TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elliott,Rachel
TI  - The real Riley Mayes
SN  - 006299574X
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Sexual minorities
KW  - Identity
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Self-realization
KW  - Middle school students
KW  - School children
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Belonging (Social psychology)
KW  - LGBTQ+ comics
KW  - local
KW  - School comics
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Graphic novels
KW  - Comics (Graphic works)
KW  - Coming-of-age comics
KW  - Queer comics
KW  - Gay comics
N1  - Ages 8-12
N2  - "Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking Joy Powers! Things start to look up when a classmate, Cate, offers to help Riley with the letter, and a new kid, Aaron, actually seems to get her weird sense of humor. But when mean girl Whitney spreads a rumor about her, things begin to click into place for Riley. Her curiosity about Aaron's two dads and her celebrity crush on Joy Powers suddenly make more sense"--Amazon.com
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