This One Summer in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Feb 03, 2015 Sophie Brookover rated it really liked it

Shelves: middle-grade, ya, graphicnovels, 2015

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.

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Jan 18, 2016 Chessa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: graphic-novel, ya, the-mary-sue, popsugar16

Oh, this was so painfully realistic. The in-betweenness of the age of Rose and Windy, wanting boobs, almost studying the "townies" of their beach getaway town Awago, like trying to peer behind the curtain of grown-upness. They watch horror movies to prove something - to themselves? To the "Dud" at the check out counter at the corner store. I love that Windy is more true to her self - she is afraid of the movies and says so, she stands up to Rose when she starts name-calling all the girls in the ...more

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Jul 04, 2015 Jenny rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I really loved this graphic novel by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki. The black and white and purplish color palette reminded me of Blueberries for Sal, a picture book I loved as a kid, and the story made me think about summers of my childhood, where nothing happened but everything happened at the same time.

This is the story of Rose, who comes to Awago Beach every summer with her mom and dad and hangs out with her “summer friend,” Windy. This summer, though, things are a little different. Rose’s ...more

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Jun 18, 2014 Molly rated it really liked it

Shelves: graphic-novels-and-comics, ya, slice-of-life

A story about a girl and her family and one summer at a cabin. The nice thing about this book is that it demonstrates trouble within the family during one summer and it doesn't wrap it up at the end. It's just one of those parts of being in a family where everything is not perfect. It also captures well the nostalgia of childhood and childhood friends. ...more

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Jan 03, 2015 Donna rated it liked it

Shelves: teen, graphic

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. ...more

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Nov 09, 2017 Maya rated it really liked it

SUPER well done. Hit close to home and perfectly captured the feeling of being young in the summer with grown up problems happening around you. The intertwining of the art and words was so magical in spots, I would just linger on a picture for a while. Excellent.

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