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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Contributor(s): Tamaki, Mariko (Author)
ISBN: 1626722595     ISBN-13: 9781626722590
Publisher: First Second
OUR PRICE:   $15.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels - General
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Dating & Sex
- Young Adult Fiction | Lgbt
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2018944904
Lexile Measure: 230
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.4" (1.40 lbs) 304 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

One of FORBES Best Graphic Novels of 2019
On BCCB 2019 Blue Ribbons List
One of NPR's Best Books of 2019
Booklist 2019 Editors' Choice
One of Bitch Media's Best Queer YA Novels of 2019

Author Mariko Tamaki and illustrator Rosemary Valero-O'Connell bring to life a sweet and spirited tale of young love in Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, a graphic novel that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the healthy ones we need.

Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.

Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further out of her control, Freddy has to wonder if it's really Laura Dean that's the problem. Maybe it's Freddy, who is rapidly losing her friends, including Doodle, who needs her now more than ever.

Fortunately for Freddy, there are new friends, and the insight of advice columnists like Anna Vice to help her through being a teenager in love.

Contributor Bio(s): Tamaki, Mariko: - Mariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer of comics and prose. She writes comic books for BOOM! Studios, Marvel and DC Comics. She is the co-creator of the New York Times bestseller, This One Summer with Jillian Tamaki, which received Eisner and Governor General awards, as well as Caldecott and Printz Honors. Mariko lives in Oakland.Valero-O'Connell, Rosemary: - Rosemary Valero-O'Connell is a Minneapolis born, Zaragoza raised cartoonist and illustrator with a BFA in Comic Art from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She's done work for DC Comics, BOOM! Studios (where she worked on Lumberjanes), CAPY games, and Mondo Tees among others, and her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators NY, and shown in galleries both locally and internationally.