This One Summer

This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki, 319 pages

This a graphic novel told from the perspective of two preteen girls, Rose and Windy.  The girls have been summer friends for many years because their families are both at Awago Beach every summer.  This summer is a little different because Rose’s parents have been fighting a lot.  Rose’s mother has been depressed and won’t participate in most family activities.  Rose thinks it has to do with the fact that her mother wants a baby but can’t have one but is angry with her mother anyway.  She and Windy have spent the summer hanging out at a local shop, renting horror films and talking about the older boys who run the shop and their girlfriends.  This is a pretty good realistic story that teen and preteen readers would enjoy.