However, I wish we didn’t have to wait until the very last page to figure it out. I was wondering through the whole book what the connection between the two stories was, and I liked the ending. I liked the big reveal at the end of this book. If I felt sick or needed anything, I could always go downstairs and see her. My mom worked in my school office for many of my elementary school years, and it was so handy to have my mom there! I loved it. But we had to wait a while for the big reveal that her mom is a teacher. These are real things, which could mean that you miss out on school events.īrianna’s mom works at her school, which I think was kind of obvious from the way she acted at the beginning. Parkers had a terrible summer and just wants to be invisible, while Sven is. I liked that these girls had to deal with conflicts like getting poor grades and being grounded. Emmie is saving up for a new wheelchair, one that is made for skating. The girls’ lives converge in unexpected ways on the day of a school talent show, which turns out to be even more dramatic than either Bri or Izzy could have imagined.
At the same time, she wishes her mom would accept her the way she is and stop bugging her to “break out of her shell” and join drama club.
But she wants people to see there’s more to her than just a report card full of As. Today, Emmie and Brianna spend their lunch writing deliberately over-the-top love. This is the story of two totally different girls. Holm, Invisible Emmie is a humorous and surprising debut graphic novel by Terri Libenson, creator of the internationally syndicated, Reuben Award-winning comic strip The Pajama Diaries. She loves to draw and is good at it too and has a best friend, Brianna, but her crippling shyness makes school and interacting with, well, anyone, really scary. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jennifer L. The downside? She can never quite focus enough to get her schoolwork done.īri is the brain. Thirteen-year-old Emmie is the quiet girl at school, the one nobody notices. There’s nothing Izzy loves more than acting in skits and making up funny stories. Rating details 15,437 ratings 1,069 reviews This is the story of two totally different girlsquiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katieand how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Jennifer Holm, and Victoria Jamieson.
Award-winning comics creator and author of the bestselling Invisible Emmie Terri Libenson returns with a companion graphic novel that captures the drama, angst, and humor of middle-school life.