Awkward
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By Svetlana Chmakova, and and, Svetlana Chmakova
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Cardinal rule #1 for surviving school: Don’t get noticed by the mean
kids.
Cardinal rule #2 for surviving school: Seek out groups with similar
interests and join them.
On her first day at her new school,
Penelope—Peppi—Torres reminds herself of these basics. But when she trips into
a quiet boy in the hall, Jaime Thompson, she’s already broken the first rule,
and the mean kids start calling her the ""nerder girlfriend."" How does she handle
this crisis? By shoving poor Jaime and running away!
Falling back on rule
two and surrounding herself with new friends in the art club, Peppi still can’t
help feeling ashamed about the way she treated Jaime. Things are already awkward
enough between the two, but to make matters worse, he’s a member of her own
club’s archrivals—the science club! And when the two clubs go to war, Peppi
realizes that sometimes you have to break the rules to survive middle
school!
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The second book that I read this summer was Awkward, a realistic fiction graphic novel written and illustrated by Svetlana Chmakova. This book is set in a school called Berrybrook Middle. It's about a fight between two different clubs: the Art Club and the Science Club. The main character is a girl called Penelope Torres. Penelope, or Peppi, is new, and she doesn't really understand what they're fighting about. But Peppi has a Science Club friend called Jaime, and so she's kind of stuck in the middle. I liked this book because I can really relate to the problem; I was in the middle of a huge fight between two groups last year, but they all worked it out in the end, just like in the book.
I would love to recommend this graphic novel to anyone who wants a realistic adventure of a girl who is just trying to keep calm. I give it five stars.
