7.8 /10 1 Votes7.8
Language English Media type Print (hardback) OCLC 900179959 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date September 8, 2015 Pages 267 pages Originally published 8 September 2015 ISBN 9780763673826 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honor Girl is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by Maggie Thrash. The book was first published on September 8, 2015, through Candlewick Press.
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Summary
Honor Girl is the story of writer's Maggie Thrash's first crush at an all-girls summer camp in Kentucky.
Reception and awards
The New York Times Book Review called the story "sweet and obsessive and dead on," and found that "Thrash shows an impressive grasp of the language of comics." In its starred review, Kirkus called the book, "A luminescent memoir not to be missed." Honor Girl also received starred reviews from School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly and was an official "Junior Library Guild Selection" for Fall 2015. Honor Girl was a finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Graphic Novel/ Comics category.