ellytheskelly's reviews
166 reviews

 So good that it made it to my secret list of books I recommended to my mom, even though this is outside of her usual genres

makes me want to read both more of Elizabeth Acevedo's work AND read more narratives told through poetry 

I'm somewhere between a 4.5 and a 5 on this one. I love the art style of this, and I enjoy seeing her journey, but I wish we saw more of what she actually did, rather than repeats of the same basic events (knocking on doors, talking to people, talking to family, rinse, repeat.) 

(This book was borrowed from the Athens Regional Library, it can be requested through the PINES library system in Georgia)

So far, this is my favorite one. 

In this book, Junie B. gets in trouble for spying, so when she spies on her teacher at the grocery store, and sees her commit the heinous crime of stealing a grape, she has to struggle to keep silent in order to protect her teacher and herself. 

an unexpected cry!!

It's a little bit juvenile in the writing, but it's the diary of a 7th grader, and it wouldn't be as strong of a story if it WASN'T written the way it was. 

Glows: You love to see a Graphic novel just to highlight comics made by autistic artists for autism acceptance month!

The comics seemed to be organized generally by topic? (At least it felt like ones that talked about similar things were back to back) It was nice to see different perspectives back to back like that! 

A lot of these comics are just BEAUTIFUL and worth looking at just to admire

I felt really seen and got lots of good advice for managing my life and advocating for myself 💖 

I love having all of the QR codes at the end for different resources, it was really helpful! especially because I checked this out from a local library? so I can follow all of these artists on my phone without needing the book in front of me as long as I have the webpage. :)

Grows: There's no headers/titles for some of the comics, so I had to flip between the table of contents and the pages themselves to find names, AND some of the names don't include social media links! 


I noticed some comics looked like they needed to be upscaled/lost some detail when being collected into this anthology. I was kind of disappointed to see some text/art blurred/pixelated along smaller details. 

Both?: There is a HUGE variety in themes and art here! Some did not click with me in terms of art style, and some didn't click with me in terms of content and what they were saying. I think that anyone could find at least a couple comics in here they like, and some others they might skim or skip. 


Overall, it was really worth the read, and I'd love to see these artists again in the future!