Highly recommended for any teenager (or tweenager) and easily accessible to reluctant readers. But as the day progresses, Emmie and Katie’s storylines begin to interact in surprising ways, and there’s a clever final twist to their story. Emmie’s story is interwoven with that of Katie, the girl Emmie kind of wishes she could be: popular, smiley, athletic. Told over the course of just one day and presented in a graphic novel diary-type format, Invisible Emmie is entertaining, touching and funny in equal measure.

She is 13 years old and she lives with her two distant parents who are revamping their careers now. How will Emmie handle the sudden attention? As the novel starts in earnest, Emmie introduces herself. It’s just supposed to be a bit of fun between the two friends, but when Emmie unknowingly drops one of them and it’s picked up by the most annoying kid in her class, school suddenly gets even more awkward than usual. Today, Emmie and Brianna spend their lunch writing deliberately over-the-top love letters to their respective crushes. She loves to draw – and is good at it too – and has a best friend, Brianna, but her crippling shyness makes school and interacting with, well, anyone, really scary. You could have students create their own graphic novel strip where they describe a scene from their own life where friendship was hard, or where they encountered being the 'new kid' and were nervous.Thirteen-year-old Emmie is the quiet girl at school, the one nobody notices. The author: Vera is an author/illustrator who has published some fantastic stories thus far. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Cece Bell, and Victoria Jamieson, Vera Brosgol's Be Prepared is a funny and relatable middle-grade graphic novel about navigating your own culture, struggling to belong, and the value of true friendship. from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller.

And nothing could prepare her for all the 'cool girl' drama, endless Russian history lessons, and outhouses straight out of nightmares!

Vera is sure she's found the one place she can fit in, but camp is far from what she imagined. Vera’s single mother can’t afford that sort of luxury, but there's one summer camp in her price range-Russian summer camp. Holm, Invisible Emmie is a humorous and surprising debut graphic novel by Terri Libenson, creator of the internationally syndicated, Reuben Award-winning comic strip The Pajama Diaries. Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jennifer L. Stephan Pastis, author of Timmy Failure In her first children’s book, cartoonist Libenson offers strikingly different visions of seventh grade through two very dissimilar narrators. Īll Vera wants to do is fit in-but that’s not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Reading Invisible Emmie sums up middle school: You laugh, you cry, you get beaned in the head with a volleyball. Many kids will relate to the challenges of friendships and navigating new situations.Ī gripping and hilarious middle-grade summer camp memoir from the author of Anya's Ghost. Holm, Invisible Emmie is a humorous and surprising debut graphic novel by Terri Libenson, creator of the internationally syndicated, Reuben Award-winning comic. I was excited to have my 3rd graders grab it, but there a few parts that take this one up to a true middle grade read (name calling: 'tit head', older campers caught making out, period-stained undies flying from the flagpole). Definitely a GN that should be in all middle grade classrooms.Īliza Werner review: Love this autobiographical graphic novel of young Vera going to Russian camp.

My review: An excellent graphic novel of Vera experiencing what it means to find friendship, enemies, and herself. With doodle-illustrated prose chapters depicting Emmies world and entire comics-style sections depicting the popular Kate, Libenson takes readers inside the.

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