EIGHTH GRADE IS MAKING ME SICK by Jennifer Holm with illustrations by Elicia Castaldi. Random House, 2012.
Ginny Davis' year as an 8th grader is replete with changes: a stepfather (Step-Bob), a pregnant mother, a new house, and a brother who gets into serious trouble. All this and more is delivered through a novel that is a hybrid of graphic novel, realia, picture book, and more. Lists, emails, screenshots, post-its, and other ways of transmitting the text make this a book that will attract a wide range of readers. Ginny is a fully developed character: we come to know her from this snippets of insight into her life, her thoughts, her feelings. This is the mark of an incredibly talented duo whose combined efforts have created a unique whole. <464>
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