I recommend this book to people who know not to say the bad words that are in this book. Will Emmie get the note back before Joe shows it to the entire school? Or will Emmie be humiliated? As I always say, read the book to find out. Uh oh! You know how I said earlier that Emmie likes someone? Well, the bully, Joe, is friends with that boy that Emmie likes (although he’s nothing like him). Emmie’s love note slips out of her hands when she’s walking out the door. Emmie and Bri start writing love notes about boys they like. This is the part where there’s some yucky-lovey stuff. It’s her second favorite class because Emmie loves to write and the stuff sticks to her brain when she does it… Katie feels sorry for Emmie…Įmmie has a bad time in gym, but Katie has a great time. Katie gives Joe a mean look and he hands the drawing back to Emmie. The class bully, Joe, snatches her drawing away and laughs. When Katie gets into class, everyone is already sitting down and doing stuff. Everybody has someone to talk to except for Emmie… Once Emmie gets into homeroom, everyone is talking. She’s really organized and has lots of time to relax…Įmmie’s first period is science. Join Miss Marisa to discuss a middle school chapter book or graphic novel each month This month, well be discussing Invisible Emmie by Terri Libenson. She can’t wait to get her day started! She spends the morning chilling, unlike Emmie. Katie has lots of friends and can’t wait for school.
She has a normal morning (a normal morning for Emmie means that no one pays attention to her and she goes to lots of classes which, in her words, are “boring”)….
Her parents go through the usual questions and then it’s off to school for her. Four full-color graphic-novel hybrid books in the bestselling Emmie & Friends series from award-winning and bestselling author and cartoonist Terri Libenson. Basically, she’s just an average teenage girl. Some call her lucky, but she works hard for everything. Maybe entertaining I read a few sections of this book over my 8 year old's shoulder and found it to be inappropriate for her, not because it was violent or used poor language, but because the messaging felt off to me. Sometimes she goes to the mall and she meets new people. Parent of a 5 and 8-year-old Written by Sarah D. On weekends, her friends come over and have sleepovers. She likes a lot of fashion, music, and social events. Her parents are pretty cool and they’ve never embarrassed her. Her parents run a candy business and sometimes she’s the taste-tester. She lives in a center house in a neighborhood with all her friends around her. Emmie says that she’s pretty bad at the usual things that get people’s attention. Her nickname is “Bri.” Emmie’s favorite thing to do is draw. Brianna lives exactly nine minutes away by car. Her dad is really quiet and it doesn’t really say what his job is. The house used to be very loud when her siblings were around. Her parents work in different cities, so that leaves her at the house alone after school while she waits for her parents to come home.
It actually says in the book that a mouse and Emmie have a tie for muteness. She used to be loud when she was a baby, but now she’s as quiet as a mouse. Emmie’s story is more like a book than a comic and Katie’s story is more like a comic than a normal book.Įmmie is thirteen and in 7th grade. It switches story points throughout the book, though both have to do with each other. One is named Emmie (that’s actually why I wanted to read this book!) and the other is named Katie. Told in alternating past and present chapters, Becoming Brianna unfolds over the eight months leading up to one eventful day-as well as over the course of the big day itself.Hi! Do you like to read comics? Well, this book is a comic – sort of. Just Jaime introduces us to two friends, Maya and Jaime, on their last day of seventh grade and just maybe the last day of their friendship if they can't figure out who is a real friend and who is a frenemy.
On the day of the school talent show, the girls' lives converge in ways more dramatic than either of them could have imagined. In Positively Izzy, we meet Bri, the brain, and Izzy, the dreamer. 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. Four full-color graphic-novel hybrid books in the bestselling Emmie & Friends series from award-winning and bestselling author and cartoonist Terri Libenson! A great gift for the middle school graphic novel fan in your life.Ĭrushes.