Chiggers by Hope Larson will open your eyes to the fantastic world of graphic novels! Fun! Fast-Reading! Wonderful Illustrations! Great Storyline! Chiggers is all of these things and more. A winner of the Eisner Award, Hope Larson's graphic novel is for adolescents and adults alike! A thoroughly enjoyable read...and this coming from someone who never thought I would pick up a graphic novel...let alone enjoy one! Abby is being forced to go to summer camp AGAIN! She is hoping this year things will be different. However, when she arrives everything is the same, and cabin cliques form on the first day, and although Abby is trying her best to fit in she has the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, and says the wrong things. When one of Abby's bunkmates is infected with chiggers and has to go home everything for Abby changes. Shasta is the new girl. The cabin clique decides the first day that she is stuck-up and annoying. Abby finds her interesting and decides to befriend Shasta despite what the snooty girls in the clique have to say. But Shasta has a lot of secrets and strange things start happening to her...like lightning being attracted to her wherever she goes! Will Shasta be the friend that Abby is hoping for at summer camp or is she just the same as all the other girls?
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raphic novel. My fear of graphic novels has been cured! The illustrations literally transport you into the book. The story-line flows well and keeps the reader interested in what is going to happen next. Hope Larson has done a great job at capturing adolescent girls. I think this would be a great book for students that have never read a graphic novel before. I would recommend this book for sixth grade and up. I think that although the story is about adolescent girls, adolescent boys can learn some lessons as well from this one! This was one of my first graphic novels, and I am now excited to see what else is out there!
raphic novel. My fear of graphic novels has been cured! The illustrations literally transport you into the book. The story-line flows well and keeps the reader interested in what is going to happen next. Hope Larson has done a great job at capturing adolescent girls. I think this would be a great book for students that have never read a graphic novel before. I would recommend this book for sixth grade and up. I think that although the story is about adolescent girls, adolescent boys can learn some lessons as well from this one! This was one of my first graphic novels, and I am now excited to see what else is out there!Here is a link to an interview with Hope Larson author of Chiggers:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=18076&page=article
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=18076&page=article
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