YA graphic novel where a high school senior lives alone in a tiny studio apartment (her parents had to relocate abroad and didn’t want to disrupt her final year). She seems to spend the entire book going to parties- at first because wants to connect with another girl- but gets very drunk and steals a bunch of stuff from the house. Afterwards she meets the girl and they have an instant attraction- and the other girl is a real kleptomaniac, though it doesn’t become clear why until much later in the story. Well, Ella wants to make things right and return all the stolen items- she’s shocked to find out they were in turn stolen from others– so the two girls plan to go uninvited to all these parties over the rest of the school year, sneak each item back into the house where it belongs. They almost succeed. What an odd premise. And all the scenes of drunkenness not really something I want my preteen reading (borrowed this one off their stack again). Although it does portray tons of negative consequences from all that. Kind of charming story in its own way, though I was continually distracted by how BIG Ella’s ears are.
Borrowed from the public library.
