Graphic novel memoir
11-year-old Tony loves comics, anime, and video games. But at school, his classmates just see him as a weirdo. He gets bullied a lot. They are messing with him at school and online. This pushes Tony to do something rash. I felt horrible for Tony. I don’t know why people care about what makes others happy. I don’t love video games, but I would never bash someone for liking them. People can be awful. After this event, Tony is sent to a different school. He is, of course, terrified of getting to know anyone or of letting anyone get to know him. But he ends up joining a literature club and meets some sweet but intense classmates.
As the friendship grows, Tony learns about other people, and they learn about him as well. Things are going great, until they aren’t. The students need to pull together and create something amazing, or they might lose all that they worked so hard to build.
It’s a sweet story about being yourself and letting others be themselves, too. It reminded me of the book, My Kind of Crazy. I always told students that they might have to look around for a while before they find their kind of crazy to be friends with or at least understand that everyone is crazy and weird in their own way!
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