Chiggers
Chiggers
Hope Larson
Summer camp is one of those experiences so weighed down with expectations as to render it almost unbearable. Whether or not one has attended before it has attained such a idealized state in our imaginations that one knows up front it is nearly impossible that it will be as fun as we hope. Plus, there is the potential of homesickness, the difficulty of forming trustworthy friendships in such a short time period, and if there are boys around...the added possibility of romance is almost too much to even think about. Hope Larson captures all this and more in this sweet graphic novel that takes place in that tender time between middle school and high school, childhood and adulthood. With just right doses of angst and magic, Chiggers is an all too brief get-away with terrific how-to craft bits thrown in to make a perfect summer story.
Highly recommended for middle school and up.