Author: Sarah Kuhn
Illustrator: Nicole Goux
Publisher: DC Comics
Pages: 208
Age Level: 12-14 years
Format: Graphic Novel, Comic
Series: One-shot
Genre: Superhero Comics
"Cassandra Cain, teenage assassin, isn't exactly Batgirl material...not yet, at least. But when Batgirl goes missing from Gotham, can Cassandra defy her destiny and take on a heroic mantle of her very own?
Cassandra Cain is the daughter of super-villains and a living weapon trained from birth to be the ultimate assassin. But that doesn't mean she has to stay that way, right? She'll have to go through an identity crisis of epic proportions to find out. But how do you figure out who you're supposed to be when you've been trained to become a villain your entire life?
After a soul-shattering moment that sends Cass reeling, she'll attempt to answer this question the only way she knows how: learning everything she possibly can about her favorite hero—Batgirl. But Batgirl hasn't been seen in Gotham for years, and when Cass's father threatens the world she has grown to love, she'll have to step out of the shadows and overcome her greatest obstacle—that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero." (https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/shadow-of-the-batgirl)
Character: Barbara Gordon is a paraplegic
Character: Cassandra Cain has PTSD and selective mutism due to lack of learning when she was younger. *mutism does go away as she begins to learn language.
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