He's the dork." With the clear, stylish art, the strongly appealing characters and just the right pinch of drama, this book will undoubtedly make readers stand up and cheer. When Greg snubs Callie in the halls and misses her reference to Guys and Dolls, one of her friends assuredly tells her, "Don't worry, Cal.
The palpably engaging and whip-smart characterization ensures that the charisma and camaraderie run high among those working on the production. Equally determined to make the best sets possible with a shoestring budget and to get one of the Mendocino boys to notice her, the immensely likable Callie will find this to be an extremely drama-filled experience indeed. Callie's healing heart is quickly captured by Justin and Jesse Mendocino, the two very cute twins who are working on the play with her. Callie's just getting over popular baseball jock and eighth-grader Greg, who crushed her when he left Callie to return to his girlfriend, Bonnie, the stuck-up star of the play. Seventh-grader Callie Marin is over-the-moon to be on stage crew again this year for Eucalyptus Middle School’s production of Moon over Mississippi. Smart, insightful, poignant-leavening brutal, middle school realities with wry humor.įrom award winner Telgemeier ( Smile, 2010), a pitch-perfect graphic novel portrayal of a middle school musical, adroitly capturing the drama both on and offstage. Ably assisted by a diverse cast of characters, Glad (who, like her family, is white) discovers that learning how to solve one's own problems is necessary to avoid making them again. Planning for Mom’s promised visit presents another challenge: keeping Dad from dating until then.
As Glad is asked to invent more-complicated fixes, school administrators are becoming suspicious. Her only lunch-table companion remains grade-skipping “Harry Homework,” 10, who assists classmates with homework (André, the Anti-Bullying Aardvark notwithstanding) to avoid harassment. A few friends would be nice, yet popularity eludes her. Trustworthy, dependable Glad never extracts payment for her efforts. She helps one sustain belief in a fictitious Canadian boyfriend makes up excuses for another to miss band practice and assists a third in shedding the girly school apparel her grandma insists on for the T-shirts and jeans she prefers. Now, Glad regularly finds excuses for Mabel and provides desperate classmates with cover stories. Glad discovered her problem-solving skills three years earlier, when their mom needed an excuse for forgetting Agnes at school.
Their hardworking lawyer dad can’t replace what’s missing. Since their mother left their family, over a year ago, narrator Gladys, 12, and her sisters-popular Mabel, 16, and brainy Agnes, 9-have longed for her return. An inventive seventh grade fixer discovers the downside of solving others’ problems.
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