Honor Girl (2015)

Synopsis

Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She’s from Atlanta, she’s never kissed a guy, she’s into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl, and Maggie’s savant-like proficiency at the camp’s rifle range is the only thing keeping her heart from exploding. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it’s too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle, let alone to understand.

From: Candlewick Press

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Awards

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics - Finalist
2016 Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Award Winner — Favorite Graphic Novel/Book
2015 VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Award Honor
2016 Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards Shortlist — Favorite Comic

Reviews

Starred review: “A luminescent memoir not to be missed. (Graphic memoir. 13 & up)” (Source: Kirkus Reviews)

Starred review: “This is the kind of memoir that stays with readers for days. Ages 14–up.” (Source: Publishers Weekly)

Interviews

BookPage: “Maggie Thrash: The summer everything changed”

School Library Journal: ““Honor Girl” Graphic Novelist Maggie Thrash on Identity and Girls’ Spaces“