{"id":34175,"date":"2014-08-22T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=34175"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:18:03","slug":"sisters-by-raina-telgemeier-with-color-by-braden-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/sisters-by-raina-telgemeier-with-color-by-braden-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters by Raina Telgemeier, with color by Braden Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sisters\"<\/a>If the cover looks somewhat familiar, that’s because Sisters<\/em>\u00a0continues Raina Telgemeier\u2019<\/a>s highly entertaining (for the reader, certainly) coming-of-age escapades\u00a0she shared\u00a0in\u00a0Smile<\/a><\/em>, published four years ago to bestselling success. In Sisters<\/em>, she’s hasn’t quite shed her\u00a0braces, but she’s heading to high school come fall. That pivotal summer before, 4\/5 of the family climbs into a VW microbus\u00a0without<\/em> air conditioning and road-trips from California to Colorado\u00a0for a family reunion. That missing 1\/5\u00a0\u2013 Raina’s father\u00a0\u2013 claims work responsibilities and opts to fly.<\/p>\n

Raina\u00a0begins with “For Amara, obviously”\u00a0\u2013 that’s her on the right of that cover, otherwise known as Raina’s younger sister. Adulthood must have calmed the friction electrifying these pages, because almost immediately, Raina is screaming “Why did I ever ask for a sister?!” after nearly coming to fisticuffs. “How do you expect to survive a week in the car together if you can’t even get through dinner?” their mother chides in exasperation.\u00a0Once upon a time, for then-4-year-old Raina, meeting newborn Amara was love at first sight; alas, Amara’s response was an ear-piercing “WAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”<\/p>\n

Thanks to her headphones, the trip is bearable enough (except when her batteries die). In between camping, torrential downpours, bug infestations, stargazing, Raina wanders through her memories of being an only child for four years, then\u00a0the oldest of three in an ever-shrinking home, the family stress of a parent’s job loss, and more. She tries very hard to ignore any references to “the incident,” as traumatic as it was, but certainly Amara has too much fun giving her a hard time.<\/p>\n

When the family arrives at Aunt Mary’s, Raina is dubbed “Penelope” by one cousin, ignored by another, and\u00a0watches as the adults don’t get along\u00a0any\u00a0better than the kids. In a moment of almost-bonding, she hesitantly asks Amara, “You ever feel like you just don’t fit it?” But showing any vulnerability doesn’t quite turn out as it should. And then there’s still the long drive back home … will the family\u00a0survive?<\/p>\n

The four black-and-white photographs at book’s end seem to prove the veracity of Raina’s adolescent recall. As difficult as early sisterhood\u00a0might have been for the girls\u00a0(and their referee mother!), we readers are, of course, nodding, eye-rolling, guffawing along\u00a0\u2013 although I’ll admit a tear or two might have also escaped.<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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