Telgemeier clearly remembers how it feels to be fourteen, as well as how it feels to have and be a sister, and she adeptly relays those emotions and experience though accessible dialogue and expressive depiction of characters. That journey is the anchor for this graphic novel memoir, which flashes back through the girls’ relationship, contentious from its earliest days. Now she’s fourteen, and she and Amara still fight frequently while they occasionally establish common ground, such as their mutual mixed feelings about the arrival of their little brother, more often they bicker over colored pencils, pet snakes, and punch bugs-a real problem when the girls, their brother, and their mom take a road trip from San Francisco to Colorado for a family reunion. At four years old, Raina wanted a new sister, badly-and then she got one.
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