I love how Awkward celebrates intelligence, diverse interests, and school community. He’s weird, but he finds acceptance among his Art Club peers. And I loved the little guy who is obsessed with sunspots. I loved her coffee mug of “Student Tears.” The bumbling male art teacher is hilarious–even the students know he needs supervision when using the copy machine. The science teacher (coolest science teacher ever) is an African-American woman. Minor student characters represent a wide variety of ethnic groups, including a Muslim girl wearing a headscarf. Jamie’s mother is a wheelchair-bound artist. I especially love the diversity of the characters. He’s just started the Amulet series (Kibuishi) this week, and has already asked me about Book #7, which we just got in my library. My own 11-year old son will tell me that he “doesn’t like to read,” but he will suck down Pokemon and Big Nate and Diary of a Wimpy Kid like it’s nobody’s business. In my years in the library, I have seen how graphic novels can turn non-readers into voracious readers practically overnight. The graphic novel genre has grown considerably in my time as a librarian, and while I do still sometimes see a stigma on graphic novels as “not real reading,” it is much less pronounced than it was several years ago. Like many librarians, I am always on the hunt for good graphic novels that my students will love. If only she can muster the nerve to apologize to him. But Peppi regrets this shove, especially since it turns out the boy, Jamie, is a nice boy who could become a good friend to Peppi.
Peppi is mortified when the other kids laugh at them and nickname Peppi “Nerder Girlfriend.” To prove she isn’t the boy’s girlfriend, Peppi shoves him and runs away. On her first day in a new school, Peppi Torres trips into a shy boy in the hall.
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