Mabuhay!: A Graphic Novel
Adventure stories, Folklore, fables and fairy tales, Humourous fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
From rising star Zachary Sterling comes a humorous and heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel that celebrates food, family, and folklore.Can two kids save the world and work their family food truck?First-generation Filipino siblings JJ and Althea struggle to belong at school.… JJ wants to fit in with the crowd, while Althea wants to be accepted as she is. To make matters worse, they have to help their parents run the family food truck by dressing up as a dancing pig and passing out samples. Ugh! And their mom is always pointing out lessons from Filipino folklore -- annoying tales they've heard again and again. But when witches, ogres, and other creatures from those same stories threaten their family, JJ and Althea realize that the folklore may be more real that they'd suspected. Can they embrace who they really are and save their family?