Sisters: a Graphic Novel
Scholastic Inc. · Paperback · April 5, 2022
Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile!
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- Who it’s for
- A clean, emotionally legible read with the snap of graphic storytelling.
- Themes
- Sibling Relationships, Family, Growing Up
- Pacing
- Mixed
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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself.
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Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and, later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all. Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.
Family Tension
A clean, emotionally legible read with the snap of graphic storytelling.
Come here for
- graphic-novel pacing
- family dynamics in a stageable, easy-read format
Expect
- sibling friction and closeness
- coming-of-age edges, kept accessible
Where it sits
| Kids' Comics & Graphic Novels | 88% |
|---|---|
| Sibling Stories | 66% |
| Girls & Young Women | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Siblings
- Growing Up (Adolescence)
- Comics & Graphic Nonfiction
- Authors
- Raina Telgemeier
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- Published
- April 5, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Sibling Relationships · Family · Growing Up
- Reading lane
- Siblings