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Reminding kids to love themselves and who they are is so important and I’m glad my son got the teaching from reading this book! I highly recommend everyone to read this series!īuy it here for free shipping: Book Depository or Macmillan’s website
I like the issues of feeling not good enough vs feeling just enough. She avoided at all costs to get up in front of the class to get a tissue off a teacher’s desk but she able to perform on stage. An example is her runny nose in math class. I liked how Shannon reached out to make friends and in the drama team despite how she usually doesn’t like the spotlight. There’s a book I read on this topic called Folded Notes from High School. I do love those notes I passed back and forth with my friends too. I felt exactly like Shannon with the boyfriend situation and the not beautiful.
It brought back a lot of memories for me. Eventually she figured out a way to feel better and out of the depression hole.įriends Forever was very well written and illustrated. This worry spiraling downhill and made her depressed. She had a lot of emotions and constantly worrying that she’s not good enough. She worried if something was wrong with her when she had no boyfriend while her friends had many. Her friends all coupled up with boys except her. She begged her mom to take her to a salon for a new hairstyle just to feel beautiful as her friends. She wanted to be beautiful, famous, successful, liked by boys, etc.
Even though she has friends, she still felt like she’s not good enough. In seventh grade she made some friends, boys and girls so she continued the friendship in eighth grade. This book followed Shannon starting eighth grade. She wanted to make her parents proud but at the same time she wanted to do something and be somebody instead of thinking herself as a homemaker, a job most men think women should settle. Shannon was a straight A’s student who strived to win and be the best student. Love the glimpse into the illustrations process at the end of the book! Love seeing the publicity team’s eighth grade photos! Thanks for sharing! I like how this book influenced my son in a good way. Excellent illustrations! I can imagine it’s hard to make individual faces, hair, body image and clothes for so many characters. A fantastic read, another installment with good humor and real life crisis. My 9 year old also read it and finished it in 2 days. My Experience: I started reading Friends Forever on and finished it on. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books are sold.” Please see below for more information about the author and publisher. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. According to the publisher’s website, “First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City.
This book is intended for readers ages 10 to 14. There are three books to this series: book 1 is Real Friends, book 2 is Best Friends, and book 3 is Friends Forever. The genres are middle grade nonfiction, graphic novel, and memoir. It will be published on by First Second, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, paperback, 304 pages. With their signature humor, warmth, and insight, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham have crafted another incredible love letter to their younger selves and to readers everywhere, a reminder to us all that we are enough.Ībout: Friends Forever is a middle grade graphic novel memoir written by Shannon Hale and illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Is something wrong with her? Can she be the person everyone expects her to be? And who does she actually want to be? Everything keeps changing, her classmates are starting to date each other (but nobody wants to date her!), and no matter how hard she tries, Shannon can never seem to just be happy.Īs she works through her insecurities and undiagnosed depression, she worries about disappointing all the people who care about her. Shannon is in eighth grade, and life is more complicated than ever. Following up their mega-bestselling Real Friends and Best Friends graphic memoirs, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with Friends Forever, a story about learning to love yourself exactly as you are.