![]() ![]() To view Smile at Amazon, please click on image of book cover. We are excited to find out what her friends think about this book and we’ll keep you posted on how it goes. ![]() ![]() My book club is 4th grade, and though the book seems suitable for a middle school audience, there is something about this graphic novel that makes younger kids also relate to it. It’s a graphic novel autobiography of author Raina Telgemeier’s challenging middle school and high school years fraught with challenges of dental issues from knocking out her front teeth but also social issues from finding a group of friends, surviving an earthquake, crushing on a boy and other typical painful adolescent transitions. This was a fun book that we both were able to read quickly. And on top of all that, there’s still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. From the artist of BSC Graphix comes this humorous coming-of-age true story about the dental drama that ensues after a trip-and-fall mishap. ![]()
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