She’s popular and everything goes her way, but she’s not nasty about it. WHAT I LIKED ABOUT THIS BOOK…ġ) This is the story of two girls. It also involved a really embarrassing incident. Okay, five hours, If you want to get technical. You’re probably wondering how I became a puddle of slime. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Libenson, Terri.This is me. Invisible Emmie is a graphic novel that is told in the first person by the main character, Emmie. The novel seems to rotate its point of view between quiet and timid Emmie and the perfect and beautiful Katie, but in the end we learn that Katie is a fictional cartoon character created by Emmie, who draws comics in her notebook in order to help her deal with the pressures and stresses of being a girl in middle school. Emmie’s sections resemble a traditional novel with lots of white space and black words, interspersed with small sketches that add to the narrative. Katie’s sections resemble a traditional comic book. All of the action is told in colorful panels that feature captions, thought-bubbles, and dialogue-bubbles. The novel begins with a “prelogue” in which Emmie tells us that she has turned into a puddle of slime, and that she will explain how this happened and why. In the prelogue, Emmie talks about all the YA books that she has read, and said that most of them feature a main character who is an outcast for a specific reason and is bullied because of that reason. But Emmie is a main character who is simply quiet and unremarkable, neither bullied or popular, but simply invisible.Īs the novel starts in earnest, Emmie introduces herself. She is 13 years old and she lives with her two distant parents who are revamping their careers now that Emmie’s siblings have all moved out and gone on to college. Emmie spends a lot of time alone, and in this time she discovers that she loves to draw. In the first comic book section, Katie introduces herself as a beautiful, athletic, popular girl with a picture-perfect life. On Monday morning, Emmie wakes up and goes to school. She is frightened to tell two boys standing in front of her locker to move because she is so shy and so afraid of talking to new people, especially boys.
PICITURES OF EMMIE IN INVISIBLE EMMIE FULL
In the comic-strip, Katie arrives at school full of happiness and joy as everyone moves aside so she can reach her locker and her large group of friends. Emmie meets her best friend since kindergarten, Brianna, before homeroom and they walk to class together. Homeroom is the only class they have together because Brianna is gifted and placed into all the advanced classes. Now that they are in middle school, they spend a lot of time apart and their friendship is strained. In the comic strip, Katie goes to homeroom and sits with all her friends, who tell her that a boy likes her.Īfter homeroom, Emmie stops at the bathroom where she fantasizes about a vacation from school and then she goes to science class where no one talks to her.
She draws in her notebook so that she has something to focus on besides her anxiety.
In the comic strip, Katie goes into science class and sits with all her friends. She watches as Joe Lungo, a bully, steals Emmie’s notebook and laughs at the drawing of Katie. Katie feels bad for Emmie, but she thinks that the girl needs to stand up for herself.Įmmie goes to PE, which she hates because she is not athletic. In the comic strip, Katie goes to PE and has a blast because she is in great shape and all her friends are in that class, too. After PE, Emmie goes to English class, which she has with her crush, Tyler Ross. In the comic strip, Tyler passes Katie a note that asks her to go out with him. She says yes and is very happy.Īfter English, Emmie goes to lunch, where she sits with Brianna. The girls decide to write love-letters to their crushes as a joke. When the bell rings, the girls rush to class, and Emmie drops a piece of paper. In the comic strip, Katie eats lunch with all her friends and Tyler, and then she goes to her locker.
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