title: Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir
author:  Maggie Thrash 
description: Gr 9 UpIn this poignant memoir, Thrash examines a pivotal summer, marked by first love, self-discovery, and some difficult realizations. At age 15, Maggie returned to Camp Bellflower for Girls, a Christian camp located in Kentucky that she'd been attending for years, and fell in love with Erin, an older counselor. She encountered hostility from narrow-minded fellow campers and adults alike, both for her same-sex attraction and for her general refusal to toe the line when she proved to be a more skilled marksman than another girl. Although she long aspired to be named Honor Girl (a distinction that each year went to the girl who most exemplified the camp's spirit), she soon began to see her seemingly fun-filled, carefree world as tight and constricting and to realize she possessed the power to forge her own identity. Like Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, authors of This One Summer (First Second, 2014), Thrash has a gift for imbuing everyday, slice-of-life moments with deeper meaning, and she effortlessly conveys the awkwardness of coming into one's own. The tone is spot-on, varying from funny and quirky to quiet and contemplative, and Thrash seamlessly weaves in light, turn-of-the-millennium pop culture touchstones like the Backstreet Boys with darker historical references (the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy). Brief interludes of heartfelt, intimately wrought text appear alongside or in between panels, and the art is raw, sketchbooklike. Readers will feel as though they're opening a scrapbook or journal rather than a more formal autobiography. VERDICT An insightful and thought-provoking work.Mahnaz Dar, School Library Journal
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  A Woman Like Her
  
  
  First published in 2018 in India as _The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel
  Baloch_ by Aleph Book Company Copyright © Sanam Maher 2018
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  First Melville House Printing: February 2020
  
  
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  ISBN 9781612198408
  
  
  Ebook ISBN 9781612198415
  
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2019949143
  
  
  Book design by Marina Drukman, adapted for ebook
  
  
  A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress
  
  
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