Author: Marieke Nijkamp
Illustrator: Manuel Preitano
Publisher: DC Comics
Pages: 208
Age Level: 12-14 years
Format: Graphic Novel
Series: One-shot, Comics
Genre: Superhero Comic
"After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed, Barbara Gordon enters the Arkham Center for Independence, where Gotham’s teens undergo physical and mental rehabilitation. Now using a wheelchair, Barbara must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss. Within these walls, strange sounds escape at night; patients go missing; and Barbara begins to put together pieces of what she believes to be a larger puzzle.
But is this suspicion simply a result of her trauma? Fellow patients try to connect with Barbara, but she pushes them away, and she’d rather spend time with ghost stories than participate in her daily exercises. Even Barbara’s own judgment is in question.
In The Oracle Code, universal truths cannot be escaped, and Barbara Gordon must battle the phantoms of her past before they swarm her future." (http://www.mariekenijkamp.com/musings/the-oracle-code/)
Character: Barbara Gordon is paralyzed and in a wheelchair
This is an own voices novel
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