Fifteen-year-old Kit spends the summer feeding stray cats and meets Jess, an artistic punk girl who creates an avatar called Katman, in honor of Kit's quiet heroism.
Presents facts, figures and more to debunk myths about things, including comic books, video games throughout history that have been deemed to cause bad behavior and psychological damage in children.
Despite being teased by his peers, sixteen-year-old Kit refuses to give up his new hobby of tending to local stray cats, especially after his one friend and closest companion creates a special drawing that depicts him as the humane hero he has become.
Dean Tollridge spends hours playing army with his friends in the woods behind his home, and plotting out missions when he should be doing schoolwork, but reality intrudes when the boys encounter a homeless veteran living in their imaginary battlefield. Presented in graphic novel form.
The lives of two boys--one teen growing up in 1977 suburban Chicago who has a habit of shoplifting from the convenience store and another living in 1941 Berkeley whose family is forced into a Japanese American internment camp--intersect as they learn about compassion and loyalty.
