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Mabuhay! book cover
Mabuhay!
A Graphic Novel
2022
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
240
Number of Pages

From Zachary Sterling comes a 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. But that hope seems like a long shot, for both of them. 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?

Avg Rating
3.90
Number of Ratings
919
5 STARS
26%
4 STARS
43%
3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
1%
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Author

Zachary Sterling
Zachary Sterling
Author · 3 books
Zachary Sterling is a Filipino American illustrator, sequential artist, writer, and animation designer. Over the past several years, Zachary has worked on comics and graphic novels for young adult readers as well as animation designs for Frederator Studios and an unannounced project for Netflix. He was born in Torrance, California, but raised in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon—the place he proudly calls home.
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