The War at Ellsmere
Zombies Calling creator Faith Erin Hicks brings her manga-fueled art style and pop-culture sensibilities to girl's boarding schools in her latest book The War at Ellsmere. Jun is the newest scholarship student at the prestigious Ellsmere girls' boarding school - but to a lot of the privileged...
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Zombies Calling creator Faith Erin Hicks brings her manga-fueled art style and pop-culture sensibilities to girl's boarding schools in her latest book The War at Ellsmere. Jun is the newest scholarship student at the prestigious Ellsmere girls' boarding school - but to a lot of the privileged rich girls, scholarship student is just a code for charity case. Fortunately, Jun has an ally in the quirky Cassie, who tells her legends of a beautiful creature that lives in the forest outside of the school. Between queen bees and mythical beasts, Jun has quite the school year ahead of her.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781593621407 (159362140X)
Publish date: December 16th 2008
Publisher: SLG Publishing
Pages no: 156
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Teen,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Canada,
School Stories,
Boarding School
The War at Ellsmere is not exactly a groundbreaking graphic novel. The story is instantly familiar: a scholarship student at a ritzy school runs up against a snotty mean girl. There are any number of school stories built on this same framework, and Hicks doesn't do anything spectacularly novel with ...
Faith Erin Hicks's second professional graphic novel is much better than her first. While not very original, it's a charming little boarding school story about girl friendships and girl rivalries.Juniper, aka "Jun," is a thirteen-year-old scholarship student attending Ellsmere, an elite boarding sch...
The War at Ellsmere It’s more of your typical underdog beats’em all story, though it’s nicely rendered. I guess I like Gunnerkrigg better, but I wouldn’t mind reading more about Juniper and Cassie.
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