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    Ramp Rats: A Graphic Guide Adventure
    Ramp Rats: A Graphic Guide Adventure
    Ramp Rats: A Graphic Guide Adventure
    Ebook58 pages2 minutes

    Ramp Rats: A Graphic Guide Adventure

    By Liam O'Donnell and Mike Deas

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    Fresh from his adventures in Wild Ride, Marcus is back and helping his cousin, Bounce, learn to skate. Between learning how to ollie and do a 50-50 grind, Bounce and his friends also have to avoid the skate-park goons and take on the outlaw bikers who are terrorizing the small town. Excitement, action and some radical skating tips. Hang on for another wild ride!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateOct 1, 2008
    ISBN9781551438825
    Ramp Rats: A Graphic Guide Adventure
    Author

    Liam O'Donnell

    Liam O'Donnell was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in Canada.  He's lived in Toronto, Canada and is the author of several graphic novels, including the Max Finder Mystery series of you-solve-it comics.  He's never met a pirate and not sure if he ever wants to.  When he's not writing stories, he loves playing video games and going camping, but not at the same time.

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    • 4/5
      The summer is only just beginning, but Benny "Bounce" Sharp already knows there's going to be some trouble ahead. All he wants to do is use the skate park to learn some new tricks with his best friend, but the park is dominated by Crunch and his gang, and the police chief won’t allow skating anywhere else in town. Everyone tells Benny to stand up to Crunch, but that's easier said than done--especially when Benny makes an ill-advised bet about who will win the upcoming skate competition, with the stakes being use of the park. Luckily, Benny's stepbrother Marcus is in town to teach Benny the finer points of skateboarding--and to give him the courage to stand up to Crunch.

      This is a well-done book—the sections explaining how to do each trick are well-integrated into the story, and subplots involving local vandals and protection rackets manage to fit with the rest of the narrative instead of being extraneous. The directions on how to perform the different tricks seem clear to this non-skater. There is not a lot of specialized vocabulary (and what little there is, is defined early on) and while the illustrations are a little difficult to understand, when coupled with the text kids familiar with skateboarding should be able to figure out these moves.

      The artwork has a cheery, inviting Saturday-morning quality to it, and the cast is ethnically diverse without skin colors being an element in the story. The only quibble I had with the artwork is Benny’s slightly-feminine-yet-androgynous appearance; early references to “him,” “brother,” or other male signifiers are a little confusing until the reader realizes that Benny is, in fact, a boy. (His best friend is a girl, which is also not an issue to the story, but does reinforce the assumptions.)

      Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by this title—it’s rare to see narrative and how-to blended so seamlessly, without either half lecturing at the reader.

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