Can you send me a free book?īelieve it or not, authors don't usually have extra copies of their books lying around! Books cost me money, too, and other people buying my books is how I make my living. I started making my own comic strips around the same time, and realized I liked putting pictures and words together to tell stories. My favorites were Calvin and Hobbes and For Better or For Worse. I started reading the funnies in my local newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, when I was nine. When did you start reading comics? Did you always want to make them? What's going on? Raina Telgemeier brings us three thoughtful, charming, and funny true stories about growing up and gathering the courage to face, and conquer, her fears.You can listen to me say my name here.
and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Guts Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along.
Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself.
But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Sisters Raina can't wait to be a big sister. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion and friends who turn out to not be 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.
Three laugh-out-loud graphic novels from the New York Times Bestselling author Raina Telgemeier Smile Raina just wanted to be a normal girl, but one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls severely injuring her two front teeth.
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