Raina Telgemeier
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illustrated by
Raina Telgemeier
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 17, 2019
With younger readers identified with nervousness in ever rising numbers, this guide provides a obligatory mirror to many.
Younger Raina is 9 when she throws up for the primary time that she remembers, attributable to a abdomen bug. Even a 12 months later, when she is in fifth grade, she fears getting sick.
Raina begins having common stomachaches that hold her dwelling from faculty. She worries about sharing meals along with her mates and consuming sure sorts of meals, afraid of getting sick or meals poisoning. Raina’s mom enrolls her in remedy. At first Raina isn’t certain about seeing a therapist, however over time she develops wholesome coping mechanisms to cope with her stress and nervousness. Her therapist helps her study to floor herself and calm down, and in flip she teaches her classmates for a college venture. Amping up the inexperienced, wavy traces to evoke Raina’s nausea, Telgemeier brilliantly produces extraordinarily correct visible representations of stress and nervousness. Thought bubbles encompass Raina in some panels, crowding her with anxious “what if”s, whereas in others her unfavourable self-talk seems to be actually crushing her. At the same time as she copes with nervousness dysfunction and what’s finally identified as delicate irritable bowel syndrome, she experiences the standard stresses of faculty life, going from cheer to panic within the blink of a watch. Raina is white, and her classmates are various; one greatest buddy is Korean American.
With younger readers identified with nervousness in ever rising numbers, this guide provides a obligatory mirror to many.
(Graphic memoir. 8-12)
Pub Date: Sept. 17, 2019
ISBN: 978-0-545-85251-7
Web page Rely: 224
Writer: Graphix/Scholastic
Evaluation Posted On-line: Could 11, 2019
Kirkus Critiques Problem: June 1, 2019