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Michael Bitz, Manga High: Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School

Harvard Education Press, Massachusetts, 2009, 196 pp., ISBN 13: 978-1-934742-18-1

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Carter, J.B. Michael Bitz, Manga High: Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School. J Youth Adolescence 39, 100–102 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-009-9443-7

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