![]() ![]() As fate would have it, Raina trips over her adolescent feet and realizes that while her bones seem whole and intact, her two front teeth are not. Smile opens with Raina coming home from a Girl Scout meeting and racing with her friends to her front door. From beginning to end, Smile shows us how to gracefully embrace life’s twists and be more sensitive to others who are doing the same. As such, the book speaks honestly and humorously to us all. What readers realize is that as Raina deals with accident traumas and earthquakes, navigates friendships with her childhood girl friends, and learns how to deal with boys in middle and high school, most of us have some kind of issue we must deal with in adolescence. Smile is an empowering, heart-warming story about a typical teenager who feels out of place with her changing body, skin, and teeth, and whose only wish is to be a “normal” teen. In this autobiographical coming-of-age graphic novel memoir, Raina Telgemeier ruminates with humor and honesty on the tumultuous challenges and perils of her teen years: from the trauma of falling one night on her way home from a Girl Scout meeting severely injuring her front teeth, to dealing with boys, earthquakes and the true meaning of friendship. Smile is a New York Times bestseller winner of the 2011 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, 2012 winner of the Maine Student Book Award, 2012 finalist for the Children’s Choice Book Award, 2011 ALA Notable Children’s Book, 2011 Honor Book for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 2010 Kirkus Best Book of 2010 and the New York Times Editors’ Choice, 2010. They smile back!” – Raina Telgemeier, Smile “Weird…Something happens when you smile at people. This post takes a closer look at Smile by Raina Telgemeier. In this column, we examine books that have been targeted by censors and provide teaching and discussion suggestions for the use of such books in classrooms. Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of banned books and to help parents and teachers raise readers. Graphic Novels: Suggestions for Librarians.Working With Libraries! A Handbook For Comics Creators.Know Your Rights: Student Rights Fact Sheet.Raising a Reader! How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love To Read!.Adding Graphic Novels to Your Library or Classroom Collection.Kirkpatrick, NY State Court of Appeals (1973) Obscenity Case Files: Joseph Burstyn, Inc.Des Moines Independent Community School District Obscenity Case Files: United States v.Pacifica Foundation (George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words) Obscenity Case Files: People of New York v. ![]()
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