Night and Dana
Lerner Publishing Group · Paperback · September 12, 2023
A creative coming-of-age story for the climate-change generation Dana Drucker fights boredom in her Florida beach town by crafting special-effects makeup—the more gruesome, the better.
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- Who it’s for
- A prickly, playful coming-of-age story where homemade horror and a warming ocean share the frame.
- Genres
- YA Coming-of-Age Comics, YA LGBTQ+ Comics, Environmental YA
- Published
- Lerner Publishing Group, September 12, 2023
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A creative coming-of-age story for the climate-change generation Dana Drucker fights boredom in her Florida beach town by crafting special-effects makeup—the more gruesome, the better. But when a messy prank with Dana’s best friend Lily gets the wrong kind of attention, the girls have two choices: find a new creative outlet or leave high school without graduating. To save their shot at diplomas, Dana and Lily join a community college film class.
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It gives Dana a chance to keep practicing her monster makeup, as she and Lily start work on a horror movie inspired by local ocean warming. And a search for filming locations puts Dana in the path of Daphne Ocean, an activist and self-proclaimed water witch—the perfect kind of inspiring outsider. But when filming starts, Dana finds herself growing apart from Lily, who doesn’t seem to need her closest friend much anymore. Soon, tempers are flaring, and Dana’s pushing away old friends and her new mentor. But as everything starts going up in flames, Dana also begins to forge her voice. Night and Dana is a creative coming-of-age story for the climate-change era, a graphic novel about making art and growing up when it feels like the world is on fire.
Making a Scene
A prickly, playful coming-of-age story where homemade horror and a warming ocean share the frame.
Come here for
- Monster makeup and teenage filmmaking with a climate-conscious streak
- Friendships shifting as creative ambition takes hold
Expect
- Edgy humor alongside the unsettled work of growing up
- Art, friendship, and climate anxiety in the same frame
Where it sits
| YA Coming-of-Age Comics | 75% |
|---|---|
| Environmental YA | 58% |
| YA LGBTQ+ Comics | 49% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Coming-of-Age Comics
- Environmental YA
- Film & Movies for Teens
- Authors
- Anya Davidson
- Publisher
- Lerner Publishing Group
- Published
- September 12, 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- YA Coming-of-Age Comics