Little Fish: A Memoir From a Different Kind of Year

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Product Description Beyer, Ramsey From Booklist At the beginning of Beyer’s graphic memoir, she is indeed a big fish in a small pond. A thoughtful, sensitive, well-rounded kid from the “tiny, little farm town of Paw-Paw,” Michigan, she spends her time with friends playing hockey, rocking out in her garage band, and practicing her art. But when college rolls around, she embraces change, heads for the big city, and attends art school in Baltimore. Young Ramsey is immediately stricken by the overwhelming amount of work she must complete in her first year while battling her ideological disagreements with the institution of art school, loneliness while growing apart from her Michigan friends, and homesickness. Beyer’s debut captures her introspection with earnest, appealing black-and-white panels, which chronicle her new adventures with display maps and floor plans and provide a welcome visual break from the typewriter print of her online Livejournal lists and blog posts. Wary college-bound students will find comfort in this sincere and endearing look at freshman year. Grades 8-12. --Courtney Jones Review “Beyer’s debut captures her introspection with earnest, appealing black-and-white panels. . .Wary college-bound students will find comfort in this sincere and endearing look at freshman year.” —Booklist   “An autobiographical graphic pastiche recounts the author's experience of leaving her rural hometown and going to art school in a new city. . .her story is easy to relate to and recommended..." —Kirkus Reviews "Refreshing and unusual . . . . [ Little Fish　is] about the joys of being in a new place as a college freshman. It's about new starts, simple pleasures, rapid friendships created by being in a similar set of circumstances and the mix of stress and exhilaration that a challenging environment creates."　- Rob Clough, High-Low Comics　 "I think it should be everyone's back-to-school read . . . Meeting new friends, falling for someone for the first time, questioning your artistic and life-plan choices, beginning to understand the world outside of your personal bubble-it's all here, in compulsively readable form. I laughed, I nodded along when I recognized my own experiences, and, most of all, I wished I could send it back in time to high school me. I would have felt so much more prepared to conquer freshman year If I'd read this book." - Stephanie Kuehnert, Rookie "Beyer's autobiographical coming-of-age story is a wonderful mix of comics, lists, collages, journal entries and more. Utterly charming!" - Atomic Books"This sweet, charmingly simple graphic novel will resonate with many young adults preparing to go off to school, and maybe even stronger with those who have left their college years behind" - ForeWord Reviews AWARDS AND HONORS: * YALSA Outstanding Book for the College Bound  * IPPY Independent Voice Award Winner  * Texas Library Association (TLA) Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List  * CCBC Choices  * YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Nominee  * CBC Teen Choice Book of the Year Award Nominee  * Cybils Children's & Young Adult Blogger Awards Nominee  * IndieFab Award Finalist PRAISE: "Beyer’s debut captures her introspection with earnest, appealing black-and-white panels. . .Wary college-bound students will find comfort in this sincere and endearing look at freshman year." - Booklist "An autobiographical graphic pastiche recounts the author's experience of leaving her rural hometown and going to art school in a new city. . .her story is easy to relate to and recommended..." - Kirkus Reviews "Refreshing and unusual . . . . [Little Fish is] about the joys of being in a new place as a college freshman. It's about new starts, simple pleasures, rapid friendships created by being in a similar set of circumstances and the mix of stress and exhilaration that a challenging environment creates."@- Rob Clough, High-Low Comics@ "I think it should be everyone's back-to-school read . . . Meeting