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    All Summer Long
    All Summer Long
    All Summer Long
    Ebook80 pages21 minutes

    All Summer Long

    By Hope Larson

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    *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018!*

    All Summer Long    , a coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel about summer and friendships, written and illustrated by the Eisner Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling Hope Larson.

    Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together, but he's off to soccer camp for a month, and he's been acting kind of weird lately anyway. So it's up to Bina to see how much fun she can have on her own. At first it's a lot of guitar playing, boredom, and bad TV, but things look up when she finds an unlikely companion in Austin's older sister, who enjoys music just as much as Bina. But then Austin comes home from camp, and he's acting even weirder than when he left. How Bina and Austin rise above their growing pains and reestablish their friendship and respect for their differences makes for a touching and funny coming-of-age story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 1, 2018
    ISBN9781466898189
    All Summer Long
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    Hope Larson

    Hope Larson is the author of All Summer Long, which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018 and an Eisner Award Nominee, as well as the recently published sequel, All Together Now. She also adapted and illustrated A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel, which spent forty-four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and for which she won an Eisner Award. She is additionally the author and illustrator of Salamander Dream, Gray Horses, Chiggers, and Mercury, and the author of Compass South and Knife's Edge, both illustrated by Rebecca Mock. She lives in North Carolina.

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    • 4/5
      Summer for the tween rock nerds -- are rock nerds a thing? I think so. Aaaaaallllll about uncomfortable 13, learning the new dynamic with your friends and their siblings and finding out your things and how bored is ok. Nothing profound, but a great representation.
    • 4/5
      children's middlegrade graphic with minor incidentally gay characters (uncle and husband adopt a baby).
    • 5/5
      This was really cute!

      A lot of the subjects and themes presented in this book were portrayed really well: gay marriage and adoption being presented as completely normal and not creating any drama in the book; friends growing up but not necessarily apart just because their interests aren't the same anymore; feeling like friends are leaving you behind; discovering new music or pouring love into hobbies.

      Bina could be a little whiny, but she's 13, and I was super proud of her for calling Charlie out on her crap in one scene. Also good to see how Austin basically flat-out told Bina that they could do their own things/not do everything together all the time and still be best friends.

      Austin and Charlie's mom was rad, as were Bina's parents and brothers. I liked the scene where Bina was just hanging out with her dad, playing mini golf and goofing around. Their family dynamic was really endearing.

      I loved the ending, because it wasn't a stereotypical and trope-y boy-girl best friend romance outcome.
    • 4/5
      This was sweet. Middle school is a difficult time.
    • 3/5
      Not a bad book. The illustrations were okay but the story was better. Bina is alone during the summer with her bf at soccer camp. So she friends his older sister and has some adventures. I really enjoyed the series. The characters to me were drawn just okay. The ending was cute and left open for another book to follow.
    • 5/5
      When her best friend Austin goes off to soccer camp, Bina is left alone. She becomes friendly with Austin's sister, and discovers things about her family and herself, practicing her guitar and growing up.
    • 3/5
      Much like summer itself, it started out strong and full of promise and kind of fizzled at the end.
    • 2/5
      It was ok. I always want to like Hope's work and too often it falls flat for me. The color palette especially in this story struck me as odd. Art was good otherwise. Story just didn't thrill me.
    • 4/5
      A coming of age story. A young Mexican-American teen spends her first summer without her neighbour and best friend. Her world expands as a result. Clear picture style and a pleasant protaganist.
    • 3/5
      Bina looks forward to a summer of fun with her best friend Austin but is disappointed to learn he's been accepted to a month-long soccer camp. After a week of binge-watching TV, reading and playing her guitar, Bina hangs out with Austin's sister Charlie, has a misadventure in babysitting, and fangirls over her favorite band. Meanwhile Austin has been acting weird and Bina doesn't understand it. This is a story of young teens on the brink of change but it all works out going forward. Bina is a likable rocker-girl next door with an up-and-at-em attitude and clear-eyed perspective that will draw tween and young teen readers.
    • 3/5
      I recognize truths here from my own teenage daughter's recent summer vacations, but that doesn't keep this nice little slice-of-life meander through the hottest months of the year from seeming pretty slight in the end. I enjoyed it in the moment, but doubt I'll dwell on it or remember it for long.
    • 4/5
      When Bina’s best friend Austin goes away to soccer camp, she strikes up a friendship with his older sister Charlie, sort of. Or is Charlie just using Bina because there’s nobody else around? And why is Austin not answering her texts?This is an awesome feel-good story, which is unusual for this sort of adolescent angst storyline. To some, it might seem that it wraps up too neatly, but I think it will be super reassuring to kids going through the sorts of issues Bina is facing. Recommended to fans of graphic novels like Awkward, Drama, and Roller Girl.

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