Canadian indie rock duo Tegan & Sara is one of my favorite bands, and when I heard they were teaming up with the amazing artist Tillie Walden for this middle school graphic memoir, I knew I'd have to check it out. (After all, I loved their adult non-graphic memoir, High School.)
This one presents the trials and tribulations of being a girl in seventh grade, switching to a new school, finding new friends, puberty, and all the good and bad stuff that comes with it — as well as managing all of that with a twin sister. While the Quins went through this back in the early 1990s, I appreciate that they reset their junior high years in the 2020s, as that will certainly help the kids who read this connect with it (cell phones and Taylor Swift and Netflix certainly have more impact with today's kids than corded wall phones and Nirvana and VCRs).
I really dug this book, and appreciated the clever color-coding way that Walden distinguished between the twins in her artwork — Tegan is blue, Sara is red, and most pages that take place outside of their bedrooms are a wash of pale purple. There's another book on the horizon (focusing on eighth grade), and you can bet I'll pick up that one too.
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