After PE, Emmie goes to English class, which she has with her crush, Tyler Ross.
In the comic strip, Katie goes to PE and has a blast because she is in great shape and all her friends are in that class, too. Katie feels bad for Emmie, but she thinks that the girl needs to stand up for herself.Įmmie goes to PE, which she hates because she is not athletic. She watches as Joe Lungo, a bully, steals Emmie’s notebook and laughs at the drawing of Katie. In the comic strip, Katie goes into science class and sits with all her friends. She draws in her notebook so that she has something to focus on besides her anxiety. In the comic strip, Katie goes to homeroom and sits with all her friends, who tell her that a boy likes her.Īfter homeroom, Emmie stops at the bathroom where she fantasizes about a vacation from school and then she goes to science class where no one talks to her. Now that they are in middle school, they spend a lot of time apart and their friendship is strained. Homeroom is the only class they have together because Brianna is gifted and placed into all the advanced classes. Emmie meets her best friend since kindergarten, Brianna, before homeroom and they walk to class together.
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In the comic-strip, Katie arrives at school full of happiness and joy as everyone moves aside so she can reach her locker and her large group of friends. She is frightened to tell two boys standing in front of her locker to move because she is so shy and so afraid of talking to new people, especially boys. On Monday morning, Emmie wakes up and goes to school. In the first comic book section, Katie introduces herself as a beautiful, athletic, popular girl with a picture-perfect life. Emmie spends a lot of time alone, and in this time she discovers that she loves to draw. She is 13 years old and she lives with her two distant parents who are revamping their careers now that Emmie’s siblings have all moved out and gone on to college. But Emmie is a main character who is simply quiet and unremarkable, neither bullied or popular, but simply invisible.Īs the novel starts in earnest, Emmie introduces herself. In the prelogue, Emmie talks about all the YA books that she has read, and said that most of them feature a main character who is an outcast for a specific reason and is bullied because of that reason. The novel begins with a “prelogue” in which Emmie tells us that she has turned into a puddle of slime, and that she will explain how this happened and why. All of the action is told in colorful panels that feature captions, thought-bubbles, and dialogue-bubbles. Katie’s sections resemble a traditional comic book. Emmie’s sections resemble a traditional novel with lots of white space and black words, interspersed with small sketches that add to the narrative. The novel seems to rotate its point of view between quiet and timid Emmie and the perfect and beautiful Katie, but in the end we learn that Katie is a fictional cartoon character created by Emmie, who draws comics in her notebook in order to help her deal with the pressures and stresses of being a girl in middle school. Invisible Emmie is a graphic novel that is told in the first person by the main character, Emmie.
Ages 8 12.The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Libenson, Terri. A well-executed twist will have readers flipping back to see what they missed while cheering the strides made by Libenson's no-longer-invisible heroine. Katie rises to her defense, but Emmie eventually learns to speak up for herself, realizing that embarrassment isn't the end of the world and being social isn't as impossible as she thought. Emmie and Katie share a crush on classmate Tyler, and when a sappy love note Emmie writes to Tyler as a joke is made public, Emmie is humiliated.
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Katie's chapters, by contrast, are big, splashy panels that reflect her outgoing personality ("I'm just your average teenage girl," she says after being offered movie roles and the crown of homecoming queen). With frizzy hair and hunched shoulders, Emmie shows up in tiny vignettes, sandwiched between blocks of text, that make her look as small and insignificant as she feels. School is stressful for shy, quiet Emmie Katie, meanwhile, is breezily popular, confident, and beautiful. In her first children's book, cartoonist Libenson (The Pajama Diaries) offers strikingly different visions of seventh grade through two very dissimilar narrators.
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