Today, Emmie and Brianna spend their lunch writing deliberately over-the-top love. She loves to draw and is good at it too and has a best friend, Brianna, but her crippling shyness makes school and interacting with, well, anyone, really scary. Middle school will always have its ups and downs, but "Invisible Emmie" shows how even the worst day can end with joy and relief. Thirteen-year-old Emmie is the quiet girl at school, the one nobody notices. Emmie’s story is part of the growing subgenre that hybridizes the middle-grade and graphic novel. However, even end-of-the-worldlevel heartache can have surprising and comic consequences. The story's twisting end is also unique, especially as both characters are surprised by self-growth and freedom. Potato Reads Read along, Invisible Emmie By Terri LibensonRead along and buy the book here-. This debut novel from US cartoonist Terri Libenson follows two girls who could not seem more different: shy, observant, wallflower Emmie and loud, popular. One bad day in seventh grade can feel like a lifetime. When Emmie says, "I'm trying to ignore him," Katie counters with "It's not working. When Emmie is teased mercilessly by the obnoxious Joe Lungo, Katie says, "Why do you let him pick on you?" Katie also shows Emmie how to effectively take care of herself. (Then again, Katie doesn't see Emmie as a threat.) Needless to say, Emmie's day goes from bad to worse.īut "Invisible Emmie" isn't a generic book about middle school.įirst of all, author Terri Libenson doesn't make Katie the stereotypic "mean girl." In fact Katie supports Emmie when she's suffering. Before long, the obnoxious Joe Lungo finds it and reads it aloud in homeroom. In Positively Izzy, we meet Bri, the brain, and Izzy, the dreamer. The meat of the story doesn't begin until the halfway point when Emmie and Bri decide to write love notes (which they never plan to send) to their crushes.Įmmie's note falls out of her binder. Great book for young girls A great book for young girls, follows Emmie and how she deals with having a love letter written to a boy be shared with the entire grade. Invisible Emmie is the story of quiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katie, and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day, when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands.
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