Kelsey
Review “This One Summer”
This one Summer by Mariko Tamaki is a graphic novel that captures the summer vacation of a young girl and her family. This story relates that this is a vacation spot that the family visits every year. The young girl in the story, Rose, is growing into a young woman. She is starting to see grownup problems for what they are. She sees her parents having problems over the inability to have a baby and a young couple having problems because of an unplanned pregnancy. As the story continues Rose becomes furious with her mother because she can’t understand the pain she is experiencing and her mother is not entirely honest with her for fear of overwhelming her. Eventually we find out the truth when her mom is able to overcome her fears to save the young impregnated girl from the water.One interesting piece of this graphic novel is how everything weaves together so nicely by the end. In that way it feels like a typical novel. This graphic novel would be suitable for many ages of readers. There is teen pregnancy and the topic of miscarriage so this would be better suited for upper middle school and high schoolers. In addition this would be a much more interesting book for females than for the male reader. I was not as interested in this novel as I have been in other novels this semester. Parts of it caught my attention but throughout most of the story I felt like I was reading a very “young” book. For his resin younger readers would not have the same bias I have and would still be very interested in the read. I would definitely recommend this book to struggling readers who do better with less text at the middle or high school level.
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