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Freshman: Tales of 9th Grade Obsessions, Revelations, and Other Nonsense
Annie has just started high school and she’s a mess. Her older brother has told her that her freshman year will strongly affect the rest of her life, and if that’s true her future is looking grim: She’s a loser at sports, is jealous of everyone, and has totally fallen in love with her best friend’s older brother. When she gets cast as a moaning, hunched-over old lady in th...more
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
July 6th 2011
by Zest Books
(first published November 2010)
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Annie is basically every Freshman. She has doubts. She has fears. She is human. Also, she is pretty easily influenced. She believes what her brother says, when he assures her that every decision she makes during high school will affect her for the rest of her life. And, she has a hopeless crush on her best friend's brother.
Katrina is that one girl that is always there for her friends, whenever they need her. But, she is also the jealous type that seems to be looking out for number one as well....more
Katrina is that one girl that is always there for her friends, whenever they need her. But, she is also the jealous type that seems to be looking out for number one as well....more
Sep 18, 2011
Wandering Librarians
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3 of 5 stars
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Annie starts off her freshman year of high school convinced (thanks to her older brother) that her first year of high school will determine the rest of her life. While she makes a new best friend, she also discovers that she’s terrible at sports, she’s in love with said new best friend’s older brother, and her attempt at being in the school play lands her the part of an ugly, whinny old women. Things never seem to go Annie’s way as she struggles to make it through her freshman year in one piece....more
Annie starts off her freshman year of high school convinced (thanks to her older brother) that her first year of high school will determine the rest of her life. While she makes a new best friend, she also discovers that she’s terrible at sports, she’s in love with said new best friend’s older brother, and her attempt at being in the school play lands her the part of an ugly, whinny old women. Things never seem to go Annie’s way as she struggles to make it through her freshman year in one piece....more
Star 1: The artwork...was...well, it was a style and though I feel like it was purposeful...it's just not my style, so only one star for it out of two.
Star 2: Characters: Well, what can you say? Are these really freshmen? Sure, I can see these right- out-of-8th-graders being freshmen. I thought that even though they seemed a little simple and 2D, they were pretty funny and lovable in their own way, even though you felt like shaking Annie a few times over her immense drama issues.
Star 3: I don'...more
Star 2: Characters: Well, what can you say? Are these really freshmen? Sure, I can see these right- out-of-8th-graders being freshmen. I thought that even though they seemed a little simple and 2D, they were pretty funny and lovable in their own way, even though you felt like shaking Annie a few times over her immense drama issues.
Star 3: I don'...more
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Melinda Dye - Graphic Novels
Annie, Richie, Katrina, and Zane are typical new freshmen: nervous but excited about their first year of high school. In the course of the year they suffer through stuck lockers, field hockey tryouts, new crushes, play auditions, questionable advice from siblings (once a drama geek, always a drama geek), not-so-friendly upper classmen, choosing the right after school clubs, and varying levels of humiliation in front of the student body. These four just want to get thr...more
Annie, Richie, Katrina, and Zane are typical new freshmen: nervous but excited about their first year of high school. In the course of the year they suffer through stuck lockers, field hockey tryouts, new crushes, play auditions, questionable advice from siblings (once a drama geek, always a drama geek), not-so-friendly upper classmen, choosing the right after school clubs, and varying levels of humiliation in front of the student body. These four just want to get thr...more
Annie is just starting her freshman year of high school and thanks to her older brother's words of wisdom is utterly terrified of "messing up". According to her brother, the choices you make and things you do in your freshman year strongly determine the outcome of the rest of your life. No pressure there! Annie is awful at sports, jealous of just about everyone and has developed a huge crush on a new friend's older brother --- so far, things aren't looking too great! This story is a great one to...more
Annie's freshman year is told through a series of incidents that anyone who has been in high school should be able to relate to. The drama of finding friends, and looking for relationships fits in with the ever present notion of who am I and where do I fit in? The art is simple, but draws one through the story well.
I picked it up because I wanted to see if my students would enjoy this book.
I finished it because I wanted to see how Annie would end her freshman year.
I would recommend this to Jessi...more
I picked it up because I wanted to see if my students would enjoy this book.
I finished it because I wanted to see how Annie would end her freshman year.
I would recommend this to Jessi...more
Annie starts her first year of high school a little adrift. Her brother has told her that what she does as a freshman will dictate the rest of her life, one of her best friends has ditched her and she just has no idea what to do with herself. She makes a new friend and tries a couple of activities before she finally finds something she enjoys, but all isn't solved by the end of the book, b/c well freshman year of high school is just the beginning. This would be a great read for any girl about to...more
Dec 11, 2012
Saiz M.
