{"id":532369,"date":"2010-04-18T08:55:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=9142"},"modified":"2010-04-18T08:55:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T12:55:19","slug":"smile-by-raina-telgemeier-with-color-by-stephanie-yue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532369","title":{"rendered":"Smile by Raina Telgemeier with color by Stephanie Yue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For anyone and everyone who has knows a middle-grader with braces (or about the get braces), this is the book of choice to share. “I’ve been telling people about what happened to my teeth ever since I knocked them out in sixth grade,” writes veteran comics-maker Raina Telgemeier<\/a> in her ending “Author’s Note.” “The story had plenty of strange twists and turns, and I found myself saying, ‘Wait, it gets worse!’ a lot. Eventually, I realized I needed to get it all down on paper.”<\/p>\n

So here’s the resulting colorful tale. Sixth-grade braces are bad enough \u2013 “You’re gonna be a metal-mouth!!” \u2013\u00a0Raina’s younger sister screams from the back of the \u00a0family car. But indeed, it gets worse … far worse.<\/p>\n

Racing a friend to her front door, Raina falls and loses her two front teeth \u2013 actually, one falls out and the other one gets so far jammed into her gumline as to all but disappear. Not to give you TOO much information … but thus begins Raina’s quest from middle school to high to finally regain her smile …<\/p>\n

Could that dental odyssey marked by surgeries, root canals, headgear, and tiny rubber bands have happened at a worse time than smack in the midst of adolescence with changing bodies, fickle friends, first crushes, makeovers, basketball tryouts, not to mention a major earthquake smack in the middle? Raina certainly has more to deal with than your average teenager, but all that angst certainly gave her plenty of good material for a poignantly entertaining coming-of-age story \u2013 in full color even!<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2010<\/p>\n

Filed under: ..Middle Grade Readers<\/a>, .Graphic Novels\/Memoir\/Manga\/Manwha<\/a>, .Memoir<\/a>, .Nonfiction<\/a>, Nonethnic-specific<\/a> Tagged: Coming-of-age<\/a>, Family<\/a>, Friendship<\/a>, Girl power<\/a>, Health<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For anyone and everyone who has knows a middle-grader with braces (or about the get braces), this is the book of choice to share. “I’ve been telling people about what happened to my teeth ever since I knocked them out in sixth grade,” writes veteran comics-maker Raina Telgemeier in her ending “Author’s Note.” “The story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}