Honor Girl
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"Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl, and Maggie's savant-like proficiency at the camp's rifle range is the only thing keeping her heart from exploding. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it's too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle, let alone to understand" --
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Oh man, I love stories about summer camp as a place for personal growth! This captures the whole idea of being someone else at camp really well, and the art is beautiful. The leisurely pace is very summer-y. I think this would resonate with queer/questioning kids for sure, and maybe older kids looking for a girly realistic graphic novel along the lines of [b:Smile 6393631 Smile Raina Telgemeier https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1438206850s/6393631.jpg 6582125]. It doesn't have a good hook to sell it on but I think its audience will find it and love it.
I was skeptical about this art style at first but it fit the coming of age story perfectly
It took me forever to get through this. I don't know, I didn't connect with it. I think it had to do with the pacing. What I enjoyed is the experience of it, the setting is so very different from my own world. It was all foreign to me: sleepaway camp, the religious aspect, the guns, the southern thing. So, I'm grateful I got a peek into Thrash's world.
