Libenson's clever tale will entertain readers in the throes of middle school as well as younger students both wary of and intrigued by their near future. Terri lives with her husband and two daughters in Cleveland, Ohio. She is also the Reuben Award-winning cartoonist of the internationally syndicated comic strip The Pajama Diaries and was a writer of humorous cards for American Greetings. The more visible (and satisfyingly confident and outspoken) Emmie becomes, the less visible Katie becomes, until she completely disappears-a no-longer-needed coping mechanism that existed only in Emmie's imagination and drawings. Terri Libenson Terri Libenson is the bestselling author of Invisible Emmie and Positively Izzy. Both text and illustrations contain appropriately kidlike descriptions of her social anxiety (a "squeezy feeling in my stomach") along with humorous examples of the various horrors of middle school (an illustration shows a spotlight shining on Emmie as she changes clothes for gym class). When a classmate finds a note Emmie wrote about the boy she likes and shares it with everyone, Emmie goes from feeling completely invisible to feeling embarrassingly visible, with all her classmates staring and laughing at her. Emmie loves to draw and fills her narration with amusingly labeled doodles, while Katie's story is told comic-style. The main narrative follows a day in the life of super-shy seventh grader Emmie, who rarely speaks to a soul at school occasional sections follow "Katie," super-popular and impossibly perfect (she gets straight As, her parents have never embarrassed her, and everyone wants to be her BFF). Many readers will recognize themselves in Emmie and her friends, who are at once self-conscious and eager to be seen for who they are. Following the discovery of the love note, Katie comes to Emmie's defense, comforts her, and encourages her to stand up for herself.
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.
Inevitably, Emmie drops hers, and it is found and circulated by the obnoxious class clown. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jennifer L. Jamie and his partner Emmie fished Clawford Lake for a week and caught. Or text." To amuse themselves during lunch in the chaotic cafeteria, Emmie and her best (and only) friend Bri compose gushy love notes to their secret crushes. In homeroom, she notices "that quiet girl. Interspersed between the illustrated chapters are comics-style panels featuring Katie, a pretty, popular, friendly, confident girl also going through the same middle school day.
She goes through her life trying to make as little noise as possible, so that no one will see her. Emmie is a funny, creative girl who has painful social anxiety that causes her to retreat into herself and fear the judgement of her peers at all times. She copes by disappearing into her drawing notebook. Invisible Emmie is a graphic novel about a day in the life of a middle school girl.
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Gr 5–8-Readers follow a day in the life of Emmie, a shy, quiet eighth grader, as she scrambles to finish her homework, dreads gym class, and navigates hallways full of gossipy girls and spitty boys.
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