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I love that this is the first-ever Caldecott-Printz crossover. The Tamakis are a formidable team & cam do so much with the simplest gestures & facial expression. Rose & Windy are both on the cusp of knowing and understanding complex things about love and relationships, and we get to spend one glimmering, awkward, revelatory summer with them as they stumble towards understanding & eventually having a complex social life. Very well done.
I read this book, like many graphic novels, in about an hour, hour and a half. It's somehow lushly-drawn in just two colors - blues and whites - and those colors are perfect for a summer beach story. Except when I say "beach story," I mean it takes place at a beach, not that it's a beach read. The story follows Rose and her family's annual summer trip to the beach, where she reunites with her best summer beach friend, Windy, once again, and they spend their days doing teenage girl beach stuff -
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Maybe this book needs a little reflection time before reviewing. I can see the artistic excellence in it, and the genius of the showing the transition time between childhood and teenage years. The book was fun, poignant, and painful. It shows the complexities of three different stages of life through the eyes of adolescent Rose, and does so very well. What I'm not sure of is how this book plays with actual young adults. Do they reflect on those recent years with the same eye that adults do? Is t
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Once in a while I will read a YA book that looks good, and I just loved the illustrations in this graphic novel. I felt mixed about the book itself, but I think it’s because it does such a good job of creating the muddle of feelings you’re experiencing as a pre-teen. It’s a messy, confusing time, and this book handles that perfectly. It follows a girl and her family on vacation at their summer cottage. It deals with crushes, changing bodies, arguing parents, infertility, sexism, aggression, and
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3.5 maybe? Girls on the cusp of adolescence spend a summer in a sleepy beach community swimming, watching horror movies, and speculating about the teens who work and hang out at the one store in town. One of the girl's parents are alternately arguing and ignoring each other for reasons that she doesn't understand but that she thinks has to do with her mother wanting another baby. Realistic and beautifully drawn, but I was underwhelmed by the ending.
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Excellently captures the awkward and confusing mental terrain of early adolescence, including the way small age gaps can suddenly seem giant as friends grow up.
read 10/31/15
This book has a story that could be easily just one of many in the YA genre, but the stunning, emotive illustrations pulled me in and would not let me go.
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