Bad Island
Bad Island book cover

Bad Island

Hardcover – August 1, 2011

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Price
$203.97
Format
Hardcover
Pages
224
Publisher
GRAPHIX
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0545314794
Dimensions
6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
Weight
1.4 pounds

Description

Doug TenNapel was raised in the town of Denair, California. In 1994, he created the immensely popular Earthworm Jim. Doug's first graphic novel for Scholastic, GHOSTOPOLIS, was a 2011 ALA Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for Teens, and his follow-up, BAD ISLAND, is a 2012 ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens as well as one of School Library Journal's Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2011. His most recent graphic novel from Scholastic, CARDBOARD, has been published to critical acclaim. Doug lives in Glendale, California.

Features & Highlights

  • Something on this island is up to no good . . .When Reese is forced to go on a boating trip with his family, the last thing he expects is to be shipwrecked on an island-especially one teeming with weird plants and animals. But what starts out as simply a bad vacation turns into a terrible one, as the castaways must find a way to escape while dodging the island's dangerous inhabitants. With few resources and a mysterious entity on the hunt, each secret unlocked could save them . . . or spell their doom. One thing Reese knows for sure: This is one Bad Island.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Enjoyed every page

You know how when you are looking forward to something so much and then it arrives and does not live up to the hype and you end up hating it?

Bad Island is not like this.

I preordered and when I got the shipping notice and waited the week or so for overseas delivery, anticipation began to mount.

I sat down with my son who was also looking forward to this and we read it together.

While reading it I noticed a couple of things, I was caring about the family and what was happening to them, I could see my own attitudes as a father well portrayed. I was eager to see where this was going and where the city sized robot type things came into it.

Any fault I'd lay with it is that the mother seemed to be a bit in the background, but that may be because the main theme of the book was father/son relationships (very apt that I was reading it with my son then!)
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This is not in "good condition"

The book is a discard. It smells moldy and is falling apart. Terrible condition!

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