false <![CDATA[Skim]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214717732m/2418888.jpg 2418888 3 <div>The time is the early 1990s, the setting a girls' academy in Toronto. Enter "Skim," aka Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but Skim does just that after secret meetings with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. When Ms. Archer abruptly leaves the school, Skim has to cope with her confusion and isolation, as her best friend, Lisa, tries to pull her into "real" life by setting up a hilarious double date for the school's semi-formal. Skim finds an unexpected ally in Katie. Suicide, depression, love, being gay or not, crushes, cliques of popular, manipulative peers &#8212; the whole gamut of tortured teen life is explored in this masterful graphic novel by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki.</div> 2426065 book 28 2 2008 Skim total:693|5:148|4:306|3:193|2:36|1:10| 693 2625 995 223 4 3 false false Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 20:18:57 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 10:00:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 19:37:52 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 19:51:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 21:55:15 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 22:35:04 -0700 2008 Ghost World, being about a misfit girl, nicknamed Skim, and her best friend, whose paths are starting to diverge.
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I feel like I've seen Jillian Tamaki's work somewhere. Maybe she's a friend of an artist I like from FIST-A-CUFFS?

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by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

* Hardcover: 140 pages
* Publisher: Groundwood Books (February 28, 2008)
* Format: Graphic novel
* ISBN-13: 978-0888997531

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Kim Cameron, otherwise known as Skim, goes to an upclass private girl's school, where she's a bit of an outcast because of her looks (overweight, half-Asian), her muddled attempts to be Wiccan, and her best friend's aggressive anti-social attitude. When a classmate's...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2418888