more<\/em> than just a friend, but she’s afraid to come out to the group as lesbian, much less risk her friendship with Abby by confessing how she feels. She finally goes to the school LGBTQ+ club and is surprised who she finds there. So they all have their ups and downs and troubles- with parents, homework, guys, other kids in general- but support each other solidly through all the rough moments. Nice book with great positive messages, even if it did feel a bit over-the-top with the explanations a few times, and a bit awkward with scene switches at others (sometimes I wasn’t quite sure what happened between panels). And I’m still not keen on the art style, but the story was good enough to keep me interested.<\/p>\nPerfect kind of reading for my recovery (still working on that). Funny though, my husband saw this book on the bed and said “what’s that book, it doesn’t look like your usual reading material?” I guess he’s never really noticed that I do<\/em> sometimes read juvenile fiction, graphic novels, even picture books and light silly stuff at times. Maybe he thinks I’m only into the serious novels, classics, nature writing and science . . . I mentioned I’d borrowed it from my younger one and he nodded “Oh, that makes sense” (ha).<\/p>\nBorrowed from the public library (off my kid’s stack).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Graphic novel sequel to Go With the Flow. About four friends in high school. This book picks up right where the other one left off- Brit is recovering from a procedure that addressed her painful cycles- if you haven’t read the first book this might throw you off, but the friends quip in with enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,60,65,87],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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