Reviewed by: Karen Yingling, Library Media Specialist, Ohio USA What I really think: I'll buy it, but I would have liked it more had there been fewer, more well-developed characters and a more substantial plot The inclusion of the LGBTQ+ characters was great, but they are really just introduced and not developed. There were a lot of characters, so it was hard to follow what was going on sometimes. Weaknesses: Faith's team doesn't really like soccer, which will put off some die-hard soccer players who pick this up.
Books with girls playing sports (with any students playing sports!) are always in high demand. The characters are well defined by differences in hair and facial expressions, so it wasn't hard to keep them straight. Faith's desire for friends, and her difficulty making them, will speak to many students. Strengths: This has a diverse cast of characters, appealing drawings, and realistically portrayed tween drama concerning friendship. In the end, Faith thinks that she might want to have her soccer team win for a chance, but when the team plays hard but still is losing, they all decide to leave the game and go hang out at one of their houses. At one point, Sodacan asks Faith to help steal a chicken from Maria's house, there is a long time friend who moves away to be with a grandmother, Maria befriends a girl who later comes out to her as gay, and Maria starts a relationship with Sammy, who was born a girl but who identifies as male. A lot of the girls are mean, but she is befriended by Maria and Sodacan, who tell her about the quirks of her teammates and watch out for her.īetween school, home, and soccer, Faith has plenty to keep her busy, and she also draws a medieval themed, manga style comic featuring a knight named Mathilda who talks Faith through difficult trials. As a fifth grader, she is excited to play with older students, but isn't pleased when she ends up on the "C" team.
Read alike: Invisible Emmie (series) Real Friends Best Friends (Shannon Hale)įaith is very shy, but when she starts her new school, the popular Amanda asks her to be on the soccer team. Keywords: diversity, diverse books, Black Lives Matter, fitting in, belonging, soccer, friendship, loyalty, graphic novel, popularity, cliques, middle school Johnson is a raw, and beautifully honest graphic novel that looks into the lives of a diverse and defiantly independent group of kids learning to make room for themselves in the world.-from the publisher Although they are awful at soccer, Faith and her teammates soon form a bond both on and off the soccer field that challenges their notions of loyalty, identity, friendship, and unity. Having never played soccer in her life, Faith ends up on the C team, a ragtag group that’s way better at drama than at teamwork. I’ve loved him from the moment he appeared in the PJO series, and when he came out (forcedly, the only thing that irritated me) I didn’t love him any less.
Nico holds a very special place in my heart for being the first gay character in the series. To her surprise, Amanda, a popular eighth grader, convinces her to join the school soccer team, the Bloodhounds. This doesn’t include gods or goddesses, though (discounting Lester/Apollo). All the crushes, humiliation, boredom, and drama of middle school are compressed into one surprising day in this extraordinary debut graphic novel. This text refers to the audioCD edition.Quiet, sensitive Faith starts middle school already worrying about how she will fit in. In addition to performing in plays and musicals, her voice can be heard on numerous commercials, audiobooks, cartoons, and video games. She is former cohost of Fridays on the Cartoon Network. Tara Sands is an American actress, television host, and voice talent who has won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration. She is the voice of many cartoon characters, including Leo and Luna in Yu-Gi-Oh, Carrie in Barbie: A Fairy Secret, Nathan in Pok e mon, and Lola in Angelo Rules. Her voice has also been heard on television in commercial campaigns and numerous Nickelodeon and Disney products. You can find her online at Cassandra Morris has received critical acclaim for her voice-over work from Publishers Weekly and AudioFile magazine, earning a dozen Earphones Awards and twice been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. Terri lives with her husband and two daughters in Cleveland, Ohio. She most definitely did draw a lot during class, which worked out well, since she grew up to be a cartoonist: she is the creator of the internationally syndicated, Reuben Award-winning comic strip The Pajama Diaries and was a longtime writer of humorous cards for American Greetings. Terri Libenson may or may not have been inspired by her own mostly good, sometimes harrowing middle school experiences in writing Invisible Emmie.
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