

Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. I love how the books are helping them to become better readers while learning about real life issues in a fun way. Right now, they are reading Guts again, and they rarely read the same book twice. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahia de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. My twin daughters LOVE Raina Telgemeier books, and they have difficulty putting them down. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself.Ĭatrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. The companion to Raina Telgemeier's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling and Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir, SMILE. Instead she's the set designer for the stage crew.

And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she's a terrible singer. Raina Telgemeier, the author of the award-winning SMILE, brings us her next full-color graphic novel. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. Raina just wanted to be a normal girl, but one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls severely injuring her two front teeth.
