All's Faire In Middle School

Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! The Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl is back with a heartwarming graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire. Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she´s eager to begin her own training as a squire. First, though, she´ll need to prove her bravery. Luckily Impy has just the quest in mind--she´ll go to public school after a life of being homeschooled! But it´s not easy to act like a noble knight-in-training in middle school. Impy falls in with a group of girls who seem really nice (until they don´t) and starts to be embarrassed of her thrift shop apparel, her family´s unusual lifestyle, and their small, messy apartment. Impy has always thought of herself as a heroic knight, but when she does something really mean in order to fit in, she begins to wonder whether she might be more of a dragon after all. As she did in Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson perfectly--and authentically--captures the bittersweetness of middle school life with humor, warmth, and understanding.