A well-executed twist will have readers flipping back to see what they missed while cheering the strides made by Libenson's no-longer-invisible heroine. Katie rises to her defense, but Emmie eventually learns to speak up for herself, realizing that embarrassment isn't the end of the world and being social isn't as impossible as she thought. ![]() Emmie and Katie share a crush on classmate Tyler, and when a sappy love note Emmie writes to Tyler as a joke is made public, Emmie is humiliated. Invisible Emmie is a humorous and surprising debut graphic novel by Terri Libenson. Si ce n'est qu'elles sont amoureuses du mme garon. Katie's chapters, by contrast, are big, splashy panels that reflect her outgoing personality ("I'm just your average teenage girl," she says after being offered movie roles and the crown of homecoming queen). Tout spare Emmie, l'invisible, de Katie la populaire. Ask readers if or when they realized the true nature of Katies character. With frizzy hair and hunched shoulders, Emmie shows up in tiny vignettes, sandwiched between blocks of text, that make her look as small and insignificant as she feels. Terri Libenson did a great job keeping the reveal a surprise. Emmie is self-deprecatingly funny, and it's easy to root for her as she starts to shed her overly sensitive skin. This is the story of two totally different girls - quiet, shy, artistic Emmie popular, outgoing, athletic Katie - and how their lives unexpectedly. School is stressful for shy, quiet Emmie Katie, meanwhile, is breezily popular, confident, and beautiful. Libenson presents Emmie's story with smaller, detailed art in muted colors surrounded by text but tells confident Katie's story with large comics-style panels, bold lines, and bright colors. ![]() In her first children's book, cartoonist Libenson (The Pajama Diaries) offers strikingly different visions of seventh grade through two very dissimilar narrators.
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