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This book is about this girl this girl that likes her friends brother. When she finds out that her friends brother Is in a relationship. The girl starts crying and her old friend tells her to go to a party with her. On Friday she goes with her friend to the party and gets ill so has to go home.q when she goes to school the next day she findes out the some one else likes her and askes her out and take her to the dance.to find out the rest you better read the book freshman.
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This book's dry sense of humor, and clueless characters reminds me of the animated TV show, "Home Movies" in the best possible way. The jokes can be really subtle, but they still have a way of resonating as they build. I like how the story is broken up into small chapters, but things still keep evolving and moving over the course of the school year. I also find Mucha's unique art style very appealing. Looking forward to whatever she does next.
Feb 22, 2013
Amber
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Audience: Intermediate level, mainly female
Appeal: Relating to the character in a new high school setting with new experiences
Application: Eighth grader getting ready to transition into high school
Award: YALSA Great Graphic Novel 2012; Honored as a Texas Library Association Maverick Graphic Novel;
Honored by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center as a Recommended Graphic Novel for Teens
Appeal: Relating to the character in a new high school setting with new experiences
Application: Eighth grader getting ready to transition into high school
Award: YALSA Great Graphic Novel 2012; Honored as a Texas Library Association Maverick Graphic Novel;
Honored by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center as a Recommended Graphic Novel for Teens
I thought this book was good. It was very easy to read along with, but then again it is sort of a comic book. It basically shows what every kid goes thru stepping into his/her freshmen year into highschool. It can be scary but yet a blast at the same time, in the end, everyone makes is thru. I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes short graphic books.
Perfect for a high school classroom library. It's quick and fun and I can definitely see it capturing a high schooler's attention. The artwork was simple but fitting and the story was realistic enough. It covered a lot of the things Freshman face during the first year of high school (dances, peer pressure, parties, dating, worrying about the future, etc.).
I'm a big fan of Corinne's zines and mini-comics, and of her first book My Alaskan Summer, but that still didn't prepare me for how much I loved this one. It's a really sweet story, told with Corinne's genius sense of humor (the reviewer that compared it to Home Movies -- one of my favorite shows -- is pretty accurate), and most of all I just got so attached to all the characters. They seem like people I would've actually been friends with in high school.
Hopefully there will be a sequel someday...more
Hopefully there will be a sequel someday...more
A series of short comics bound together, telling the story of a girl named Annie and her freshman year of high school. The stories are a lot of fun and unlike a lot of other 'teen!' comics, feel realistic (sometimes painfully so.... yes I had a Luke....). Overall a highly entertaining and heartfelt.
Oct 29, 2012
Tyler Tinker
added it
Ok book, tells about a girl who just started high school and all the things she goes through. she makes friends and they learn how to act and how to study in high school. she gets a part in the school play but she isn't very excited about it. she just learns how to survive freshmen year.
This book was a very interesting and amusing book filled with the many struggles of being a freshman at a new school and goes into the life of one girl who in grade school had a tight nit group of friends and once in high school found there own crowd and eventually grew apart.
I thought this was a good book but it was sometimes hard to follow. The book talked about how to make friends and how to keep them. It also talked about the general life of a freshman in high school. All in all I would recommend this book to other people.
A pretty fun look at two freshmen friends trying to survive middle school. Sports, clubs, former best friends, crushes and finding something you're good at. Pretty funny at parts, but doesn't get too deep.
I love how Corinne Mucha tells a story. She uses inventive structures and fresh points of view. Her art is expressive and fun to look at. A great graphic novel about high school, friends, and theater nerds.
So yeah, this got me reflecting on the ubiquitousness of this Minx comic girls in high school being kinda awks and adorbs genre that is wearing on me. Corrine puts her own hilarious spin on it, but it remains incredibly hindered by that genre. Nevertheless, Corinne, well played. Any 8th grader would be lucky to read your stuff.
It was not horrible, but it wasn't awesome. I guess it just didn't look like my freshman experience in so many ways. I can see twelve and thirteen year old girls enjoying it.
Told from multiple points of view in graphic novel format, this is a funny and somewhat nostalgic look at the first year of high school with all its ups and downs.
Cute read, interesting view of beginning high schoolers. It was a little stretched in parts, unrealistic. Would love to see Annie through High school.
Oct 31, 2012
A.C.E. Bauer
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A fun book about freshman year in high school from the point of view of an insecure, whiny girl who harbors real talent. I read it in one sitting.
I loved My Alaskan Summer and all of her mini-comics but felt that this had less humor than her last book and a sort of disappearing central character. A quick read, but I wanted to love it more.
There is nothing special about this graphic novel following a group of ninth graders through their first year of high school. The characters are lackluster, the situations are generic, and the artwork is a bit bland.
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