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Hale, Shannon

Best Friends

270 pp. | Roaring Brook/First Second | August, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-31745-2 $21.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-250-31746-9 $12.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by LeUyen Pham & Hilary Sycamore. In this follow-up to her graphic memoir Real Friends, Hale covers the ups and downs of her sixth-grade year in 1980s Salt Lake City: maintaining her place in the popular group, determining whether she "likes" or "like likes" a boy, figuring out what her so-called friends think she's too old to do. She also begins to explore her burgeoning hope of becoming a writer. Pham's panel illustrations deftly convey the intensity of emotions and delineate between Shannon's lush, dreamy, imaginative world and her sometimes-stark real one.
Reviewer: Grace McKinney | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2019

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