This One Summer
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Description
A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
An Eisner Award Winner
Rose is always excited for summer. It means the lake house with her parents, but most importantly, it means she gets to spend the summer with her best friend Windy. This year, though - it's different. Rose's parents won't stop fighting and when she and Windy look for distractions, they find a whole new world. It's full of local teens-just a few years older than they are - and one of them is caught up in something very bad and very secret. Rose and Windy have to navigate the confusion, heartbreak, and hope that comes with being right on the edge of growing up.
In This One Summer, the Tamaki cousins weave a coming-of-age tale of girlhood, friendship, and nostalgia-for-right-now that has changed the landscape of graphic novels.
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This book is immersive, nostalgic, and just the right amount of gut-wrenching. It almost made me cry. Three times. It's rare for fiction to do that. This book isn't bittersweet, but rather, just the right amount of bitter and just the right amount of sweet. Rose and Windy have a great friendship. They pick up where they leave off each summer when Rose's family goes to Awago Beach, where the smell of leaves could be anyone's favorite, where the water holds dark secrets. The artwork is absolutely beautiful. It makes me feel like I'm right there watching the whole story unfold. But then, things change. Rose's parents are having problems, and she projects her anger onto another girl in the town who she has never met before. It gets really intense and Rose doesn't know how to handle it all - proving that knowing isn't half the battle.
i love reading graphic novels so why is this only my second one ??? the art in this one is SO BEAUTIFUL! i especially love how jillian tamaki draws bodies and movements. the atmosphere of a lazy summer was also captured perfectly which makes this novel a beautiful summer/holiday/beach-read. every frame transports emotion and the story shows me how a quiet book can still be painful. there are all these nuances to growing up and being a young girl and they can be experienced in this small book. i don't know how to feel about the fact that the jenny-story was left with such an open ending, though. it could have provided closure for rose's character development, i guess. other than that, i absolutely enjoyed it. there should be a sequel about windy and rose when they're a few years older as i'd love to read more about them. :')
Description
A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
An Eisner Award Winner
Rose is always excited for summer. It means the lake house with her parents, but most importantly, it means she gets to spend the summer with her best friend Windy. This year, though - it's different. Rose's parents won't stop fighting and when she and Windy look for distractions, they find a whole new world. It's full of local teens-just a few years older than they are - and one of them is caught up in something very bad and very secret. Rose and Windy have to navigate the confusion, heartbreak, and hope that comes with being right on the edge of growing up.
In This One Summer, the Tamaki cousins weave a coming-of-age tale of girlhood, friendship, and nostalgia-for-right-now that has changed the landscape of graphic novels.
Book Information
Posts
This book is immersive, nostalgic, and just the right amount of gut-wrenching. It almost made me cry. Three times. It's rare for fiction to do that. This book isn't bittersweet, but rather, just the right amount of bitter and just the right amount of sweet. Rose and Windy have a great friendship. They pick up where they leave off each summer when Rose's family goes to Awago Beach, where the smell of leaves could be anyone's favorite, where the water holds dark secrets. The artwork is absolutely beautiful. It makes me feel like I'm right there watching the whole story unfold. But then, things change. Rose's parents are having problems, and she projects her anger onto another girl in the town who she has never met before. It gets really intense and Rose doesn't know how to handle it all - proving that knowing isn't half the battle.
i love reading graphic novels so why is this only my second one ??? the art in this one is SO BEAUTIFUL! i especially love how jillian tamaki draws bodies and movements. the atmosphere of a lazy summer was also captured perfectly which makes this novel a beautiful summer/holiday/beach-read. every frame transports emotion and the story shows me how a quiet book can still be painful. there are all these nuances to growing up and being a young girl and they can be experienced in this small book. i don't know how to feel about the fact that the jenny-story was left with such an open ending, though. it could have provided closure for rose's character development, i guess. other than that, i absolutely enjoyed it. there should be a sequel about windy and rose when they're a few years older as i'd love to read more about them. :')