The Whole World's Crazy
by:
Jimmy Gownley (author)
Meet Amelia Louise McBride. She's nine years old, a former New Yorker who's now living in a small town after her parents decided to get divorced, and dealing with everything from being the new kid in school to getting her first kiss. But you know what? She's got her mom and her aunt Tanner...
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Meet Amelia Louise McBride. She's nine years old, a former New Yorker who's now living in a small town after her parents decided to get divorced, and dealing with everything from being the new kid in school to getting her first kiss. But you know what? She's got her mom and her aunt Tanner (who happens to be an ex-rock star) and her friends Reggie, Rhonda, and Pajamaman, and everything's going to be okay. Except, of course, when it isn't. In this first book of Amelia's adventures, Amelia and her friends take on bullies (and Santa!), barely survive gym class, and receive a disgustingly detailed explanation of the infamous Sneeze Barf.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781442445383 (1442445386)
Publish date: October 4th 2011
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Humor,
Funny,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Manga
Series: Amelia Rules! (#1)
I liked the art and characters in this first of the series, but thought the stories themselves were uneven. I liked "Amelia McBride and the Other Side of Yuletide" the most. Amelia is definitely sassy, but her fighting with Rhonda...are friends really that mean to each other? I doubt it, so I guess ...
I have been told (more than once) that if I wanted to try graphic novels, this was the one to read first. I'm not sure what I expected, but it definitely wasn't this. Not that I didn't enjoy it for what it was - basically, a comic strip put into book format, it just isn't what I thought it would be....