

I recommend this book to people who know not to say the bad words that are in this book. Will Emmie get the note back before Joe shows it to the entire school? Or will Emmie be humiliated? As I always say, read the book to find out. Uh oh! You know how I said earlier that Emmie likes someone? Well, the bully, Joe, is friends with that boy that Emmie likes (although he’s nothing like him). Emmie’s love note slips out of her hands when she’s walking out the door. Emmie and Bri start writing love notes about boys they like. This is the part where there’s some yucky-lovey stuff. It’s her second favorite class because Emmie loves to write and the stuff sticks to her brain when she does it… Katie feels sorry for Emmie…Įmmie has a bad time in gym, but Katie has a great time. Katie gives Joe a mean look and he hands the drawing back to Emmie. The class bully, Joe, snatches her drawing away and laughs. When Katie gets into class, everyone is already sitting down and doing stuff. Everybody has someone to talk to except for Emmie… Once Emmie gets into homeroom, everyone is talking. Today, Emmie and Brianna spend their lunch writing deliberately over-the-top love. She loves to draw and is good at it too and has a best friend, Brianna, but her crippling shyness makes school and interacting with, well, anyone, really scary. She’s really organized and has lots of time to relax…Įmmie’s first period is science. Thirteen-year-old Emmie is the quiet girl at school, the one nobody notices. She can’t wait to get her day started! She spends the morning chilling, unlike Emmie. Katie has lots of friends and can’t wait for school. She has a normal morning (a normal morning for Emmie means that no one pays attention to her and she goes to lots of classes which, in her words, are “boring”)…. Her parents go through the usual questions and then it’s off to school for her. Basically, she’s just an average teenage girl. Some call her lucky, but she works hard for everything.

Sometimes she goes to the mall and she meets new people. On weekends, her friends come over and have sleepovers. She likes a lot of fashion, music, and social events. Her parents are pretty cool and they’ve never embarrassed her. Her parents run a candy business and sometimes she’s the taste-tester. She lives in a center house in a neighborhood with all her friends around her. Emmie says that she’s pretty bad at the usual things that get people’s attention. Her nickname is “Bri.” Emmie’s favorite thing to do is draw. Brianna lives exactly nine minutes away by car.

Her dad is really quiet and it doesn’t really say what his job is. The house used to be very loud when her siblings were around. Her parents work in different cities, so that leaves her at the house alone after school while she waits for her parents to come home. It actually says in the book that a mouse and Emmie have a tie for muteness. She used to be loud when she was a baby, but now she’s as quiet as a mouse. Emmie’s story is more like a book than a comic and Katie’s story is more like a comic than a normal book.Įmmie is thirteen and in 7th grade. It switches story points throughout the book, though both have to do with each other. One is named Emmie (that’s actually why I wanted to read this book!) and the other is named Katie. Hi! Do you like to read comics? Well, this book is a comic – sort of.
