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Thrash, Maggie
3 Reviews
(3)
YA
In this follow-up to Honor Girl, Thrash recounts details from her junior year: she's depressed and failing high school; her beloved cat disappears; her federal-judge father and blue-blood mother are oblivious; and she believes there's a teenage ghost in her Atlanta home. Illustrated with a muted palette, Thrash's graphic-novel mash-up of memoir and ghost story contemplates loss and connection with ample wit and candor.
Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger
(4)
YA
Strange series.
During Winship Academy's science expo, someone is dealing drugs and the student body's African American president is gored by deer antlers. Benny and Virginia's investigation leads them to disturbing discoveries, both personal and societal (involving Atlanta race relations). The sleuths' relationship deepens in subtle, authentic ways in this more-convincing but still over-the-top mystery following We Know It Was You (later titled Strange Truth).
Reviewer: Lisa Catherine Findlay
(4)
YA
This graphic memoir traces Thrash's transformative final summer of sleepaway camp, during which she falls for a counselor, comes out, and weathers the mixed response. The muted pastels of Thrash's loose-lined watercolor-pencil and pen illustrations reinforce a contemplative tone, and teenage Maggie's inner journey is heartfelt and thoughtfully drawn. However, substantial textual "voice-overs" skew the balance between action and retrospection.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross
3 reviews
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