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Re-Gifters (Minx Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mike Carey
Creators: Marc Hempel, Sonny Liew
Publisher: Minx Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 56195
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 174
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 140120371X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401203719
Publication Date: June 6, 2007
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Product Description
Meet Jen Dik Seong -- or "Dixie" as she's known to her friends. Korean American, dirt poor, and living on the ragged edge of LA's Koreatown, Dixie's only outlet is the ancient martial art of hapkido. In fact, she's on the verge of winning a championship -- until she falls for fellow hapkido fan/California surfer boy Adam and gets thrown spectacularly off her game. As she struggles to win the tournament -- not to mention Adam's affections -- Dixie learns that in love and in gift-giving, what goes around comes around.
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 The best Minx book out there November 27, 2008
Tina Fields (Sebastopol, CA)
This is the first Minx book I found, and it's the one that made me seek out more. Re-Gifters offers engaging, complex and quirky characters, a lot of subtle emotional content, a view into the Korean/Korean-American worldview, excellent drawings, and a twisty plotline that keeps you turning those pages. Viva Mike Carey & co! Many Minx books later, I still think it's the best one.
 Great graphic novel July 3, 2008
Amy Ward (Lawrence County, OH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dixie has two passions in life: hapkido (ancient Korean martial art) and Adam (her hapkido classmate). But the two don't mix. Dixie has lost her ki, the spiritual energy that makes her strong. She isn't able to focus when Adam is around. And the national hapkido championships are here. Will Dixie be able to find her ki in time for the championships? Will she win Adam's affections? Or will a re-gifted item show her the true path? For those of you who aren't familiar with the term (or who are too young to remember Seinfeld), re-gifting is when a person uses a gift you have given them and gives it to someone else. The story is great and really comes full-circle. The character of Dixie grows and matures. I also love the supporting character of Dillinger, who grows and changes himself. After reading this book, you learn that outward appearances sometimes hides the true person within. The graphic novel format works really well for this story too.
 A little too cute, but enjoyed the "spiky" main character September 10, 2007
Handee Books, LLC (Santa Clara, CA USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
A little cute, as far as graphics go, for my taste. However, I really liked the "spiky" main character and enjoyed the story. My Faith in Frankie is still my favorite Mike Carey in graphic form...but this comes in second.
Young teens love this book August 16, 2007
Dusty (Portland, Oregon)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the second in the series I've bought for my granddaughter. She really enjoyed it.
Awesome Tale! July 8, 2007
Alexandra Ottaway
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
A savvy bookseller I know said a friend of his wrote a review in the NY Times saying
that graphic novels are fiction dumbed down(Here I go with another one of my counter reviews):
Re-Gifters is fantastic! Especially for someone like me, 46 y.o., who wants to get a clue
about what teenagers think about today. Don't miss this Minx series! Also, if this
NY Times reviewer has never read Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and/or
Persepolis II(plus any number of other graphic novels today), she's got another thing coming
re: the intelligence of certain graphic novels.
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