
Honor Girl
A Graphic Memoir
Candlewick Press · Print & ebook · May 9, 2017
“Thrash has so carefully and skillfully captured a universal moment. . . .
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- 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
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved.
SpinningTillie Walden56% matchShares Graphic Biography
Holding Up the UniverseJennifer Niven54% match
The Last to Let GoAmber Smith58% match
Friends With BoysFaith Erin Hicks60% match
The Last Girls StandingJennifer Dugan59% match
To Be HonestMaggie Ann Martin55% match
The Nowhere GirlsRebekkah Ross, Amy Reed55% match
For younger readers: Fighting Words, Lumberjanes Vol. 1
For older readers: Any Man
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
“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.
Continue reading
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 Teens | 95% |
|---|---|
| Graphic Social Topics | 75% |
| Graphic Biography | 74% |
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