Friends with Boys
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4.3 • 20 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A coming-of-age tale with a spooky twist!
Maggie McKay hardly knows what to do with herself. After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and rough-housing with her older brothers, it's time for Maggie to face the outside world, all on her own. But that means facing high school first. And it also means solving the mystery of the melancholy ghost who has silently followed Maggie throughout her entire life. Maybe it even means making a new friend—one who isn't one of her brothers.
Funny, surprising, and tender, Friends with Boys is a pitch perfect YA graphic novel full of spooky supernatural fun.
This title has Common Core connections.
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After being homeschooled her whole life, Maggie is starting high school at a public school and she's understandably terrified. Anxiously she goes to school and eventually makes a few friends that others might consider weird because of how they look, but they turn out to be good comrades. In the midst of this easy-to-read slice-of-life action, Maggie is also being haunted by a female ghost who died about 200 years ago. Despite the addition of the ghost to the story, the graphic novel continues in realism mode, instead of shifting to a horror tale. And while the book starts out strongly, it leaves many things unanswered, like why Maggie's mother left or what the ghost wants, leading to a somewhat abrupt ending. Maggie is a likable main character, however, and her anxiety about school is well portrayed, while Hicks's black and white art is sharp and comically expressive. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
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It was an awesome book with great illustrations but... It was a little.... Short? Like a lot of questions were left unanswered and the length was disappointing. I do want to read more, is there a part 2?
This book is great!!!!!!!🤩👩🏾🦱
I love this book because it tells the story of a girl who is being homeschooled and I know some people who are homeschooled
Words on page
They words on the Page overlap on iBooks and it makes this sooo hard to read. Needs to be fixed
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