La historia esta exquisitamente estructurada, para que cualquiera que la lea se sienta identificado. Llena de mensajes, algunos simples, otros muy muy complejos.

Astrid is 12-years-old and does everything with her best friend Nicole – until Astrid signs up for roller derby and Nicole starts making new friends at ballet. I wish there were more contemporary graphic novels because it's a wonderful, underrated format for them. Not only do we get a fantastic story, but are able to experience visually the pain, frustration and heartbreak of real life. I liked this Newbery Honor a lot. Beverly (in the discussion in Children's Books group) explains very well why it's so good. As far as the entitlement attitude, well, that's the theme of the book, as one of the things Astrid has to learn and deal with is that friends can grow apart. I had thought this would just be a cute, fun read. And it definitely is, but it's more. Our protagonist, Astrid, discovers herself, friendship, what being a true friend means, and the right way to dye your hair blue in roller derby. But she also gets important lessons in how some childhood friendships don't last forever and what to do when your former bff becomes chummy with a venomous hate pixie and starts ghosting you. It was such a glorious, thoughtful, empowering, funny story, I really just want to climb inside of this book and live there. And the last book I said that about was my favorite book of all time, Cannery Row. High praise. In 1957 rural Washington state, Eisenhower’s being sworn in for his second term in office, the Russians ready to launch a satellite into space, and dragons are hired for farmwork having forged a no-kill policy with humans. Against her father’s wishes, fifteen-year-old Sarah Dewhurst begins to interact with their laborer dragon, Kazimir. However, Kazimir has his own agenda, needing Sarah for prophecy fulfillment.Este libro se lo regale en Navidad a mi hija. Y en medio de las festividades nos tomo casi dos semanas leerlo. I also have to give a big applause to the main character's mom. Who was wonderful, who tried her best to care for her daughter, to be there for her. And she gave her some great advice when everything went wrong. Seriously, she is one super mom!

At the beginning of the story, it is abundantly clear that Nicole and Astrid are inseparable. They are the closest of friends of the sort that you have in elementary school. Nicole has tagged along with Astrid on Astrid's mom's evening of cultural enlightenment when it meant going to the opera or a modern art exhibit. The roller derby is exotic and quite different, but Nicole's reaction is not quite the same as Astrid's. I really loved the story, and I loved how realistic all the Roller Derby stuff was. It was also highly informative and I learned some new stuff. I would love to see such a Roller Derby competition one day. It must be great fun to see people skate and try to score points. And I love the names that each of the girls in the team had. It made it all so much more interesting, though it was also hilarious at times when you had a cute, quiet girl who had a name like a demon. :) Sophie Escabasse’s art brings to life the story’s emotions as well as the humor and camaraderie. Even readers who know nothing about roller derby will feel comfortable with this book’s easy explanations of the sport and accompanying illustrations—just take a glimpse at the dynamic cover. Roller Girl is a young adult graphic novel written and illustrated by Victoria Jamieson, published by Dial Books for Young Readers in 2015. It is set in contemporary Portland, Oregon and details how the hero, Astrid, becomes a roller derby skater. It was named a Newbery Honor book in 2016. She is currently adapting her original comic book series SLAM! — co-created with Veronica Fish — as an animated half-hour with Rooster Teeth and Minnow Mountain for HBO Max. She is attached to direct (with Paul Franklin) her live-action feature adaptation of her critically-acclaimed graphic novel My Boyfriend is a Bear (co-created with Cat Farris). She is also adapting her comedic memoir NOTES TO BOYS (AND OTHER THINGS I SHOULDN’T SHARE IN PUBLIC) as an animated series for FX’s CAKE.

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But this is not, of course, just about derby. It's about friendship, about growing away from old friends and towards new ones. Astrid's best friend isn't interested in roller derby. She wants to go to ballet camp. And it's part of Astrid's journey in this book to realize that she and Nicole don't need to be attached at the hip. They can be different people. Maybe they won't be friends the way they once were, but that doesn't mean they have to be enemies, either. So the stage is set for the shift so many girls - and maybe boys, though I don't know how this particular piece of boy's life works - experience in their transition from elementary school to junior high/middle school: Losing the best friend while moving out of childhood and into teenagehood, trying to find out who they want to be. Slam! is about two best friends who are derby girls and have to face the challenges of being on different teams and growing apart. If that very bare plot summary doesn't hook you, I don't want to be friends. Most of the girls attending roller derby camp are a little older and more mature than Astrid. The primary exception is Zoey, with whom Astrid begins to bond as a result of the situation with Nicole. Zoey is a newbie at derby skating as well. Astrid can see she is having trouble, but has to admit that even Zoey is getting the hang of things better than her at first.

Jamieson snatches moral victory from the jaws of athletic defeat with warmth, satirical wit, and old-fashioned silliness." — SLJ From the Publisher urn:lcp:rollergirl0000jami:epub:96690cec-5716-42dc-8419-1003bd531fca Foldoutcount 0 Identifier rollergirl0000jami Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4rk62w7q Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780803740167 Lccn 2014011310 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Cyrillic Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.6877 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200047 Openlibrary_edition

ROLLER GIRL follows the story of Astrid as she navigates the hard-hitting worlds of junior roller derby and middle school friendships. It's based on my own struggles fitting in in middle school- as well as the home I found while playing roller derby as an adult.