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This Land Is Our Land: a Blue Beetle Story by Julio Anta

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This Land Is Our Land: a Blue Beetle Story

Julio Anta, Jacoby Salcedo, Francesco Segala

DC Comics · Paperback · October 1, 2024

Reading lane: YA Superhero Comics

2025 Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2025 Texas Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List (Starred Title) Writer Julio Anta and artist Jacoby Salcedo take readers on a gripping and inspiring journey filled with both high stakes and heart as Jaime embraces his new calling as Blue Beetle!

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Good for fans of Graphic NovelsGood for readers who enjoy YA Superhero Comics and Hispanic & Latino YA.

Book Details

Authors
Julio Anta, Jacoby Salcedo, Francesco Segala
Publisher
DC Comics
Published
October 1, 2024
Format
Paperback
Theme
YA Superhero Comics · Hispanic & Latino YA
Reading lane
YA Superhero Comics

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Publisher Categories

  • YA Superhero Comics

  • YA Coming‑of‑Age Comics

  • YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Diversity & Multicultural

About This Book

2025 Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2025 Texas Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List (Starred Title) Writer Julio Anta and artist Jacoby Salcedo take readers on a gripping and inspiring journey filled with both high stakes and heart as Jaime embraces his new calling as Blue Beetle! Jaime Reyes is an ordinary high school student in El Paso, Texas, with a deep love for his family, culture, and home. Whether it’s working with his d...

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2025 Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2025 Texas Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List (Starred Title) Writer Julio Anta and artist Jacoby Salcedo take readers on a gripping and inspiring journey filled with both high stakes and heart as Jaime embraces his new calling as Blue Beetle! Jaime Reyes is an ordinary high school student in El Paso, Texas, with a deep love for his family, culture, and home. Whether it’s working with his dad at the auto shop or a multi-generational barbecue filled with music and dance, Jaime loves nothing more than his neighborhood’s spontaneous gatherings that go late into the night. But lately he’s begun to realize that he and his border community are being used as pawns in an increasingly toxic immigration debate. The last few months have seen armed troops deployed along the U.S. and Mexico border, manufactured crackdowns at official border crossings, and now at the community level, a mounting resentment amongst a group of disaffected and reactionary youth who believe they’re being “replaced” by El Paso’s growing immigrant population. And to make matters worse, one of Jaime’s oldest friends, Riley, has bought into the propaganda. What started off as innocent web searches has now led Riley down a path to joining an unabashed hate group with a chapter in El Paso looking to cause some real-world violence. But Jaime’s problems get even more complicated when he finds an odd bug-like artifact while stargazing. He starts feeling a little different—like there’s another voice in his head pushing him towards his most base instincts. And to make matters worse, he’s been having surreal dreams that show him that the true threat El Paso faces isn’t “illegal aliens,” but actual aliens known as the Reach. In fact, according to his dreams, Jaime is meant to pave the way for the Reach’s impending invasion!

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