Sunday, February 29, 2004

Novel concept: Florida's Sun-Sentinel reports on the Boynton Beach High School library's 600-book graphic-novel collection, which accounts for 50 percent of the books students check out. Other area schools soon may follow suit with graphic-novel sections of their own:

"We don't frown upon them at all. The content level is pretty high. The words are often hard and the pictures help students decipher what the words mean."