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A new graphic novel from Oregon Book Award-winning cartoonist Breena Bard takes on Climate Change and shows practical ways kids can participate in activism—even if they don't want to march.

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Portland creators are getting in on the boom. By Julia Silverman 12/13/2020 at 5:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Portland Monthly An hour before the panel of authors was set to take the stage, the line at the 2019 Portland Book Festival event was already at least 1,000 hard-core, book-clutching fans deep, most of them craning their necks and standing on tiptoe, trying to game out whether they were close enough to the front of the line to snag a spot inside the 376-seat Whitsell Aud...