Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash

Honor Girl

A Graphic Memoir

Maggie Thrash

Candlewick Press · Print & ebook · May 9, 2017

“Thrash has so carefully and skillfully captured a universal moment. . . .

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Who it’s for
A candid, visually nimble memoir that reads as both keepsake and conversation starter.
Genres
Graphic Biography, LGBTQ+ for Teens, Graphic Social Topics
Published
Candlewick Press, May 9, 2017

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“Thrash has so carefully and skillfully captured a universal moment. . . . A luminescent memoir not to be missed.”— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort.

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Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She’s from Atlanta, she’s never kissed a guy, she’s into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl, and Maggie’s savant-like proficiency at the camp’s rifle range is the only thing keeping her heart from exploding. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it’s too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle, let alone to understand.

Why It Clicks

A candid, visually nimble memoir that reads as both keepsake and conversation starter.

Come here for

  • graphic memoir intimacy
  • queer teen coming-of-age, drawn with a light hand

Expect

  • accessible but layered
  • book-club friendly honesty

Where it sits

LGBTQ+ for Teens95%
Graphic Social Topics75%
Graphic Biography74%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Graphic Biography
  • LGBTQ+ for Teens
  • Camping & Outdoors
Authors
Maggie Thrash
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Published
May 9, 2017
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Graphic Biography