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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World
325 pp.
| Disney/Marvel |
February, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4847-8154-8$13.99
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4-6
Fourteen-year-old Doreen Green, half-girl, half-squirrel, uses her squirrel powers to save her New Jersey neighborhood from her arch-nemesis in this origin story to the comic books. The focus shifts among Doreen, squirrel Tippy-Toe, and Doreen's deaf bestie Ana Sofía; throughout, Doreen adds first-person footnotes that are humorous but also interrupt the story's flow. Comical text-message interludes with other Marvel characters are a welcome bonus.