"Written in collaboration with YA writer Stephan Lee, Donutella Hamachi and the Library Avengers is an homage to Kim Chi's own childhood spent engulfed in books inside her local library. The book follows 12-year-old Jae Han, a Korean immigrant who loves spending time at the library working on his original comic about the drag superhero Donutella Hamachi. The library is also where he meets other kids who don't fit in elsewhere."
"When I was 12 or 13, our family moved back from Korea to the States, and I had to relearn English all over again. I didn't have any friends here in the States, and our family was also poor so couldn't send me to summer camp or anything like that. So every day, I'd go to the public library and spend all day checking out media and reading books."
A middle-grade story follows 12-year-old Jae Han, a Korean immigrant who spends hours at his local library developing an original comic featuring the drag superhero Donutella Hamachi. The library becomes a refuge where Jae meets other kids who feel out of place and builds friendships through art and shared imagination. The safe space is threatened when the mayor proposes tearing the library down to create a shopping mall parking lot. Jae, his friends, and Donutella mobilize to save the library. The narrative celebrates drag, creativity, friendship, and the transformative power of libraries, rooted in childhood reading experiences and summer reading incentives.
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