Mike Carey, Marc Hempel

Book Overview

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A Korean-American California girl who's into martial arts learns that in gifts and in love, what goes around comes around. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140120371X
• ISBN13: 9781401203719
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: CMX
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

The best Minx book out there

This is the first Minx book I found, and it's the one that made me seek out more. Re-Gifters offers engaging, complex and quirky characters, a lot of subtle emotional content, a view into the Korean/Korean-American worldview, excellent drawings, and a twisty plotline that keeps you turning those pages. Viva Mike Carey & co! Many Minx books later, I still think it's the best one.

Great graphic novel

Dixie has two passions in life: hapkido (ancient Korean martial art) and Adam (her hapkido classmate). But the two don't mix. Dixie has lost her ki, the spiritual energy that makes her strong. She isn't able to focus when Adam is around. And the national hapkido championships are here. Will Dixie be able to find her ki in time for the championships? Will she win Adam's affections? Or will a re-gifted item show her the true path? For those of you who aren't familiar with the term (or who are too young to remember Seinfeld), re-gifting is when a person uses a gift you have given them and gives it to someone else. The story is great and really comes full-circle. The character of Dixie grows and matures. I also love the supporting character of Dillinger, who grows and changes himself. After reading this book, you learn that outward appearances sometimes hides the true person within. The graphic novel format works really well for this story too.

Young teens love this book

This is the second in the series I've bought for my granddaughter. She really enjoyed it.

Awesome Tale!

A savvy bookseller I know said a friend of his wrote a review in the NY Times saying that graphic novels are fiction dumbed down(Here I go with another one of my counter reviews): Re-Gifters is fantastic! Especially for someone like me, 46 y.o., who wants to get a clue about what teenagers think about today. Don't miss this Minx series! Also, if this NY Times reviewer has never read Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and/or Persepolis II(plus any number of other graphic novels today), she's got another thing coming re: the intelligence of certain graphic novels.