Skim / Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2008Edition: First paperback editionDescription: 141 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780888999641
- 088899964X
- Teenage girls -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Coming of age -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Suicide -- Prevention -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Depression in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Love in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Bildungsromans
- Depression, Mental -- Fiction
- Suicide -- Fiction
- Love -- Fiction
- High schools -- Fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction
- New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens Books Award, 2008
- Ignatz Award, Outstanding graphic novel, 2008
- Doug Wright Awards, Best book, 2009
- Joe Shuster Award, writer, 2009
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Graphic Novel | TAMAKI, MARIKO | Available | 33111010388680 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008.
Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay, the school goes into mourning overdrive, each clique trying to find something to hold on to and something to believe in. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's high school, and that's what happens to Skim when she starts to meet in secret with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But when Ms. Archer abruptly leaves, Skim struggles to cope with her confusion and isolation, armed with her trusty journal and a desire to shed old friendships while cautiously approaching new ones.
Depression, love, sexual identity, crushes, manipulative peers --teen life in all its dramatic complexities is explored in this touching, pitch-perfect, literary graphic masterpiece. Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki collaborate brilliantly in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being sixteen.
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6
Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Presents the whole gamut of tortured teen life--friends, love, depression, suicide, and cliques--through the eyes of Skim, a.k.a. Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a would-be Wiccan goth at a girls' academy in Toronto during the 1990s.
Part I. Fall -- Part II. No rest for the wicked -- Part III. Goodbye (hello).
New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens Books Award, 2008
Ignatz Award, Outstanding graphic novel, 2008
Doug Wright Awards, Best book, 2009
Joe Shuster Award, writer, 2009