![]() Sadly, she set aside these mad skills in order to build a cartooning career. Terri Libenson grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania, where she made up puzzles and games and forced her friends to solve them (her mazes were the talk of town!). Plus don't miss Terri Libenson's You-niquely You: An Emmie & Friends Interactive Journal ![]() Told in alternating past and present chapters, Becoming Brianna unfolds over the eight months leading up to one eventful day-as well as over the course of the big day itself. Just Jaime introduces us to two friends, Maya and Jaime, on their last day of seventh grade and just maybe the last day of their friendship if they can’t figure out who is a real friend and who is a frenemy. ![]() On the day of the school talent show, the girls’ lives converge in ways more dramatic than either of them could have imagined. In Positively Izzy, we meet Bri, the brain, and Izzy, the dreamer. Invisible Emmie is the story of quiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katie, and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day, when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands. Terri has kindly signed bookplates for attendees who order her latest book in the EMMIE & FRIENDS series, BECOMING BRIANNA, the EMMIE & FRIENDS 4-Book Box Set, or her YOU-NIQUELY YOU Interactive Journal from An Unlikely Story, while supplies last.įour full-color graphic-novel hybrid books in the bestselling Emmie & Friends series from award-winning and bestselling author and cartoonist Terri Libenson! A great gift for the middle school graphic novel fan in your life.Ĭrushes. Terri and Victoria will chat about their latest books and answer audience questions. A highly relatable middle grade drama." - School Library Journal "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.Award-winning cartoonist Terri Libenson, the bestselling author and illustrator of the EMMIE & FRIENDS series, joins us for a virtual event moderated by Newbery Honor winning author Victoria Jamieson. ![]() A well-executed twist will have readers flipping back to see what they missed while cheering the strides made by Libenson's no-longer-invisible heroine." - Publishers Weekly "With all-too-familiar middle-school drama and an empowering lesson about speaking up and bravely facing down embarrassment, this should find an easy audience among fans of Wimpy Kid or Dork Diaries books." - Booklist "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. Reading Invisible Emmie sums up middle school: You laugh, you cry, you get beaned in the head with a volleyball." - Stephan Pastis, author of Timmy Failure "In her first children's book, cartoonist Libenson offers strikingly different visions of seventh grade through two very dissimilar narrators. Invisible Emmie is unforgettable!" - Lincoln Peirce, author of Big Nate "This funny and heartfelt tale will ring true for anyone who's ever felt invisible." - Victoria Jamieson, Newbery Honor author-illustrator of Roller Girl "Clever, funny work by a great cartoonist. A fantastic debut novel with plenty of laughs and tons of heart. "This is middle grade fiction at its best. ![]()
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